I stepped in a new age of online gaming this week. {Velvet} introduced a voice chat program called {TeamSpeak} that allows the guild members to talk live during playing. Only a few use it yet, but it is still amazing. It makes things easier because you don't need to type your messages and it is also more personal. There were voices I could hardly associate with the players, and some of them sounded exactly I expected. Fun.
I showed TeamSpeak to the Hungarian players as well, so now we have our own channel. It is good because most of us are in different guilds now that makes communication harder.
Off I go now, because tomorrow morning I have driving lessons. No actual driving yet though. :( Only dumb rules, many of which I already know. Most of them are as uninteresing as a rule can be, too. I hope I will pass the exam on them easily and proceed to practical studies as soon as possible.
Mental note to self: I really should write down my ideas about the next journal enty during the day because when it comes to writing my head goes *pooof* empty.
I had to visit our beautiful (Eeek. Not everywhere.) capital today. I needed to finish moving out from my dormitory and I had to fetch my father's mobile phone as well. Pretty easy tasks.
However things turned out to be not that easy. At my dormitory it was revealed that I still have to pay last month's fee. I only had money on my credit card so I went to the nearest post office to make the transaction. Asking my ID the officer had to turn me down as my ID was valid to the 30th of June. Luckily I found a bankomat which does not ask for IDs...
Oh... forgot. On my way there on the train I fell asleep after putting my book I was reading on the little table near my seat. Waking up I looked around to check if everything was packed. I took my backpack and stepped off the train when I noticed my bag is too light. It used to be heavier. My book wasn't in it, and I remembered then I put it on the table. However I also remembered that when I woke up and looked around it wasn't there already! Someone must have taken it while I was sleeping. Intentionally or unintentionally it will remain a secret. I am still very annoyed though. I am curious how the story of the book ends in the first place.
To my great relief the fetching of the phone went flawlessly.
Coming home I found the email of Kathy who was kind enough to run through some of the pages on SeSam.hu and check them for mistakes. Many thanks to her! Take a look at the {bio} page for changes.
As my brother cannot install Neverwinter Nights on his computer I tried the single player campaign alone today. First with my usual class: wizard. However this game is not very friendly towards physically weaker professions as I experienced. The AI being not very smart it is a nightmare to make your pets and familiar do what you want (namely absorb the hits while you send off deadly magic from behind).
Therefore I started a simple warrior and I really enjoyed it! :) Warrors have many special attacks which are not only spectacular but very effective in combat. Being a hack'n'slash fighting machine was such a relief from the misery of being weak.
I wonder if warrors remain cool at the end levels though. In the Baldur's Gate series wizards became demigods over level 20 or so. Well, I will see.
I spent half of today with things that didn't profit anything to me only made me angry. I borrowed Neverwinter Nights from a friend of mine and me and my brother tried to set up a nice multiplayer LAN game. However for some strange and unexplainable reason NWN didn't run on my brother's computer. Nothing helped: reinstalling the game, reinstalling detonator, patching the game, nothing. It didn't even bother putting up some error message, just quit to the desktop.
In the afternoon I experimented some with AO to see if my link dead problems would solve. They didn't. It was so annoying being LD every minute in Inner Sanctum while everyone else was enjoying the exceptionally good teams and loot.
So I ended up with a headache again and I also made my mother upset because as she said I should value what I have. Thats quite right I am seldomly satisfied with things, something or someone is always a hair in the soup. Some more positive attitude could boost my standard of living for sure. It just I am always hitting walls in the process. :(
If I wait any longer with posting I will run out of the day soon. It is hard to post though, because today wasn't one to be remembered really. I woke up and looked around: nothing changed, my room still resembles much a catastrophe-stricken area. Having no house elf sadly I think I have to use the good old muggle way and exercise some discipline on my lazy @$$... tomorrow.
Hey there. Nop, I am not dead. :P (I was wondering - really - what would happen if an online journal's owner actually... well... kicked the bucket. Would the readers consider departing as a possible cause of the ceasing of posts?) Anyways I am back now, and hopefully for quite a time you can enjoy/laugh at/despise/find pathetic/hate my weekly efforts to convert my spinning thoughts into something readable.
Despite of the mildly hot and sunny day and the vacations I have a small, lurking, pounding little headache in my temples. Trying to ignore it is the best I can do. And I am listening to Norah Jones to soothe it.
Looking around my headache seems not *that* unexplainable though. My room strongly resembles a crime scene with the unmade bed and papers and CDs on the floor. Yeah, well, it seems vacation is endless fun and joy it has the side effects of making you lazy. Not that I hadn't been lazy enough before. :D
Oh, almost forgot. How come I have Norah Jones to listen to? No, I didn't win the lottery to be able to buy CDs. Nah. I have 7/24, unlimited, fast RDSL connection! Exactly what I was longing for so long now. One little hair in the soup is that AO seems not to like my connection and drops link dead every single minute which is the most annoying thing ever.
And as bad things don't go alone such seems to apply for good things too as my Harry Potter: The Order of the Phoenix has arrived three days ago from Amazon.co.uk. Needless to say that only the pathetic human needs of eating and sleeping prevented me to read it in one go. Sadly my English is not nearly developed to express my thought about the fifth HP book. I was deeply touched, I was laughing that tears came to my eyes and I felt the unmistakable empty feeling in my head and stomach when the book ran out of pages to read. As the Potter boy comes of age so does the story and world of his develop.
I am planning to make a full review on the book but that needs quite a time to evaluate.
All in all. I hereby promise I will be back with more posts. And not in a month. (But earlier!) :P
Brief post coming. Just for you to know that I am alive and though many times I was on the verge of posting I didn't do it. I have many exams and as I have to learn for some reason the daily (weekly) routine of posting just seems a compulsory to-do thing as well and therefore unwanted and unpleasant. However I had to fight my conscience every time I didn't post.
So now here is a life sign. As for things happened to me I became 20. I mean 20 years old. I had my birthday on 5th june.
I can barely type as sweat is dripping from my forehead. It is insaenly hot here. Unlikely of this time of the year all temperature records are beaten. Exactly weather that would simply kill half USA if they wouldn't have their air-conditioners which we here don't have.
Yesterday wasn't the most successful day of my life for sure. I failed on my European Integration exam. I had two points missing. I am somehow always a little tad under the line... Well the exam itself wasn't to my liking either: it was tricky and unfair. But as I don't have the right to choose I have to put up with the situation as it is, namely that I - though can try to pass this exam another time - can't ever be sure that I pass because of the nature of the questions.
And today comes Act II, another - this time an oral - exam in History of Economics. Sounds 'interestingly challanged', doesn't it? :)
Exams. *chokes* Many exams for me this week. I am trying my best to learn however this kind of learning (huge books to read and learn by heart) I disdain. No innovativeness included. My little trick is that I came to Budapest to my dormitory where there is no TV or computer in my room -> the only thing to do really is learning. I hope it will work.
Yep, I am alive, and trying to post as much as I can but apparently I can't. :) As time passes there are more and more things to do, write, learn, hand, etc... true exam-time. *Sigh.*