Thursday, May 19, 2005
Greetings Friend
Alright, alright, serious non-esoteric update.
Things are going ok. I have recently become readdicted to an old favorite game of mine - Alpha Centauri. Daren and I have played for hours at school after he 'hacked' (i used the term loosely, more like 'was granted access to') into the admin accounts and installed Alpha Cen. In addition, I've finally become a RuneScape member and have basically split my time between those two games when I'm playing games. For anyone looking for an on-line RPG, I recommend Runescape. If you play games purely for the graphics, this game doesn't have much to offer but if you're looking for something beyond straight combat oriented, this game is for you. You can mine your own ores, you can cut your own trees and you can fish for fish. Then you can do any number of things with the products of those activities - you can smelt your ore into bars then smith those bars into weapons, armor, arrowheads, knives, etc, etc, etc; you can cook your fish and eat it to gain health, you can make potions, you can fletch arrows and/or bows, you can make fires to cook your fish on (or other food as you find it in the game), you can create magic rings amulets, you can cast spells, you can gain prayer levels which boost your stats, you can steal from various NPCs. On top of it, the whole game is a large RPG. There are generally between 300 and 2000 people on each world (300 in the low hours, 2000 is the max) with whom you can interact, trade items, hire to do jobs, buy things, sell things. If you don't want to fish for your fish, you can buy them uncooked. Ditto everything else. And if you just want to be smashy, smashy; then you can buy things from other players to support your combat efforts (not to mention there are various NPC shops around the world that sell things - they have limited stocks however) - It's a game with something for anyone who enjoys RPGing; there's also a good deal of quests to complete which take you all over the world and gain you experience, cool items and access to different features. It's free but you can also buy a membership for $5 american a year which gives you access to a much larger area and ad-free windows.
So yeah - if anyone wants to try it out - http://runescape.com is the place to be. My ID is darkelfpoet, so add me to your friends and I'll hook you up with some free stuff (lord knows I have too much).
On top of that, Alpha Cen is also a cool game that I recommend - btw if anyone knows how to get the PvP over the 'net to work, drop me a line? Dragon and I cannot figure it out. (grrs)
Alright, in non-computer related news.
I took on a new tutoree today, another one of Sarah's brothers. It's kindof odd because her whole family likes me, even this brother of hers who previously disliked me. *shrugs* but hey - they're now paying me $40 and starting in a week or two that goes up to $80/week until the end of exams. Not too shabby.
I will of course be going job hunting sometime this weekend. My 58 copies of my resume won't spread themselves and if I can, I'll print more tomorrow morning sometime. I'm really past dickering if I want to work somewhere, I just want to earn some serious money as opposed to the bits here and there tutoring brings me. Not that tutoring is going to stop, I'll keep as much of it going on as possible, but it's not really enough - not with so few hours.
Timmins quickly approaches. In fact I'll be leaving for the bus depot in less than a week as of right now (about an hour ago). Good news, my parents are going away on their 25th anniversary next week. So we have the house to ourselves for three days (or rather my brothers do). Good news for a few reasons - my parents have been fighting more and more often and it's a little worrisome, but hopefully a few days together and away from us kids will help them a lot. They leave Wednesday morning and are coming back Friday night next week. Apparently Chris will be in charge often as I'm at PTY Wednesday (and buying tickets), I'm tutoring for about 4 hours Thursday and I'm leaving Friday night. Daren has apparently made the decision not to go to Timmins with me... kindof sad, but I'm sure I'll have a good time even without him. I'm fairly excited but also a bit nervous - I've had some things on my mind and while I don't want to go into them at the moment (letting them solidify plus I want to talk with Freya in person about them) they're... good but a little nervewracking for me. Nothing wrong though, just a decision I've made and plan to go through with that will probably make a good number of people happy (not why I made it but hey, if people are happy with me so much the better).
14 year olds with cellphones. Why do they need them? It's such a bloody crazy thing to do. I've been considering getting one myself but only because I'm at school 8am-7pm most days and I'm out of the house alot (especially if working and with tutoring). Thus a cellphone would be a huge advantage for people trying to contact me. But 14year olds? They spend barely 7 hours a day at school (And while they are cellphones must be in their lockers during classes, thus they're really only usable for an hour). Some kids, if their parents need to call them often, I can see a reason. But really - they're everywhere. It's kids having cellphones for the sake of having a cellphone and for the extreme convience of not having to find a payphone (in Philemon? There's like four.)
