Wow, am I happy that it's the weekend. Yesterday, I didn't really do much, I think I left my room maybe a total of 5 times haha. I just sat around, played with web stuff, TeHGeekGirl.com, Photoshop, chatted with friends and watched TV shows and movies. I started watching the second season of Hani Yori Dango. I get so addicted to that stuff that I can't just watch one episode at a time haha. I am on like episode 5 now. It's so good haha. I just wish that Makino would tell Tsukasa how she really felt cause he just came out and told her how she feels. Every time they see each other though she just yells at him and stuff. I really think they should just be together as much as I love Rui, I dunno haha, its hard.

Anyways, I also finally got my hands on this erotic film that I've been trying to get ever since Violet Blue mentioned it on her (now defunct) podcast a couple years ago. I dunno why I didn't get it sooner, I guess I searched for it but came up empty handed so I just forgot about it. It's actually not as great as I thought it was. It's kind of like a little interview and then they have sex, for what reason I don't know haha. I guess it turned me on a little bit, but it was unusual.

So after that, I think I watched a couple more episodes of Hana Yori Dango. It's funny cause I am actually starting to understand some of the words and phrases. I love it. I love Japanese. I'm working on my writing right now. I love writing Japanese, it's so much fun! I've really just got to get it all down, at least hiragana. I'm up to ma, mi, mu, me, mo. So that's...like...30 characters or so. I also need to just work on basic dialog.

I've also been busy with my CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate), every time I type in Cisco, I type in Circa, as in Circa Survive haha. Bad habit. But this past week ltdan  and I had our first study/review session and I think I did pretty well. I love how I can actually understand most of this Cisco stuff, it amazes me. But I guess when you love something you will actually put in the time to learn it and hopefully become relatively proficient in it. Unfortunately there was a bit of a "fiasco" on Thursday where ltdan  didn't show up at all during the day, so I freaked out and every was like oh his phone is probably dead and he's busy but I was like noooooo, maybe something happened to him, so basically I was a wreck the entire day...of course, guess what it was...he was busy and his phone was out of battery. So yeah, I felt like a complete moron to say the least! So yeah, we didn't have our study/review night...cause I hadn't done my labs...and get this, he did have them done, so that made it even worse haha. I did finish my labs that were due on that night though.

So yeah that's what I've been up to. Last night ltdan and I played Horde Mode in Gears of War 2. I wrote a little blurb about it on www.WithinMorgan.com so you can check that out if you're bored or something. After that I watched a bit of Hana Yori Dango and then passed out.

Woke up this morning, a bit later then usual. Had a bit of chat with Chris and then we went our ways for the day. I headed out to the barn, Brian showed up with some warm tea which was so nice of him. He's really the greatest boyfriend hehe. Then he helped me with a few chores and then he had to go do some homework and stuff. He can never do it at my house cause we always end up fooling around LOL So he gets nothing done. I think he'll be coming over tonight though for some dinner and then back up to Burlington for him. He's so cuuute. Hehehe.

Tonight, nothing much going on. Chris and I might work some more on the hard drive I killed, which had SOME VERY IMPORTANT files on it. I did this on Friday night I believe. Most importantly it had mine, emilie 's and raf 's Warcraft characters on it. I mean I've got a backup from like November or so, but it's too old. I am really hoping Chris and I can recover it, or I am going to cry. I might play some Xbox later on, I'm starting to get a bit hungry, so I'm going to head off, make some tea and a snack and then work on a bit more Japanese, and chat with raf obviously <3

Good morning everyone! I just bought one of the new plush Murlocs from the Jinx site. I can't wait to get it :D

Man, I suck at writing entires....I started this at like 9am and it's like 11:30am haha

I get to sidetracked by AP. Which I almost have 600 posts at haha

Last night raf and I played some CoD4. Definitely had an awesome time, I leveled up twice I think. I am 38 now I believe. I got the G36C but I dunno, I'm not feeling it at all, it sucks lol. I love my Carbine haha

Spent some time surfing the M4Cabine forums, drooling over the pics thread. So many amazing guns, and styles and setups. I am definitely getting one soon.

I helped out the admin of YATS with upgrading to PHPBB3, but his thing was so old that he had to get some tech support from his host LOL. Still broken as we speak LOL. I think if I had better access I could have handled it but I did not so oh well. I've got tons of new music though, I must say the new Fall of Troy, AMAZING. And I've got Blessthefall whom I love.

