We recorded Ep 5 last night, and will hopefully have it out faster than last time.  I experimented with using logmein.com to remotely connect to my desktop at home, and using an alternate Skype name added into our conference call, recorded a backup steam with MX Skype Recorder.  I stopped the recording at around 1 hour 40 mins (the show isn’t that long.. haha) and the file was around 1 gig.  The quality blew away my expectations, if after editing it sounds good enough we might forego having folks record on their end (although it may be a good backup plan should the world explode), and may result in faster turnaround.

I had the crew down last weekend and we did the traditional Rock Band stuff, but also spent awhile at the beach, as well as Jillian’s arcade at the Waterside in Norfolk.  I hope to always have friends like these throughout my life.

In other news, Christine’s moving in this weekend, I’ll be driving up tomorrow and after a farewell party at her apartment we’ll be packing every last thing she owns into both of our vehicles.  Some would say it’ll be an interesting change, but I can’t really say that considering how much time we’ve spent together over the last 10+ months.  I’m very much looking forward to not having to drive 4-5 hours every other weekend, at least, alone.

Here are some recent pictures:

I’ll try not to go weeks without updating again :).  I’ve been pretty busy with my job hunt, the SecuraBit show, and with Christine lately.  This past weekend we headed up to Richmond to see Robert Schimmel perform at the Funny Bone there, and it was a pretty decent show.  Saturday night a bunch of us went out to a new place on the oceanfront, where Christine lost her purse/phone/everything (well, stolen would be my assumption) and I got the high score on the Mrs. Pac Man machine there, although I neglected to take a picture, most likely because my score was only about 35,000ish and nothing to boast about for me.

Season 4 of Hak5 is looming and I have some ideas written down in our little brainstorming area.  I’m going to add a couple of more once I’m done writing this, and hopefully I’ll be able to deliver better quality stuff this season.

Last night we watched the movie “Funny Games”, which I thought was good, but entirely too slow for my taste.  I think I’m too americanized where I need explosions and plot twists every 3 seconds, vice every hour.  I do recommend watching it, however.

I purchased Worms on the Xbox Live Arcade the other week, and have gotten a great deal of enjoyment out of it.  So far the roommate and I are about even for wins/losses, but I think my skills aren’t as good as they used to be.  The first time I ever played a worms game was back in the Win95 days so you’d think I’d be a god at it, but it’s been awhile and I’m rusty :).  Christine seems to do better against me, though I’ll always blame the map haha.

I’m humming right along in GTA 4, but also taking my time to enjoy the game fully.  The missions are always very engaging and the storyline is simply awesome.  I do have a gripe with the shooting system though, the camera can make you disoriented if you have multiple enemies around you and have to keep moving the camera as you dispatch them.  I’ve only tried the “friends” multiplayer option so far, but I think I will delve into the full multiplayer tonight and post thoughts about that.

I’ll have some pictures up of the new garden soon, so you can all see the disaster recovery job my girlfriend and I did on it.  She’s the green thumb and did the majority of the work.