Everybody knows that one of my hobbies is playing video games. At the moment the one game that I have been playing on and off for while is Call of Duty 4. What is funny is that I haven’t finished the game itself because as soon as I started to play online I forgot about trying to pass it.In order to play online you need high a high speed connection, my ISP and cable provider is Road Runner. I have the most basic high speed plan and it has served me well. I can play online with no problems as long as I am not watching videos at the same time. I was at the COD 4 forum the other day and somebody mentioned this site where you could check your broadband speed. Well, I just had to take it and you can see the results below. It took me less than 2 minutes to do the test and If you play online or if you are just curious and want to take the test you can click this link and it will take you there. You can also compare your results with others in your city, state and even other countries which is pretty neat and don’t forget to let me know your results.
My long weekend is over and that means that I have to go back to work today. To be honest I don’t want or feel like going to work but sadly I have to. What is going to be real sad for me is that while I am going to be working this week my friends are going to be having fun at Burning Man, by the time they asked if I wanted to go it was too late for me to reschedule my long weekend so I had to say no. That is ok, there is always next year as the saying goes. I am going to do my best and have as much fun as I can this week, after all I have a three day weekend coming my way, yeah!!.
The weekend was more of a huge COD 4 playathon (is that even a word, if it isn’t then I am the new owner and expect to be paid royalties every time it is used) than anything else. On Friday night I started to play Call of Duty 4 at 8pm and did not stop until 5am Saturday. I went to bed soon after and was back up at about 2pm, took a shower got some food and said to myself that I was going to bed early on Saturday night because I was really tired. Then I watched the game between the Columbus Crew and the FC Dallas, it was a very good game that Dallas was winning at halftime but in the second half Columbus came back and ended up winning 2-1. I was going to watch a bit of the Olympics but it didn’t happen, I started playing at 10pm and did not stop until 6:30am, I was tired and I just wanted to go to bed and next thing I know it’s 4:30pm Sunday. I got up, took a shower, got me some food and decided to relax the rest of the day. Watched Big Brother, surfed the net and then I played some more COD 4 from about 10:30pm all the way to 4am Monday. I ended up going to bed late again, 6am to be exact. So sad.
I remember when I first got my laptop (named Sunshine by the way) a while back one of the main things that I wanted to check out besides the new Vista Operating System was the gadgets you could add to personalize your sidebar. I only have four gadgets on my Vista sidebar. One is the Xirrus Wi-Fi Monitor which tells me all about my wireless network and any others that are in range and how strong the signal is. It looks like a radar going around and around, very nice if you ask me. The other gadget I have is the All CPU Meter, this one is one of my favorites. It tells me what my CPU usage is and how many MB are being used, how many MB I have free and the total MB. It also tells me how much Ram is being used and how hard my two cores are working as well. This next one has to be my favorite so far, it is called the Stream Portal. It lets me watch TV and although it doesn’t have that many channels it’s good enough for me. You can also listen to the radio and it has more radio stations than the TV and I am sure you can find something that you like, I personally listen to the oldies station. The best thing about this gadget is that you can add more TV and radio stations which is very nice. Last but not least is my Weather gadget, hey if I don’t know what the weather is going to be like one look at this gadget and presto I am ready for whatever comes my way. I can add a couple of more gadgets but four is fine for now. What about you?, do you have a favorite gadget or gadgets?, let me know.
It feels good to be on vacation but something that I sure didn’t expect was to be in pain and I don’t know why. Lets start with the pain on my hip first, the right side to be more specific. When I walk it hurts, when I sit or get up it hurts, when I go to sleep it hurts, what gives?. I do have a theory, I have spent some much time sitting down on the couch being lazy and that is what caused the pain. And just to make things a little more interesting my right thigh is acting up as well, I have been dealing with that pain for a while now and dealing with both is no fun. I have been stretching and it feels better, hopefully it will go away soon.
Then there is the bridge of my nose, it hurts and again I don’t know why. It’s kind of a mystery as to what happened, I woke up a couple of days ago and when I put my glasses on the bridge of my nose hurt like somebody had just punched me and the pain has not gone away. Nothing much I can do about this one but wait for the pain to go away.