Umm, went on Skype with Raf and Chris last night, no drinking this time haha,  totally won the other night though. Boys fail. Umm. I ended up falling asleep around 2 or something, the last thing I remember them talking about was whales lol.

Had some weird dreams about going to Raf's house and meeting his dad and stuff, I dunno lol.

Woke up this morning around 9, did some horse chores. Messaged the boys but I think they were asleep, probably still are haha. I dunno how late they stayed up. Just been chatting in #betas and on AP. Dunno what I'm doing today, playing COD4 with LtDan tonight so that'll be fun.

Have a lovely day everyone! <3333

I've been so crazy busy lately, I've just not had time to write anything. Fortunately my schedule for the next couple days isn't really that bad. I mean tomorrow, I will be AFK pretty much all day, but at least it's not like work or anything! Anyways, what's been going on...

Thursday night into Friday I spent a couple hours on Skype chatting with the boys. That was definitely a lot of fun. I've not talked to a bunch of them in a long time so it was nice. We had a mystery guest which no one knew who it was so that funny. I think I finished up with them around 12:30am and then raf and I worked on making a Warcraft server set that links his realm and my realm. I thought it would a good learning experiment and it definitely was. Very easy to accomplish though. I think I shall write up a forum post on Mangos at some point too. We ended up going to bed around 3am or something haha

Been really busy either working at the office or out in the field. Previous to yesterday I have been working in the office. I enjoy it, but someones got to get the paper work and phone calls taken care of...lol. Yesterday I did get out though and got to go all the way down to Middlebury. Definitely a really nice drive down there...and it's a nice town/city whatever. I think I made it home by 3pm and I chatted with raf for a little. Then I took a nap until like 4 or something, maybe a bit later. Then I played airsoft until about 10pm? Or something, I can't rememeber haha

Had so much fun. The green laser I bought it so badass. I put it on both my MP5 and my M15A4 but I think I like it on my MP5 the most. So we got through like 10 games or so and then we all headed home. I got 7 confirmed kills which was nice, I think I only got shot like 2-3 times too :) After that a bunch of us stopped at McDonalds....I just got a small fries and had some of the water I brought. Came home...

I think I posted one message to Twitter and went to sleep haha

Woke up around 7am this morning cause Raf was leaving to fly out to PDC, so I got on so we could chat before he left. He got his new Blackberry (ew) but that's nice cause he can use MSN on it. Unfortunately since it's on the plane he had to log off...BUT they do have ethernet jacks and I assume maybe WiFi (its one of those new Virgin planes). Maybe he'll be able to get back online, that would be nice, not just for me, but to be able to surf the net while you're flying, that is so COOL. If not, I'll talk to him in 5 hours or so when he finally lands in LAX.

Today I'm not really doing much of anything. Absolutely NOTHING on my schedule which is awesome. I am going to go back into bed after I finish writing this, going to wake up late...have a yummy breakfast or lunch depending on what time it is...and if I am hungry. Then just lounge around ALL day :) Tomorrow, I'm driving down to NH with a friend so we can go to the shooting range. I plan on cranking out a couple hundred rounds on their MP5 and probably the AR15 too. I love them! <3. I might be taking Monday off, but I am not sure...we'll see.

Have a lovely weekend kids <3

xoxoxmorgan

Last night raf and I spent hours trying to get some shared calendars working. He ended up going with Windows LIVE Calendar while I went for Google Calendar. I got a new little web page up and running:

http://calendar.tehgeekgirl.com

I also got myself a Twitter account and then rigged up Ping.fm so I post to that and then it sends my update out to FaceBook and Twitter. Pretty cool! I also setup LoudTwitter so my tweets get posted to Scribbld. So we stayed uptil like 2am working on that and getting it to a point were I like it and how it looks. I managed to do a bit of the CSS myself, I was so proud haha

Hrmm, so I've not eaten in like 2 days now. I don't know what is wrong with me, I am just not ever in the mood to eat or I'm so busy that I just don't have time and I forget to. I think I shall change that, maybe I'll be naughty and I'll get some Subway on the way home from work. I could really go for a ceaser salad with chicken though, yummy.

Last night I played COD4 with LtDan and another friend. It was so much fun, I would hve to say the first few games were the best, after that it got crazy cause there were people on there who have looped like 6 times haha. I was deifnitely rocking out the carbine and I took up my sniper rifle once or twice too. I think I am level 26 now, but I cannot remember exactly.

Hrmm, so what else, tonight we're playing World of Warcraft from 8pm to 10pm, if anyone wants to join us. I can send you some server/connection information. I am not sure what we'll be doing, I guess just normal questing. I definitely have so much fun playing the game. I do need to remember that there are another 80+ games in my queue though so maybe I should work on those.

