FATHER BEATS CHILD AFTER XBOX FALLS OVER. January 31, 2008
Posted by caldi-chan in : Gaming, parents , add a commentNow this is an interesting article to find and read on Girl Gamers, the Live journal community I frequent quite a bit.
I am a mother. My daughter is five years old.
I would never smack let alone beat my child to death over something so… STUPID. I would get angry, but it’s called counting to ten and removing yourself from the situation and calming down.
After reading the article, I felt sick to my stomach.
That poor girl didn’t deserve death over something like that. Take this as an advanced warning.
If you think you’ll get mad enough to hit or harm a small child for something like this more then ONCE. (Read small swat to bum) then you need to seriously re-consider your ethics as a parent, and seek help to curb the anger.
The new Tower. It is shiny. January 20, 2008
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So this gamer chick has finally done it. She has bought a new computer. Granted the actual adventures in getting it were amusing at best.
It started out with getting home Friday, and being impatient. See Tia didn’t want to go outside with me to get it, so I had to get a babysitter. This is where good ol’ Swan, my partner in Anime Convention crimes comes into the picture.
It took about an hour, because he missed the 12:30pm bus from his place of residence to mine. Upon arrival I gave him instructions on how to keep Tia amused. In this case, it was the simple rm files of Sailor Moon Stars for Tia. (She’s a big moon fan, and considering I have everything except a few eps of S and Supers, it’s a given.)
I grabbed my daughters sled, dressed as warmly as I could and was on my way. The store isn’t that far at all from where I live. Just have to cross one street and walk down the strip mall to get to it.
When I got in, the guy I talked to last Tuesday didn’t recognize me right away, so a simple prompting of “I called last Tuesday looking for a system that could play wow.” He recognized me then and we started to go through the towers, based on price and specs. I had a $444.00 dollar budget.
We finally settled on a nice tower which is taller then my old one. Before tax it was around 2 hundred, bring it to around 3 hundred. I snapped it up. It looks really nice. Fits on my desk nicely. I have a good long warenty on it as well.
Getting it home was a pain though.
Due to snow there was constat risk of the sled I had it strapped to tipping, so I had to bend over butt in the air, and push the thing home.
Needless to say I did get it home alright.
But my hands were unbelievably numb.
A new computer in the future? January 14, 2008
Posted by caldi-chan in : Uncategorized , 3commentsSo I found a store that may very well, have what I need in a computer.
Now I already have a good monitor and and good accesories to go with it. I just need a fairly good new Tower that will let me watch You tube, play wow, and let me watch my anime in peace.
Well did some research with a friend, aparently there’s a store not far from where I life that actually deals in parts PRE Vista.
Which is a good thing, seeing as Vista is as buggy as hell, and I hates it with a passion.
Anyways, the guys at this store are trustworthy, and if I can work out a payment plan with them where I pay money when I can I can rent the system till I own it. Which in and of itself is better in the long run. I would no longer have to fight with this current home brew and I would be happy enough to not complain anymore in regards to computer issues.
The question is, do I really want to. lol. XD
Another WoW topic. January 13, 2008
Posted by caldi-chan in : W.O.W, general musings , add a commentOn a lark a few months ago, I created the wow Character Davetango.
Name derived and a nod to one of my favorite shows, and T.A.P’s Team member. Last Dec when I wasn’t grinding Tarrlin, (who is now lvl 32) I was goofing off and grinding this character. By the time he hit 20, Swan via his Pally, Mayeliena (sp?) had this character join a guild. So I was level grinding like mad, and enjoying the feeling of being in a family like guild.
Welcome to Darklords of Vengeance. The members are all nice and help each other out. In fact they make the quest grinding rather fun and it’s nice to have a bunch of people you can associate with to talk to while you solo it out on the newbie quests as well.
Today Davetango, dinged level 33, and was able to complete a rather interesting quest with the help of a guild member who had the Magistrate rank. Now usually I do avoid the fleshy characters. They die so easily, however, this mage knew what they were doing.
It made for an interesting time before I logged off to write this while eating a breakfast of cereal while waiting for my daughter to wake up. I may only get to play on weekends now on Swan’s laptop when I am not hanging out over there, but I hope it will be worth it.
This guild actually makes being in a guild, FUN.
2008 is here. January 10, 2008
Posted by caldi-chan in : Gaming, general musings, parents , add a commentThus the new year has started. I’m a bit late in writing in this regarding that. The new year itself feels just like any other year except the simple change in the last digit from 7 to 8.
My daughter it seems is ill, however all things considered, she does attend a school most days of the week so I’m not suprised the virus I had over the holiday has resurfaced and now she has it.
Plans to work on several volume one reviews are in the works. When I’m not cuddling my daughter and sleeping.
You can expect, Angel Scantuary, Zombie Powder, Airgear, and Dramacon 3 (when it arrives from Amazon). As well as Vampire Knight volumes 2-3. Yes I am going to review those as well. I did say it had two more chances to get me to like it. We shall see what we shall see.
Saw the movie enchanted not long ago. I have to hand it to Disney this time around. They turned your typical Animated musical princess flick into quite the amusing and cool, live action flick. I was rather pleased with it. I think I’ll be making it part of my dvd collection, if it doesn’t go straight to Blue-ray DVD.
In the meantime, I think I should tackle the mess that is slowly exploding out into the hallway and put things back in order. Now that I have the energy to actually clean I should actually do so before I get beset with another of my famous migranes.
Happy new years folks.