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I always hate this time of the year

Normally January is a terrible month for work since most of the spending was done between Black Friday and Christmas Eve. Ever since the start of the new year though it’s been absolutely terrible. Next week I only get 13.5 hours of work. I’ve never had my hours cut that low before. 19 or 18 at the lowest… but 13? Why even have me on the schedule at all?

Of course this isn’t much of a surprise. On Sundays we’re pretty busy due to the after church crowd but they didn’t stick around nearly as long. Hopefully they’ll try to call me in (and not at the last minute), but if not at least I’ll have plenty to keep me busy.

I ordered a couple 2 TB Hard Drives (two brand new ones for $89 each which is pretty cheap) to replace a couple of 1 TB’s that are starting to show their age. One of them is a video scratch drive that I use and the other is my Steam drive. Seeing as I only have 98 GB left on it I guess it’s time to move Steam to a 2 TB for more real estate. 😛 I’m thinking I’ll turn the old Steam drive into another drive for storing FRAPS footage along side my other scratch drives. That will put me at 4 TB that I can hotswap, and one scratch drive that I already have inside the the system… so 5 TB for FRAPS footage? That is a lot of pr0nz. 8) Speaking of pr0nz I got bored and made this in SFM.

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The results are in. The R9 290 is awesomesauce

Of course that’s pretty much why I upgraded. 😛 Handles Tomb Raider and Shadow Warrior like a champ. Even improved my frame rate in Serious Sam 3. Before I was getting 60 frames or lower, now it stays between 160 to 250. I look forward to newer generation games just to see how they perform. 🙂

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Plans for my weekend.

My R9 290 should be arriving tomorrow afternoon/early evening. So I’ll probably be occupied playing with it in benchmarks and graphically intense games that were semi crippling my Radeon 6950 (Tomb Raider and Shadow Warrior for starters).

Finally! After all the damn delays I’ll have my hands on it (knock on wood).

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Open Thread

I had a couple items arrive for me in the mail today. The Logitech G13 for my laptop (which works perfectly), and my shipment of matcha. I just polished off a ginger matcha latte, unfortunately I can’t really taste the ginger. I might have to try it prepared in the traditional method in a bit since I still have a bit of a thirst.

In fact I think I’ll go get some before I read and write more internetz.

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Another toy I’ve been playing with.

Pretty much anywhere but the blog. I’ve been pretty distracted with some new stuff. I even vanished from my mumble server the other night when I found a new program to play with. I mentioned awhile back that I had issues under Windows 7 with my XFi sound card and not being able to manipulate certain audio channels with it properly. Well, I found something that works even better AND it’s geared towards gamers.

It’s a program called MorphVOX Pro. It costs about as much as FRAPS and gives you all kinds of vocal options. You can create your own settings and edit existing ones. You can also download additional addons and packages, most of them are free too! I’ve been testing it out for the last few days and immediately bought it. Between that and my Digitech I’ll have hundreds of options to annoy people with in any game or voice program. 😛 It also uses very little CPU which is important when using in games.

Full features include:

New professional interface using standard windows controls.
Expanded file format support including MP3 reading!
Backup/Restore all your settings to a single file.
Better list management for all your voices and sound effects.
Plug-In support, allow for more features now and in the future.
Multiple-user support, easily switch between different speakers.
Plus many more!

If you’re looking for a a good realtime voice changer I suggest trying the trial to see if you like it. Check out the sound and voice packs too for the lulz.

Cat blogging

The last of the adopted three.

I went to the post office today to drop off a package and came home to a sad surprise. Our cat Sammy, our black bermease cat had his insides hanging out of his butt. Called the humane society and they were of no help (they said they would call back and never did) so we ended up calling the vet and taking him in only to find that he had to be put down. Which when your internals are hanging out like that I figured he wouldn’t make it for another day. Poor guy.

He’s the last of the original three we adopted six years ago. We had Tommy the orange tiger cat, Bobbi the stubby manx and Sammy.

It seems like every January 10th is a suck one. :/ Someone either dies, breaks, or finds another excuse to go wrong.