I am so close to beating Battlefield: Bad Company, so I should probably just spend an hour or so and finish it up at some point. I also really wanna finish up Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core, what a fun game it is. And pretty.

Did I mention LittleBigPlanet has been delayed by about a week. So come next week, on the 28th we can finally play it. I am so psyched! I do wish I had gotten into the beta though. I also want to try out Playstation Home...someone let me in!

Alright, enough journaling for the moment. I need to get some server work done for a client.

xoxomorgan

Today raf and I played some World of Warcraft. We both hit level 20 which was awesome. I finally got some decent spells like Duel Wield and Aspect of the Cheetah. Two of my favorites. We've also made our way to Thunder Bluff which is a beautiful city! I am so glad the server/realms are working haha.

So tonight I ha to deal with a few work related things, nothing to big, I am pretty much done now, so I'll probably stay up till 11 or so chatting with friends. I wrote a few articles for my new blog, but I definitely need to do a lot more.

Hope everyone had a nice Monday!

I must admit the weekend was very nice. I got in a really fun game of airsoft. I got 5 confirmed kills and I definitely had an awesome time. I spent most of the weekend researching MaNGOS and patches and compiling and stuff. Finally I got it all completed this morning. I updated our 2 realms and they work wonderfully. I am really proud of myself for getting it all going. Obviously I couldn't have done it without  raf 's help Hehe. I think we both stayed up until about 3:30am yesterday which was crazy. I spelt like a rock after that! Unfortunately, I think we spent the entire weekend WoW-less.

Oh well, we're going to have mad rest EXP. I've also started up a new blog which you can visit here:

http://mac.tehgeekgirl.com

It's basically going to be a blog about new Mac stuff and neat things you can do with them. I am pretty excited about it all! Hrmm, so I've got to get to the boys soon, I need to get some riding done. Today looks pretty crappy outside which annoys me but whatever.

OH, I just bought some pretty glow in the dark sights for Glock 17. It's going to be amazing. Although I am bit scared cause I am going to have to rip open the gun to install them, haha hopefully I don't break anything.

Hi friends,

Yesterday was absolutely miserable until I got home and finally got on World of Warcraft with raf . I had this consulting appointment down in NH at this wicked fucked up place. It was so bad. I won't go into to much detail, but it was crazy. I ended up smoking the first cigarette I've ever smoked since like 2004 or so. I was so goddamn stressed out, it was BLAAAH!!! Anyways...

I've been trying to deal with this whole MaNGOS, Trinity new databases and all issue as best as I can, but now they're just making it rather confusing. Currently MangoAdder doesn't seem to support the new GIT stuff, so I've had to manually run the commands and all, and I have only got it working with ScriptDev2 at the moment. I am sure it'll still work with AuctionHouse Bot and ImpConfig. I've just got to figure out how to do that all. I don't think it'll be that had, "manually" patching for SD2 was simple, one line command.

Last night Raf and I played some WoW together. I had a really fun time, I totally just forgot about the day and sunk into the game. That's why WoW is amazing haha. I think I finally got my mic working on Skype, which is awesome. We had fun chatting and laughing.

I had to leave around 9:30 or so, Nikki came over. Just to hangout and chat about girl things, you know :) We watched a movie and fell asleep around 12 or so. I was so tired.

Oh I also got some COD4 in yesterday which was awesome, hit level 2-24. I wish I had ym G36c back though, I love that gun. I got the Cisco switch updated so that a few specific ports use portfast which means the 360 doesn't bitch when I try to login to LIVE. Thank you Lt! <3

Today, not much going on, thought I would go riding. It's a rather nice day out, although a bit cold, 1 degree above freezing. BLECH! I hope everyone has a nice weekend!

xoxomorgan!

This weekend was rather busy. Friday I spent working on those Warcraft servers. Saturday I just had so much barn chores to do, but I think raf and I played some Warcraft one of those nights, I can't even remember. But we definitely did well when we played. I forgot to mention in my last entry, that I spent like 10-15 minutes laughing when we were playing cause the poor guy was running all over the place trying to get his fire totem haha But he finally got it, I can't wait to see it in action. Maybe we'll play tomorrow night or something. I got 2 new recruits who want to play with us, and they're ENGLISH! Haha. So that'll mean we can probably get into RFC and probably WC. Of course they've got to catch up to us.

