Macintosh @ MindSay

My weekend was...annoying, weird, irritating and sort of fun, just all at differing times.

Friday night, I went to my work outing at the Thunderbolts game. I really didn't want to go because I hate work outings but I felt obligated since my one boss that I like paid for everything and others bailed out on her at the last minute. The game itself was sub par. It's hard to root for a team you have no interest in. However, the seats were good. I spent most of the night talking with my coworker's girlfriend, who ended up being very cool. The evening ended with a drunk coworker who is 53 years of age calling me a "fucking loser" through her slurred drunkenness because I didn't want to drive back to my work's hood for more alcohol consumption. Sadly, she is kind of right, even though I wanted to toss her down a flight of stairs for saying it out loud.

Saturday, I spent the whole of the day playing games on my Mac. I went to dinner with my sister, her husband and our friend but after that, it was mostly TV watching. The new Bill Maher special was good though.

Today, it was a frothy drive to Fry's followed by some baseball action. I did OK, hit a complete bomb and had a few other OK hits. All in all, I had the most fun playing ball, as per usual. The rest was all typical routine stuff which is starting to get to me. I go back to therapy this Tuesday and let me tell you, I need it. Once my therapist went on the DL 6 weeks ago, I thought I would be good to go. Turns out, I've been wrong. I've done some things I'm not proud of at all and they are starting to bother me. Hopefully, I can start putting them behind me completely or it's time to take it to the streets.....Paul Kearsey-style.

I cannot wait to get this weekend started!!! Aside from doing nothing, I have a whole lot of nothing going on. Well, except homework. Yeah.

Tonight, I'm going to experience some independent league action at Hawk Ford Field. My work reserved a luxury suite for tonight's game and wow....nobody is going. There will literally be like 10-12 people there tonight instead of the 25 my boss paid for to attend. At least I get to scope out the game from a box with free food and drinks. Should be OK.

Beyond that, I'm excited about watching Flight Of The Conchords on Sunday night and getting my new Mac games this weekend. I got Railroad Tycoon 3 and Rise Of Nations: Gold. Also, I got the BBC documentary set Planet Earth yesterday. It's good. Real good.

If this entry doesn't spell out "Guess who is a loser?", I don't know what would.

Playlist For The Weak End (oooo....play on words)
Chevelle "Vena Sera"
Isis "In The Absence Of Truth"
Pet Shop Boys "West End Girls"
Vision "In The Blink Of An Eye"
Black Sabbath "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath"

I sort of wish I had some amazing news to report via the past 4-5 days but alas, I have basically nothing.

During the past weekend, I made my way to Fry's another time to get something for school. OK, actually, it was Unreal Tournament 2004 for Macintosh but still, I needed the level editor. So, I walked around aimlessly for like 90 minutes, getting completely dizzy from the vast expanse of tech-nerd product that they have available for all. I could seriously spend $1 million dollars in there in one trip. Resisting the urge to go buck wild once again, I walked out with my intended item and a copy of Civilization IV for Mac as well. Next up, Age Of Empires III.

So, I get home with enough afternoon left to load Unreal, mess around in a few arenas and then play with the editor. Well, I can't find the editor anywhere on the disc or on my hard drive so I guess life likes to mock me. Still, there is something eerily satisfying about completely annihilating other people in Deathmatch. Hearing the sweet sounds of blood and guts flying everywhere as I mow down NPC opponents is just ballet-esque.

The rest of the time between then and now consisted of some fun baseball action, playing World Of Warcraft and watching some quality cinematic achievements of others. Yeah....amazing.

So yeah, I seem to have haphazardly solved (temporarily) my software snafus. First, I called Macintosh tech support for advice on loading Vista. While there were no clear cut solutions available at this time, the guy actually gave me some practical tips on how to find a solution or suggested that I download the update of Boot Camp when it becomes available in May. Amazing. Macintosh's tech support was like a complete 180 from Microsoft's. I got to speak to someone who was actually helpful and not in over their heads. So yeah, why does this world love Windows so much?

Next, I decided to experiment a bit with my software using Rosetta to see if the OS update I downloaded Tuesday night would be helpful. I installed Maya and it seems to work just fine. Granted, I have yet to attempt to render a file or do any major work but it opens and seems to run as advertised. Adobe Studio also runs with no problems. So again, Windows? Why? Seriously....why?

Now mind you, I have considered buying an inexpensive Windows laptop in the future for possible gaming usage only after I graduate but even then, I have Xbox 360. The only reason I would want to be a PC would be to play games like Age Of Empires and other RTS apps. Then again, if companies made more RTS apps available for consoles that were good, PC's would be totally useless to me.

Just for the record, this is not a knock on people who use Windows at all. I'm simply saying that if you have problems, call a friend. Don't call Microsoft because you will want to murder several elderly neighbors.