Delayed update

Well, there's not going on, so I've not felt particularly pushed to update.

Worked all of last week. I started out Saturday taking a lazy drive to Stevens Point.  I wound up crashing with my friend Mikel and then having a very fun session of LARP with the Stevens Point Garou game.  I officially joined their game/sept.

I drove back and got in much later on Sunday night (ok ok, it was Monday morning) and got into work on time, but on about three hours of sleep.  I was tired but it was a much needed get away from things.  It helped to clear my mind and recharge me so that I'm not in a morose funk.

It's been a fast week at work this week.  It's been fairly slow and we're missing assorted people due to vacations and days off.  Strangely, we've managed our call volume just fine and service levels are still doing well.

Tonight I'm going home to do laundry and finally play some hard core World of Warcraft.  I've been having problems for the last two weeks with WoW randomly crashing/hanging/locking the entire system.  It would randomly happen from the time I started the game up to about 20 minutes of playing.  There was no pattern or trigger that I could see.  I reinstalled WoW and all the patches then I downgraded from WinXP to Win2000 and reinstalled again.  I pulled out the Nvidia 7600 GS/512MB out and went back to the onboard SiS UniChrome video.  WoW was playable...at 2-4FPS, even at the lowest settings and all effects turned off, it was struggling to get 18FPS.   Finally, last night, I was so frustrated with it that I was considering cancelling my account and uninstalling WoW.  I decided to check and see if there were any BIOS updates for my motherboard (there were two, but nothing for the AGP issues, mostly to support newer CPUs) but what else did I find.  There was an upgrade to the VIA Hyperion Pro 4-n-1 drivers...including an update to the AGP driver.   I waited very very impatiently for it to download and installed it...and rebooted after putting the NVidia card back in the machine.  Started Windows and started up WoW.  90 minutes later, I was still playing at full settings with no problems at all.  I'd solved the problem!

Tomorrow is the St. Paul Garou game which I'll be going to as a semi-visitor.  I'm technically still a part of the St. Paul game for paperwork purposes, but as a player, I'm a member of the Stevens Point game (more on that in another post).  I'm going to be maintaining an LJ for my Garou character and posting all kinds of juicy goodness there.

Sunday is my day to do absolutely NOTHING.  I am planning on sitting in the AC and either coding up the new Garou Nation website design or writing.   I would like to get the Garou Nation site up to date and up to speed.  I need to email the Head Storytellers of most of the games to make sure that I have the most up to date information for each game.

Well, it's 1:30pm and we're currently running 20-30 minutes between calls.  I'd actually ask to go home early but I need the money and I know that we are short staffed late tonight.  I'll be here until 7 bells.

I'm going to get back to faking work.