Sunday -- Not much, I think I stayed offline for the most of it...OH. jimmy got a PS3 so I spent a bunch of the day playing with that, and since it's office and we've got LittleBigPlanet on reserve, I doubt I'll ever get any work done :P I really love the game flOw. It's so much fun. Very simple, but fun. A lot better then Spore...at least it didn't try to be something it never could be ;)

Today, raf and I got distcc working, and the it pwnt my Internet connection and took it completely offline for the most of it. I need to reduce my threads opened haha But it works, I am psyched we both got it working, we're such a good team!

Someone who used to be a very very very god BFF finally started showing up online more often and is now talking to me normally lol. I mean, ever since like January or February he's been very AFK. I think it's mostly just cause he's got so much shit going on, poor guy. I am so glad he's back on though cause we used to talk like every day. He was like a big bro to me. Very very happy now :D

Hrmm, so that's about it for now. It's really hot tonight, I don't know what the deal with that is, I had to bring some fans back on to the servers to cool them down.

Sleep now, or I'll never wake up to get to work tomorrow. Some guy was supposed to call us this afternoon, when I realized he didn't it was like 2 hours after the fact, so getting his stuff setup and working is obviously not important to him. Oh well!

xoxmorgan

Yesterday I pretty much spent the entire day getting ArcEmu and Mangos WotLK emus up and running. Finally maybe around 8pm or so I got them both running and working! I even logged into to make sure they were ok. Had a buncha issues because I for one am terrible at actually reading directions. Either way, I finally got it working and had some head bashing on the desk haha. Of course raf thought it was hilarious, little did he know I would be LMFAOing at him later in the night. Once I completed setting those up, he and I proceeded to play Warcaft on our normal server until about 3:30am. We got to level 17 I believe and got a buncha new spells, skills, etc...I am really coming along in my leatherworking and skinning :) Same with First Aid. I am so much in love with this game.

I woke up this morning around 8am or so. Headed up to Burlington to meet this guy I met. Let me tell you a bit about him. He works at the local Gamestop and Best Buy and goes to college too. I think he's absolutely adorable. I've definitely got one of those high school crushes going on, not sure if it'll turn into anything more then that, but who knows. He's into pretty much the same stuff I am, gaming, music, movies, etc, you know. He' a pretty good guy all around. So this morning & afternoon we just hung out at the water-front, walked around. Got some lunch and then he had to head to work so I came home. I am sort of  hoping this turns into something more, but I am not sure yet :P

Anyways, I came home...got some lunch, worked on The Mangos Resource. I am still trying to figure out what this TrinityCore means for us normal Mangos users. Hopefully my buddy gets back to me soon. I am wondering if like most splits & merges if they'll realized like 1 or 2 months down the road that it was a stupid move and come back to how it was. I've seen that happen so many times, and it really sucks for us end-users because then we are the ones who have to run database converters, figure out how it all works, etc...it definitely is not fun.

Just chatting (if that's what you'd call silence) with raf and helping some guy connect to the Warcraft server here. I think I'll just go watch a movie or something and take a nap...peace xoxomorgan

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I figured I would update now, since I'll likely not have time to do it later tonight. Today was relatively busy, I had meeting for pretty much the entire day (or so it felt). Lots of neat things going on, looking to score a $15k contract with a marketing company, but we'll see how that goes. I cannot stop listening to this new Underoath album -- the new Son of Sam album is pretty good too, I love the music, not so sure on the vocals though.

raf  and I have been playing lots of World of Warcraft, although not sure if we've played since I last updated. Either way, I've been getting new users and stuff. Some guy already messaged me about being a GM...haha. Looks like things never change.

So tomorrow, I am probably going to be working from home, I've got some web projects that need some work and software(s) that need to be updated. It would be wonderful if WordPress had a built-in updating function.

MangosProject is down again -- same IPS Driver error message :( Definitely not cool!

Tonight Rafael and I are going to play Warcraft so if anyone's around and want to join us, please do! Still haven't uploaded my screenshots, I will soon though, I just never remember when I am on the PC. I guess I should install Warcraft on my Mac, WowHead.com has finally updated their client for OS X.

Alright, time to find some food before I starve to death!

I think everI woke up this morning around 10am or so. raf   and I were up until 4am again playing World of Warcraft. I have SO much fun playing that game with him, especially when he's got voice on cause he's makes the FUNNIEST comments ever. It's hilarious! I am looking into getting voice options turned on (so long as the server core supports it). I think that would be rather neat. I know official has it, but I am not sure if this software is capable of it yet. So yeah, we're level 12 now, and we've pretty much completed the Brill zone, I have a feeling we'll be going down to the Sepulcher area to quest...definitely have a LOT OF FUN! I've actually got some screenshots to post, but they're on my PC so they'll have to wait for another time.