Anyways, I need to talk to Andy now. I'll catch y'all later (and see what I can do about updating more often)
*hugs to Andy*
Laterz all
Things are going ok. I have recently become readdicted to an old favorite game of mine - Alpha Centauri. Daren and I have played for hours at school after he 'hacked' (i used the term loosely, more like 'was granted access to') into the admin accounts and installed Alpha Cen. In addition, I've finally become a RuneScape member and have basically split my time between those two games when I'm playing games. For anyone looking for an on-line RPG, I recommend Runescape. If you play games purely for the graphics, this game doesn't have much to offer but if you're looking for something beyond straight combat oriented, this game is for you. You can mine your own ores, you can cut your own trees and you can fish for fish. Then you can do any number of things with the products of those activities - you can smelt your ore into bars then smith those bars into weapons, armor, arrowheads, knives, etc, etc, etc; you can cook your fish and eat it to gain health, you can make potions, you can fletch arrows and/or bows, you can make fires to cook your fish on (or other food as you find it in the game), you can create magic rings amulets, you can cast spells, you can gain prayer levels which boost your stats, you can steal from various NPCs. On top of it, the whole game is a large RPG. There are generally between 300 and 2000 people on each world (300 in the low hours, 2000 is the max) with whom you can interact, trade items, hire to do jobs, buy things, sell things. If you don't want to fish for your fish, you can buy them uncooked. Ditto everything else. And if you just want to be smashy, smashy; then you can buy things from other players to support your combat efforts (not to mention there are various NPC shops around the world that sell things - they have limited stocks however) - It's a game with something for anyone who enjoys RPGing; there's also a good deal of quests to complete which take you all over the world and gain you experience, cool items and access to different features. It's free but you can also buy a membership for $5 american a year which gives you access to a much larger area and ad-free windows.
So yeah - if anyone wants to try it out - http://runescape.com is the place to be. My ID is darkelfpoet, so add me to your friends and I'll hook you up with some free stuff (lord knows I have too much).
On top of that, Alpha Cen is also a cool game that I recommend - btw if anyone knows how to get the PvP over the 'net to work, drop me a line? Dragon and I cannot figure it out. (grrs)
Alright, in non-computer related news.
I took on a new tutoree today, another one of Sarah's brothers. It's kindof odd because her whole family likes me, even this brother of hers who previously disliked me. *shrugs* but hey - they're now paying me $40 and starting in a week or two that goes up to $80/week until the end of exams. Not too shabby.
I will of course be going job hunting sometime this weekend. My 58 copies of my resume won't spread themselves and if I can, I'll print more tomorrow morning sometime. I'm really past dickering if I want to work somewhere, I just want to earn some serious money as opposed to the bits here and there tutoring brings me. Not that tutoring is going to stop, I'll keep as much of it going on as possible, but it's not really enough - not with so few hours.
Timmins quickly approaches. In fact I'll be leaving for the bus depot in less than a week as of right now (about an hour ago). Good news, my parents are going away on their 25th anniversary next week. So we have the house to ourselves for three days (or rather my brothers do). Good news for a few reasons - my parents have been fighting more and more often and it's a little worrisome, but hopefully a few days together and away from us kids will help them a lot. They leave Wednesday morning and are coming back Friday night next week. Apparently Chris will be in charge often as I'm at PTY Wednesday (and buying tickets), I'm tutoring for about 4 hours Thursday and I'm leaving Friday night. Daren has apparently made the decision not to go to Timmins with me... kindof sad, but I'm sure I'll have a good time even without him. I'm fairly excited but also a bit nervous - I've had some things on my mind and while I don't want to go into them at the moment (letting them solidify plus I want to talk with Freya in person about them) they're... good but a little nervewracking for me. Nothing wrong though, just a decision I've made and plan to go through with that will probably make a good number of people happy (not why I made it but hey, if people are happy with me so much the better).
14 year olds with cellphones. Why do they need them? It's such a bloody crazy thing to do. I've been considering getting one myself but only because I'm at school 8am-7pm most days and I'm out of the house alot (especially if working and with tutoring). Thus a cellphone would be a huge advantage for people trying to contact me. But 14year olds? They spend barely 7 hours a day at school (And while they are cellphones must be in their lockers during classes, thus they're really only usable for an hour). Some kids, if their parents need to call them often, I can see a reason. But really - they're everywhere. It's kids having cellphones for the sake of having a cellphone and for the extreme convience of not having to find a payphone (in Philemon? There's like four.)
Anyways, I need to talk to Andy now. I'll catch y'all later (and see what I can do about updating more often)
*hugs to Andy*
Laterz all
// posted by Dep @ 9:50:00 p.m.
