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So my PC had been dying a slow death for the last year or so. Of course, it is right around five years old so that isn’t entirely unexpected. Of late my ram mysteriously halved, it is taking longer to boot up, the fan is starting to make a whiny noise, and worse of all it was below specs to play Champions Online. So I bought a laptop today. I work from home on Fridays. Always hard to actually get too work though. Spent the morning mostly reading email and poking restlessly at the bits of code and content I should be working on. Distracted by thought of Champions Online, the book I’ve been reading, the pile of compost in my driveway I need to finish moving to my garden in back, and wondering what to do for lunch. I’ve resolved one of those issues so far: pizza minis for lunch. Long day today. Wouldn’t have been that bad except the weather in Oregon has just been wrong this year. A long time ago, in a place just on the other side of town, I was a child growing up in Portland. Way back then 90+ degree weather was something that happened on one or two days every other year. I think we’ve had sixteen days so far this year over 90 degrees, including the hottest day in recorded history for Oregon (115 degrees). It is way too late right now, but I figured I’d get this posted before I called it a night. Got the Open Beta client working at about noon and logged into Champions Online for the first time. I have to say, to start this with, I have been waiting for this game (and alternatively posting wildly or stalking the games forums) since I first heard about it Feb of last year. It was worth the wait. After far too long I am finally getting Hythia.com back up and running. The actual final look of the site is still pretty heavily in development, but this is a modest start to the site for the moment. To be honest, the big impetus for me getting this going again is to have somewhere on web to post all of the notes and info I have been collecting about Champions Online. Been making lots of notes and going to try to collect it all here in various posts before I gather it up somewhere else and do… uh… something with it. I have another domain name and another site I have been working on for a while that is still also in the works. Will talk more about it another time. Until then, glad to have Hythia.com back up and in the world of the internet living again rather than in the half-finished limbo it has been languishing in. Hello internet! |