Today is the 6th day of my 16 day weekend and it would be very sad if I spent the rest of my time off in pain but oh well. I am going to have to do what I usually do when something hurts, forget about it.
Day three of my 16 day weekend and I am loving it. Nothing to do here in Los Angeles but breathe, ok I am exaggerating because we all know that there is always something to do. I did take a break from all that work I have been doing the last two weeks.
Saturday morning between 2am and 5am I changed themes, more on that on an upcoming post. I then went to bed and woke up at about 2pm I think it was, took a shower and got me some food and then sat in front of the TV. I watched the game between the Kansas City Wizards and Chivas USA. The game ended in a 3-2 win for the Wizards, it was a very entertaining game. I then watched Project Runway and right after that I watched Flip That House. I then watched Transformers the movie and I managed to catch Revenge of the Nerds as well. The day ended with me going to be late and I do mean late.
I watched the U.S. Olympic Soccer team tie the Netherlands 2-2, it was a game that the U.S. was winning and with about 2 minutes to go the Netherlands scored. I went to bed at about 7am and was back up at about 2pm. Again I took a shower got me something to eat and checked what was on TV. There was no Sunday noon Futbol game today and that was sad for me. Later in the evening I watched Big Brother and then watched the Olympics. I watched Katie Hoff just miss a Gold medal in the Women’s 400m freestyle by that much. I then watched the Men’s 4 x 100 Freestyle relay and that was exciting, going into the last lap the U.S. was behind and in the final turn Jason Lezak pulled even and then ahead of the French swimmer and just by that much won the Gold medal. I then went to bed tired but happy because as you know I don’t work today, yeah!!.
I am happy to announce that today is my last day of work for a while because as soon as Saturday gets here I am officially on vacation. I like to call it a long weekend instead, sixteen day weekend to be exact.
Finally some time off to enjoy the nice weather we are having here in Los Angeles. I have some plans of course but I am sure that nothing will go as planned and that is fine, I will adapt. I remember last year when I took my vacation, I mean when I had my long weekend I wondered if I would take time off from what at the time was my only blog but I decided against it and guess what, I will be blogging as usual during my long weekend this time as well.
Not everything will be fun and play, just 99% of it. I have some blog related stuff I am going to be working on and as usual there is always something to do at home and if there isn’t something manages to come up at the least expected moment, yep. I will see you Monday, hopefully I will be well rested but knowing me I doubt that.
by Edwin on August 5, 2008
in Futbol
I have been so busy lately that I forgot to mention Superliga 2008. Like they say, better late than never. Well. today is the Superliga final and it’s an all MLS final between the New England Revolution and the Houston Dynamo. These two teams met in MLS Cup 2006 and 2007 finals with both games ending with Dynamo wins. I am going with New England and here is my prediction, New England wins with a final score of 2-0.
New England is in first place in the Eastern Division and overall MLS leader this season with a 10-4-3 record while Houston is 6-4-8 and in second place in the Western Division. The game is at 8 PM ET at Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, Mass, Check your local listings and enjoy the game.
I will be the first to admit that I enjoy my weekends as much as I can. I try my best to relax and rest as much as I can. Well this weekend was busy just like last weekend and as a result I didn’t get that much rest. Again I spent most of the weekend learning as much as I could about anything blog related and again I learned a lot. When I say blog related I mean the more technical stuff about blogging. I bet you noticed my new theme (more about that on another post) when you got here, do you like it or hate it?. Saturday night I didn’t get any sleep because I was working on so much stuff, next thing I knew it was Sunday morning.
I took a couple of breaks here and there to watch some games and forget about work for a couple of hours. On Saturday I watched the game between the Houston Dynamo and the Columbus Crew which ended in a 2-0 Dynamo win. On Sunday I was watching my usual noon game this time between the L.A. Galaxy and the San Jose Earthquakes but 10 minutes into the game I was so sleepy that I did the unexpected. I turned off the TV and took a nap, I was back up at about 4:30 PM feeling still tired and sleepy. I watched Big Brother, surfed the net for a while, listened to some music, watched some cartoons, watched some music videos and then went to bed late.