Today I spent about 8 hours working on some new web stuff for the server and getting our server submitted to a bunch of top sites for gaming. There was one site I had trouble with, I think it was because our website runs on a non-standard httpd port, which sucks, but the rest of them worked well. So the 2 sites I got up and running are the Armory and also some new forums for the server. I think every thing came out looking really good and it all works REALLY well. There's a few bugs left over to squash but it's nothing that completely ruins the site.

jimmy worked on TheMangosResource.com a lot today, still has some work to do on the forums like adding some forums and changing some other around. Definitely looking awesome though! I am glad we've got the software updated and the 2 pieces of software mashed together again...haha

Ok, so the other day when I went to update my Scribbld the update.bml page was all smashed together, there was no text box hwere you type in your entry, so I tried the usual things, signing out and back in, removing all my cookies, resetting Camino and nothing was working...but it worked fine in Safari (weird?!). So the next thing I did was download a beta build of Camino 2.0 which did actually fix the issues. Today I thought of one other solution I could have used instead of downloading a new version of my web browser. I could have tried to delete the PLIST (preference) file which I am almost sure would have fixed the issue. I won't know for sure, but I guess using this new build is kind of cool, right?


The next thing in my mind today came when I was coming back up from the barn. MangosProject was down today, showing some sort of database error if I recall correctly. Ever since I started visiting them again, I've noticed there are usually no less then 11,000 users online at that site. It definitely has had troubles sending private messages and even posting messages on the boards. My assumption of today's downtime is that the database just got too overloaded (but don't quote me on that). Either way, it got me thinking about how you could break up a set off forums so that you could run it over multiple servers. The answer that came to my head right away was to use multiple web servers. Obviously a really easy solution to implement. But that doesn't really fix the database getting loaded with so many requests. So I pondered in my mind for a bit long about how the heck you could use multiple database servers for forums. So then it came to me, that you could IF you wanted run your categories off a database server. For example, let's say you've got 1 category with 10 forums, another category with 5 forums, another categorywith 15 forums. You would need 4 database server. 1 server would hold users and user information, sessions, and possibly be the web server, and shit like that while the other 3 database server hold content and whatever else is associated with a forum. Obvsiouly a lot of work would be required to have some sort of setup like that, but farming out categories to to their server would reduce the load on a single database server, once the user clicks into a category, their sent to a new server. You could even combine it with multiple web server so you have 6 servers or so instead of 4.

So those are my ideas of the day, mostly just random incoherent thoughts :D

Tonight I'm playing some Warcraft on our server, feel free to come and join, if you need info/help on how to, let me know :)

Friday was absolutely insane, fortunately, I had a cancellation in my last appointment of the day, which was actually welcomed. I was so tired when I got home around 4pm. I was going to go riding, but it never happened, mostly cause I was just too dead! So I ended up falling asleep and then I got some dinner and raf was online so we fixed my NOD32 and Windows Vista stuff. Then we played World of Warcraft until 4am or so. It was so much fun! I finally level to 10, so that means I can start working on my talent tree, of which I picked to be a fire Mage. I've never really played much of the mage class, but I sure enjoy it! We actually ventured unto Undercity (a familiar place to me) and I was going to buy this pet cockroach but it was like 50s or something. Too expensive for me! I did learn one-handed swords though.

We got pwnt by this one Murloc a couple times, but then we finally came up with a good strategy and we kicked his ass! I am really impressed he's stuck with the game this long, I really enjoy just coming home from a long day of work and entering a world where anything is possible. I can be someone brand new even though it's really me! I feel so much stress from the day just slip away as I slip into this world. I guess that's how crazy World of Warcraft can be, it's so engaging it just takes you away, and before you know it, it's 4am.

I got this really neat armory software installed for the server, I posted a link to my mage in the previous post. It's really cool. It's amazing the types of applications people can come up. The community around all this private server stuff is huge, and it's full of so many people with these crazy skills.

Anyways, I've just been working on a bit of Scribbld stuff, I am trying to make more of an appearence on MangosProject and also we're trying to update TheMangosResource so yeah, you could say I've been really busy :) So I shall leave you here...come back to read more soon!

xoxomorgan

This is one of my Warcraft characters on my private server. I plan on creating a decked out GM character when I can find some time. Real update coming soon! :)

CLICK HERE

I am definitely having a lot of fun playing!