First of all let me tell you about the Halloween Party, Medieval Style, that took place at my home on the 30th of October. Man, it was a total blast! Everybody that I've talked to tells me they had a great time, some even went as far as saying that it's the best party they've ever been to. Big words, but in my opinion, well deserved. It is definitely the best party I have ever hosted, one of the best I have ever been to, and am looking forward to the next one. I couldn't have done this without help, of course, so the credit also goes to Jaime and Tumbark. I couldn't have done it without you guys. Thanks a lot! And to my patient wife who went through with all this with only some minor complaints about it all.  Lastly, I have a bunch of pics around, so if you want 'em ask for 'em.

And now, for more big news... I finally saved up enough money to buy a decent computer. My five-year-old 500MHz PC's life is near its end. It has served its time with me well, but now it is time to move on to greener pastures, faster CPUs, bigger RAM, and mind-blowing graphic card. Behold, my newest baby, Jancelot's Area 51!!! Here are the specs:

Warranty: 1-Year AlienCare Toll-Free 24/7 Phone Support
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional with Service Pack 2
Desktop Enhancements: Exclusive AlienGUIse Theme Manager
Chassis: Alienware® Full-Tower Case (480-Watt PS) - Space Black
Power Supply: Alienware® 480 Watt Power Supply
Processor: Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 550 w/ HT Technology 3.4GHz 1MB Cache
Motherboard: Alienware® PCI Express Motherboard with Intel® 925X Chipset
Memory: 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz - 2 x 512MB
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA® GeForce™ 6800 Ultra PCI Express 256MB DDR3 w/Dual Digital and TV Out
Video Cooling: AlienIce™ Video Cooling System - Astral Blue
System Drive: High Performance - Serial ATA - 120GB Seagate® Barracuda 7,200 RPM w/8MB Cache
Optical Drive One: NEC® ND-3500 16x Dual Layer DVD±R/W Recorder
Floppy Drive: 3.5" 1.44 MB Floppy Disk Drive - Black
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster® Audigy® 2 ZS High Definition 7.1 Surround Firewire (IEEE® 1394)
Network Connection : Integrated High Performance Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
Display One: NEC 18" LCD 1860NX MultiSync - Black
Speakers: Creative MegaWorks THX® 250D 2.1 300-Watt Speakers
Keyboard: Microsoft® Multimedia Keyboard - Space Black
Mouse: Microsoft® IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0 - USB - Space Black
Alienware Exclusive Offers: Gamespot Complete - Free 90-day Trial (a $20.85 value)
Alienware Exclusive Offers: 10% off your next EB Games online purchase
Free Alienware T-Shirt: Free Alienware® T-Shirt - Black
Free Alienware Mousepad: Free Alienware® Mousepad
AlienInspection: AlienInspection - Exclusive Integration and Inspection - $99.99 Value - FREE!
AlienWiring: AlienWiring - Exclusive Internal Wire Management - $99.99 Value - FREE!

It's not as pumped up as I initially wanted it to be, since I had to reduce some of the components to less quality and cheaper ones in order to reduce the total payment. But overall I think it's a pretty good bang for my bucks. The only bad thing about Alienwares is that they take a little bit over a month to get the systems up and running and shipped to their customers. And I was informed I will be getting mine sometime in December, so it'll be a long wait... World of Warcraft will have to wait...  

But it's gonna be worth it. HELL YEAH!!

HOT DIGGITY DOG DAMN!!! JUMPING JEEZUS ON A POGO STICK WITH FLAMES COMING OUT HIS REAR AND A PRANCING PONY ON HIS HEAD!!!1!11111!!!11one!11!!!!1eleven

OMGWTF?!?!

Jeebus H. Christ on a Yugoslavian Water Buffalo.

And you're complaining 'cause you had to cut out some stuff?! Tha b0x is t3h L33T!!!11!11

In fact.. I'm not sure you'll be able to handle that much gaming power all at once. I think it would be best if you shipped it over to me instead so I can.. err.. break it in for ya. Yeah.. um.. you can use my old machine in the meantime. o:)

Yeah, I had to reduce the processor speed from a 3.6 to a 3.4GHz, tone down the Hard drive speed from 10,000 to 7,200 RPM, the Audigy Platinum sound card was changed to a normal Audigy, had to switch the flat panel from 19 to 18", and had to change the speakers to those 2.1s... all so I could keep that NVIDIA! :P LOL