Saturday, December 27, 2008

The strange Christmas at the PSX Gamer house

Well the strange part is no games were exchanged for Christmas.  I'm sure that you are all thinking "how does this guy call himself a gamer if he doesn't even give his son a video game for Christmas."  Well with the economy in the dumper and PS3 games generally running between $50 and $60 I decided that more practical gifts were the prudent option.

I know that you can find games for the PS3 for less that $50 but we have been enjoying COD:WaW and I didn't feel the need to take attention away from that game since it is still fairly new and my son has not grown bored with it.

Well during different Christmas celebrations [my family/her family] he received a large amount of cash gifts.  Obviously his relatives were feeling generous this year.  Three guesses what the boy wanted to buy with this windfall.

You guessed it... games.  Anyone hazard a guess what game(s) he ended up with?

Thursday, December 4, 2008

My Internet problems

Recently I moved some stuff around in my kitchen. This is where my main computer is located and the move included the computer and all the associated peripherals. Two of the key peripherals are the cable modem and the router. I had coaxial cable running up through the floor at the computer's old location but the connector was to large to be pulled back through the hole.

Out came the drill to make a larger hole right next to the existing hole. In hind sight this was a bad idea. I nicked the coaxial cable when I drilled the new hole. Whoops.

After reconnecting everything in the new location the Internet connection was a bit unreliable. I attributed the issue to the nicked cable. Darn it! I moved the modem and router to the basement and connected to the cable down there. The PS3 [which is located in the basement] is now connected to the router by Cat5 cable instead of via wireless. The main computer is now connected by wireless and my daughter is without Internet on her computer that is in her room. Sorry missy.