I quaked last night across the lan with space and james… We’re teaching james TF. Started him out as hwguy so he wouldn’t have to slow down when he changed to a different class. Moved him to soldier for a while, then pyro… He likes being zippy.

I was pulling off some trick stuff against those two. Space was giving me a run for the money, though. He was real tough as demoman last night, and he played medic for a little while too (didn’t pound me quite as badly that way)…

It’d basically go like this… I’d get charged by both of them, I’d maybe toss a rocket or a gren at james to distract him while I went after space (who was my real concern), hopefully whack space, then clean up what was left of james…

My favorite skirmish was in the entryway of 2fort5r… I was battling them both, and I’d tossed hit them both with a couple rockets. I went into reload and if I didn’t finish them I was dead, but I was priming a gren… I hoped, I waited, and just as they draw close enough to each other, I tossed the gren and splattered them both.

I love it when a plan comes together.

Oh, I think james did pretty well, by the way… He has a few things to work on, but its stuff *everyone* has trouble with… moving around enough while fighting, and watching out for grens…

Check it out, I put up my old page o’ tackiness!

I need to find a way to make bucks off my site… that’d be sweet. *sigh*

I saw Dark Angel again tonight… it wasn’t nearly as cool as the first episode. It was entertaining, but not spectacular in any regards.

“Hi, I’m calling about your resume on monster.com…” Uh huh… did you READ it?

I suppose someone might put down that their objective is a career in linux system administration but really want to become an insurance agent… I, however, am not that person.

Just got off the phone and sent my resume to some headhunter guy… He’s looking for unix/linux admins (I really need to toy with bsd and solaris around here…), and has a job where they’re looking for someone three days ago… He asked me how much I was looking for and I told him I wasn’t sure what I was worth… he said he’s just put me down for 2 million… I told him that’d be fine. 😉

So this job he has lined up pays 40… which is cool, ’cause I was looking at around 40-45k… but then he said that was 40 an hour and it’d work out to around 100k a year… I told him I thought I could live with that. ;D

So, yeah… ;D

I think I need to start waking up a bit earlier… This 5am-1pm sleep pattern just doesn’t look too good.

Oh, I spent some more time playing quake again today… My second day of quake in months, and I’m gettin’ my groove back… I had some fun on this server, pounding a couple snipers… it was a fairly empty server running 2fort5. I had this neat run where I’d run up to the enemy sniper deck, take out a couple snipers, drop down, clear them out of the entry room, then back up to the sniper deck again…

For this I got called a camper repeatedly (complete with a four line, ascii drawing of a tent)… Which kinda ruined the fun… I have a hard time seeing how I was camping what with the running all over the map thing, never staying in the same spot… But I guess it makes people feel better to justify getting pounded by blaming it on bad conduct…

It actually was kinda fun when the tent guy switched to soldier and started pounding on me… He was better than I was, and I got fragged a lot, but it was fun… then my teammate started complaining that the tent guy was using auto-aim… I can’t say for sure whether he was or not, but all his rockets did nail exactly at my feet, never going astray, and he did have some damn good reflexes…

If he was using auto-aim, that sucks… But it was good practice in any case… I don’t think I’m a great quake player, I’m decent… I know there are tons of people out there that I don’t stand a chance against… I’ve been pounded really hard by scouts and medics of all things over the last two days… but its been fun. And that’s what matters.