{"id":1847,"date":"2010-08-09T15:20:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T20:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2010-08-09T15:20:07","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T20:20:07","slug":"3-weeks-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/?p=1847","title":{"rendered":"3 Weeks of Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s all I have left. I had 3 weeks in May too but they seemed so short. I&#8217;m heading to San Antonio and Austin later this week to hang out with the family and to a friend&#8217;s BBQ so should be nice and relaxing. Lots of Rock Band, eating, possibly movie watching going on. I may try to read all of Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood or watch it on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/show?p=cfjHtZ1gVmw\">youtube<\/a> maybe. My remaining to do list is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Upgrade computer\n<ul>\n<li>Add 300GB Velociraptor hard drive<\/li>\n<li>Move to Windows 7 64 bit edition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Beat Borderlands<\/li>\n<li>Beat Super Mario Galaxy 1<\/li>\n<li>Beat Dragon Quest 9<\/li>\n<li>Get all the Starcraft 2 single player achievements<\/li>\n<li>Catch up on various movies (Toy Story 3 perhaps)<\/li>\n<li>Clean apartment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The computer upgrading is going to be a huge pain as I&#8217;m moving from 32 bit Vista to 64 bit Win7. This means a full format and reinstalling all my junk. My actual main concern is iTunes as my library is scattered across 2 drives so in order to be sneaky I have to preserve some of the file structure so when it opens the library file it&#8217;ll still see everything in the same spot. I also just downloaded and installed 30GB of Steam games so it will suck to re-download all of that. I&#8217;m hoping to cheat by just moving the Steam folder and seeing if I can still launch games.<\/p>\n<p>My secondary concern is that I should probably be using the velociraptor as my primary drive but due to how the upgrade process will probably play out, I will probably be stuck using my current drive as the windows drive and I&#8217;ll install all my games onto the raptor.<\/p>\n<p>It will be so confusing in the end. I&#8217;m currently setup on a 2 drive system. One 300GB internal with all programs installed, one 750GB external where data files are kept. The future plan is going to be a 3 drive system where the slow 300GB drive will house Windows\/regular apps, the fast 300GB drive will house games, and the external will still just be the data\/backup. I actually have another external I use to backup the external drive as well. It seems kind of crazy how much storage I have for practically nothing important.<\/p>\n<p>Borderlands I&#8217;m somewhere between 1\/3 and 1\/2 way through. It&#8217;s pretty fun and great so far but on PC it does feel like a port of the console version. The menus are a little clunky to work with the mouse. The game does this rollercoaster in difficulty at times where you&#8217;re breezing through because you have such awesome guns, then you hit a new area and it&#8217;s outrageous because now everyone has like 9x the health. I played a little single player and the difficulty is laughable at best. Coop is the way to go with this one.<\/p>\n<p>Super Mario Galaxy I&#8217;m about 2\/3 of the way through and I&#8217;m just not motivated to play the rest. It&#8217;s fun, but because I&#8217;m playing in very erratic spurts I&#8217;m not drawn to it. Lack of achievements also makes me want to get the minimum number of stars and call it a day. It&#8217;s strange, I want to play SMG2 so bad because of it&#8217;s incredible reviews, but SMG1 likewise had incredible reviews. So maybe I&#8217;m just building it all up too much.<\/p>\n<p>Dragon Quest 9 I only just started. I&#8217;m determined to like it. Billions of people love this series and I don&#8217;t know why I can&#8217;t get into it. I always give these games 2-3 hours then stop playing. I really liked Dragon Quest 8, got stuck, then quit. Again I only gave it about 3 hours or so. I started 9 and it seems enjoyable but very classic turn based RPG. My recent experiences with Mass Effect have really shown me the differences in Eastern\/Western RPG implementation. With ME2 being so cutting edge, it&#8217;s strange to feel like I&#8217;m sliding backwards when I play Dragon Quest 9. Again though, the game has exceptional reviews and I have to find out why.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t talked about it much but I do love Starcraft 2. It really is the game I&#8217;ve been waiting for for 12 years. You can check my profile here: <a href=\"http:\/\/us.battle.net\/sc2\/en\/buynow?ref=\/sc2\/en\/profile\/406831\/1\/Shockwave\/\">Shockwave.759<\/a>. I&#8217;m drawn to achievements for some reason. Maybe it&#8217;s that feeling that when I was finally able to kill Emerald and Ruby weapon in Final Fantasy 7 all I could do was talk about it. Who knows if people believe me. With achievements now you have this record of\u00a0permanence. Some games do horrible things with achievements but I find that Starcraft 2 hits just the right note with them. I&#8217;ve finished over 75% of the single player campaign achievements and I&#8217;m determined to get all of them. I&#8217;m almost NEVER inclined to replay a game, especially if it lacks new game + features, but I&#8217;ll gladly replay SC2 to knock out some of the more elaborate achievements. My first run through I chose options\/tech upgrades on my needs, but the next runs will be more achievement focused.<\/p>\n<p>I have a backlog of movies I need to churn through in addition to TV shows and anime to watch. I lost my DVR due to my cable company moving to all digital broadcast which cut out my computer&#8217;s TV tuner, which really sucks because the tuner has a digital tuner but Windows Media Center doesn&#8217;t pick up the lineup. I&#8217;m hoping that the upgrade to Win7 will fix this but who knows. I would like to see Toy Story 3 and Despicable Me but I&#8217;m guessing I&#8217;ll only catch those when they hit DVD.<\/p>\n<p>Rex and Mattie will be 9 (I think?) on Saturday and I won&#8217;t even be here. Hopefully they don&#8217;t have a big party while I&#8217;m out. This is most assuredly the longest I&#8217;ve ever had cats. Mostly because as a kid we had indoor\/outdoor cats and they would eventually end up roadkill somewhere along the line. I never let my cats out for fear of instant car death scenarios. However since I&#8217;m graduating soon and plan on moving I feel like my time with them is soon coming to an end. I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;ll be giving them to my parents but I&#8217;m not really sure if that&#8217;s for the best. I feel like I should give them to someone locally but the likelihood that I&#8217;ll ever see them again drops off substantially. The situation I&#8217;m trying to avoid is having to have another roommate that will deal with my cats, but if I can live alone then I&#8217;ll probably keep them.<\/p>\n<p>I actually have so many more things I&#8217;d like to do but I doubt I&#8217;ll even have the time to get to half of this list. My fall semester is loaded with more classes than I&#8217;ve ever taken and they all range from moderate to hard with maybe only 1 class of busy work. I am however looking forward to it for some reason. I think by the time May rolls around I&#8217;ll finally be able to put it all behind me and take my next steps feeling like a new person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s all I have left. I had 3 weeks in May too but they seemed so short. I&#8217;m heading to San Antonio and Austin later this week to hang out with the family and to a friend&#8217;s BBQ so should be nice and relaxing. Lots of Rock Band, eating, possibly movie watching going on. 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