This weekend, has been a very much different experience to the usual, and has helped to increase my spirits a fair bit, but prepare yourselfs for a tale of oddness and insanity.

It was high noon, and the battlefeld was set, at my request - the gibson stepped out from the side of his parents jeep, and greeted me heartily as we began to take his PC, in pieces upstairs to my attic fortress.

(Yeah - i invited Edd down for a visit, and we had allready agreed to lan things up, so he brought his PC and i aqquired furniture to put everything together on)

Shortly afterwards, the machine was complete, and the network produced, many cans of Relentless had been consumed, and many cigarettes smoked in stress, but we finally came around, figured out the network and the no-disc patches we needed to play, and our first game of Command and Conquer 3 - Kanes Wrath commenced.

It was a long, bloody conflict, hundreds died on each side, and an entire city was nuked into nothing more than 3 meters of scorched glass, which my 40 foot tall titan battlemechs pounded over, firing barrage after barrage of railgun fire on gibsons defences, it was not long until he fell.

(We basically shared a copy of his C&C 3 Kanes wrath for the weekend, and the new units are AWESOME! EA finally saw the light and brought the Titana nd Wolverine mechanized units back, which came in as the core of my strategy, the Scrin recieved new ground units - in the form of the Multipede, which alone, is reasonably able to hold its own, but - when fully upgraded and in groups of 6 or more, are an unstopable force of destruction, and the Brotherhood of Nod recieved some interesting new infantry I havent yet tried along with a rather odd portable turret vehicle)

After a few hours of Lannage, however - a problem occoured, Gibsons hard drive went nuts up, and windows refused to load, in our search for a new OS, i came up with the idea that saved us, eventually.

Basically - we downloaded Ubuntu and imaged the ISO onto disc, and installed it onto gibsons PC, a few hours later, we had WINE (A windows emulator for Linux) running, and afew hours after that, we had our first match of Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War.

The weekend has been nothing more than a digital swath of destruction, I also got to watch Stargate SG-1 "The Ark Of Truth" which was, dare i say - awesomeness condenced into an hour and a half movie, and introduced Gibson to Battlestar Galactica.

Ever since sunday afternoon, we have been nerds, willingly existing in a small dark room, surrounded by non-natural TFT monitor/Television light, existing off of pasta, pizza, scotch eggs, Relentless and cigarettes - and oh yeah - 4 hours of sleep a night.

It has been, dare I say it - AWESOME!

Now if you excuse me, i have a lot of water to consume before the sheer caffine level cause’s me to have a kidney BOULDER (i drank far to much to have meer stones) and settle down to calm net surfing, and then a swift game of Kanes Wrath single player, or parhaps 40k DOW . . . hrm . . . or I could watch stargate again . . . and then, eventually sleep (Im dog tired now)

Laters all!

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