What it is yall? project pat in da house!...ok not really, its just me, RMM. Its been a while since made a new blog entry, just been loaded with school, work, and the essential partying. mostly why i havent had time to post much, however ive made time to post every now and then but im not home much during the weekend due to the partying aspect so most of my posting is done when i get home from work while i eat and get ready for class.

works been good i guess, i got my own cubicle and plastered it with random game posters, i got a raise as well so pay is pretty good.

school is goin alright, im supposed to be doing an argumentative essay with my choice for the topic right now, but who cares about that, i plan on making it comical though, with a topic of "why parents should beat their kids" and hope that my teacher wil realise its tounge and cheek and not something serious. (although i do believe parents should administer the "five across the eyes" and the "one-two shut the hell up"). i also dropped my tuesday class, "C++ programming" mostly because im still in a community college and just picking up some gen eds and it was just for some exposure into programming, it just got drowned out by my other classes that i didnt want to fall back in, and learning a programming language takes a lot of effort and time, and i just couldnt dish that out right now. but im gonna take it next semester with my step dad, hopefully he can bring some light to the subject with me.

also, im getting a sub in my car (just one, i dont want to be a fanatic about it and try to set car alarms off) just a 12" pioneer 800w peak power rating. the RMS on it is 150w but im gonna bridge it and feed it around 380w RMS (i listen to a lot of rap and metal, and i baught some after market speakers, and while they definatley added to the audio experience, i feel like i need more. as well as wanting people to know that im arriving by them hearing a thump outside :P). my car currently is a 96 toyota tacoma, its missing a front grill cause i owned a car in front of me last summer and broke the radiator. but i plan to upgrade next summer to an 07 impala. since my mom is the head purchasing agent for an insurance company, one of her responsibilities is to deal with the purchasing of corporate cars and they got a fleet of 07 impalas earlier this year and are going to sell them and get new ones next year, so she can get me a good deal on them, around 7k. maybe when i put the sub in ill post a picture of my truck.

on a funny note, i posted a random video of the first bleach opening, and it keeps jumping up in views, i expected one, maybe 2 views on it, but it jumped to around 50. people must be googling the bleach opening and finding it. hell, i may even up the second bleach opening if i get a request :).

lastly, i MAY be moving out of my parents basement (embarassing aint it?) and into a friends house, with a few other dudes, but thats still up in the air, but im psyched about it none the less (he will probly read this, and post a comment about it) but it would be awesome to come home to a party every night.

thats about it, a little more info on me and what i have been up to. and for refrence purposes, i feel like such an emo dou che bag for writing a blog posting like this; thinking people actually care that i baught a shake this morning  and liked it....(5 points for people catching that refrence)

so i finally got around to setting up my new computer parts yesterday and uploaded a bunch of pictures along with a walkthgough of my build to the OCU forum

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/unions/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=24916219&union_id=3092

i just got back from a night over in canada....fun night....

edit: i added some benchmarks to the thread

alright, this is totally uncool. one of the tubes in my watercooling setup is completly flattened out and wont round out, no matter what i use. the only way itll round out is if i squeeze it with my fingers. so i didnt realize this was happening until my temps sky rocketed from like 40c idle to 54c idle. i then decided to fix it but at the same time got my tracking number for my new motherboard (arrives thursday) and decided i could just tough it out and not play any games until i got that (gonna rearange the whole thing and change out the tubing) so i decided to take off my 1.2ghz overclock and that put it down to 40c idle, but now its flattened out so much its up to 51c idle....

cant wait until i get my new conroe setup

well im finally level 14 horray me but the bigger news is that my motherboard finally is shipping. the Asus P5W DH, it ships either today or tommorrow.

