Rainy Days

It's finally Saturday...a rainy Saturday, but at least it's the weekend. It's been a crazy week here. My birthday was this week and I was gone to Richmond on my birthday during the day for a seminar given by Dell on their new EqualLogic SAN storage devices. This is an awesome toy! It also costs about 40,000 bucks...so it better be REALLY awesome. The system they were showing only had about 3.6 TB of data storage, but it is really cool and it seems pretty durable too. At the end of the demo one of the Dell rep's started pulling out drives (I think in total she pulled out 4 or 5 drives) and then pulled out a power supply, then she pulled out one of the controller drives and the thing was kind of running still...it was crazy. But she never did turn the drive off, and they put all the pieces back in and it kept running just fine. It was pretty amazing.

What wasn't as amazing was the food. The seminar was held at Ruth's Chris steakhouse in Richmond. From what I understand this is some super fancy place that charges big bucks for food. I had the steak option (they also had a chicken and a crab cake option) and don't get me wrong it was a good steak, but it really wasn't anything that made me say WOW. Also it kind of scared me that when I looked on the menu online, there were no prices listed...anywhere...I guess if you have to ask how much, you shouldn't be going.

Oh well, after I got home from Richmond, we had some friends over and ordered pizza's and hung out and played Wii until all hours. I did finally get to play Star Wars: The Force Unleashed in dual mode and that was pretty cool. Apparently you can't play dual mode in single player though, you can only do it against another live person, which seems kind of dumb if you ask me. Oh well, maybe for the next Star Wars games they'll get their stuff together a little better.

So let's see, what else is going on...oh yeah, Fallout 3 is set to be released on Tuesday, which should be awesome! I think I'm going to go today and pre-order it from GameStop. It's strange, I haven't really touched fallout since fallout 2 came out and I got it in Germany, but the game has always had this strange lure for me...I'm generally not really much of a Role Playing game fan, but that game is just so cool, and it always has a really fun plot setting (for Fallout 3 it's set in DC after the Apocalypse.)

Ok, that's about it for now.

~C