Also i got news that my processor is going to ship sometime around monday, and i think im gonna go ahead and order some new ram today

so as of 12am july 19th, its my birthday, and coincidentaly i turn 19! so im supposed to go to the casino with a $100 in monies to spend as i want, im gonna go to the windsor casino across the bay in canada. also i got some rechargeable batteries today for my 360 controllers, those things eat up battery life like no other, it just made sense to buy some. speaking of which ive been playing a lot of UNO lately so if your have it youll prolly see me playing ranked matches, or if you dont have it feel free to add me to your friends list anyways! heres my gamercard edit: alright this is stupid, ive seen other people put their gamercard in their sigs and blogs and what not, but how the hell do i do it? the stuff on the xbox website doesnt work.... anyways my gamertag is rabidmonkeyman1 http://live.xbox.com/member/Rabidmonkeyman1 edit: got it

alright, i just got my wisdom teeth out and its very very sore right now. the surgery wasnt that bad the worst part was when they nuked me with novacaine, that hurt the most. but after that took effect i couldnt feel a damn thing in my whole mouth, so when he finally started he literally dug a whole in my gums and i couldnt feel it at all.

he gave me vicoden to compensate the pain, but all its done so far for me is give me the same symptoms a cold would give you (constantly feeling cold/hot and getting dizzy when you stand up) it sucks and i dont know how anyone would possible ever want to take these voluntarily (recreationaly) but i hope to be better by tommorrow night, gots me some plans...also, a pic of my wisdom teeth to come soon :)

p.s. i did get a 360 rental out of it though, the blockbusters selection sucks though, so i ended up with the new tomb raider, i havent played it yet but ive heard good things.

Alright, so ive been home since sunday night, all in all it was a good weekend (except sunday, after the 5 hour drive home, the power went out until around 3am) and my next vaction is at 4th of july when i go up north to do some roofing for my grandpa, i know, sounds fun doesnt it? anyways, heres how my world breaks down.

I work at a sh*t stain debt collection company where i find files in a large warehouse and then scan them into the system, luckily the people i work with are cool, but my boss is a total...well, you get the idea. i do this for about 6 hours a day, and in the fall i go back to school while still maintaining this job, so well see how that goes. if you were wondering, i hope to be a software engineer, but from the looks of it, computer hardware engineering may be more fun, i dont know, ill have to look into it.

so obviously my main priority is my computer, its a beastly machine size wise, performance wise, its still up there and alot better then most machines out ther, but im still looking to upgrade it around december when some DX10 graphics cards come out, and a nice conroe processor with a mobo.

so without further delay, here are some pictures of my pc and setup:







here are some up close shots of the waterblocks, this is before i got the good coolant, and the new motherboard:





so thats my computer, i enjoyed building it, and the watercooling thing was a learning experience for me, i had some major leakage issue with the GPU block, but after some vicious pushing of the tubes into the holes, it stopped, and i now have some pretty good temperatures.

Im also a console gamer, as well as a PC gamer, in fact, last wensday i baught an xbox 360. i knocked this console so much when it came out, but now im loving it! the standard wireless controller is frigen great. not to mention the ability to do everything from the touch of the controller (except turn it on, but you can turn it off) and the fact that turning the console off, turns the controller off as well, which is perfect for someone like me that would normally forget half the time. i so far only have one game for it, Fifa world cup soccer 06, this game started off not so great, but once i actually learned how to play the game effectivley, i can assure you its a fun game, and ive been hearing people mention the graphics would "not have a problem running on a ps2" and i respond with, "have you seen real soccer?" it looks the same because of the camera angle. but once you zoom in and see the crowd in HD, you know its 360 quality. I also rented right night round 3. i plan to buy it next week because its so much fun as well. i frigen love the sound effects when you haymaker somebody right in the face, and the slow motion right before they get knocked down. not to mention the amazing looking graphics, truely 360 quality. i also purchased geometry wars, because, what 360 isnt complete without that game? :D im also looking foreward to dead rising, gears of war, and mass effect, dead rising is coming out before fall, so i cant wait to pick that one up.

that should just about do it for this Manly Blog Post, dedicated to Maddox's new book that just recently hit shelves, "The Alphabet of Manliness" its about 206 pages long, and frigen helarious. if you have a beard that gets longer AFTER you shave, because your so manly, then you need to read this book. its amazing :P

VACATION!! im gonna take a break right now from the weekend of partying and just chill with my family down in cincinatti ohio. its about a 4 hour drive from where im at and its my first time driving down there by myself. so i hope i dont get lost.

since this is my first blog post, and i normally despise "blogging", i will start this baby up right when i get home; with crap about me and mainly revolving around the love of my life (my computer)