Have yourselves a merry xmas, everybody!

It is Lan time once again. Although we had some struggles in the beginning because of lack of time, we're now gathered to Mort & Rip's to have Retro & PC Gaming session. With a lot to come, we have already made history with delivering a small amount of drinks from Ideapark to our secret gathering place.

We already had one of our Retro session with PC-Engine. The games were Battle Lode Runner, Bomberman '93, World Beach Volley and World Jockey.

Rip won the Battle Lode Runner sessions, I was the Bomber, and our team also won Mortis and Dorden on the beach. I and Rip also spanked our horses the most in World Jockey, both winning one of the two rounds.

At this very moment that I am writing this blog, Mortis is downloading cs_varikko and cs_slummi for Counter-Strike: Source. We'll see if they can beat cs_crackhood!

2nd day update I

CS:S matches have been played. I found a new version of crackhood, cs_crackhouse2 was its name. It had some good new stuff, nevertheless it was a disappointment when compared to crackhood. Also we found two other good maps, de_treehouseattack and cs_sprint-trading. They rocked!

At night we suffered from the thing that two of our four computers weren't in LAN (Steam complained about that, couldn't join LAN servers), meaning that we had to join our server through the internet, that causing some ping problems. We started our 1st Garry's Mod 10 session which didn't go as planned (because of ping and server problems). Also our creativity wasn't on its highest level, so today perhaps there shall be better stuff coming!

^{Professors on a journey (Vehicle made by Rip), Mortis's piece of advice and Some Jeep Chair Boost}

Now we're copying some stuff from one another's computer to Garry's mod, and the gaming of the 2nd day shall start soon.

2nd day update II

Garry's Mod has been delight of our LAN!

^{Rip's delight - Turd cannot be off the count of how delightful Gmod has been!}

We had a huge building session in gm_tropicalwater, which was suitable for water vehicles. All of us made some kind of vehicles except Dord, who familiarized himself with home-made cannons. After the lan one surely can watch Ripatius coming to my and Mort's port with his Land-Water Vehicle at SlowdaysTV.

^{My and Mort's Port Construction Yard. The third screenshot also contains Rip's vehicle on the background.}

^{My huge vehicle meant to be suitable for flying and landing on water ended up by removing accidently the main object.}

After the Gmod session we headed downstairs to have our 2nd Retro Session with PC-Engine games Champion Wrestling, Davis Cup Tennis and Motteke Tamago. The first game ended up as a draw with me and Rip against Mort and Dorden. Davis Cup Tennis was very tight but in the end Dorden and Mortis changed the situation and won with rounds 6-0, 1-6 and 5-7. Motteke Tamago was everyone against everyone game. The purpose was to get as many hatched chickens to one's base as possible. I won 4 of the 6-7 rounds.

More to come!

3rd day update I

After the PC-Engine session it was Left 4 Dead time. We uncorked Valve's new mini-campaign Crash Course, and yes. It wasn't good, even though one wouldn't count bad voice acting along with bad manuscript. A) the new achievements sucked, b) the campaign was amateurish, c) it contained only two maps, d) it glowed the spirit of fast-made campaign. So... Not good!

Then we played some Counter-Strike: Source, which ended up in tears.

And then back to our masterpiece, Garry's Mod! We had a huge cube fight with Dorden on the air, Mortis liked to spawn cars and Ripatius liked to kill everyone. After that session we changed the map and started to construct things. Ripatius tried to make a Walk-Machine, but it needed some straight ground. Mortis and Ripatius expressed their opinions about my vehicle as noting: "A little bit phallic". Dorden was interested in cannons once again. Mortis tried to make a Weld-a-Car which didn't work.

^{Some fighting with huge cubes. Also "a little bit phallic" vehicle under construction by me...}

^{... and Mortis stuck inside (or not).. "Phallic I" ready to rock'n roll off the cliff!}

And then there was some Age of Chivalry of which I tell nothing about.

As it might be already clear for you guys, the Kaka Lan is on at this very moment of ours. It started yesterday evening with a lots of struggle with making internet work as meant for everyone, because we didn't have hub for five plugs.

Meaning: Mortis sends wireless to our server machina Seppo and my MacBook Macrankel. Macrankel shares the network to a modem, which gives the network for me, Ripatius and Dorden. Is this madness? This is cs_crackhood!

Yeah, after that we started playing some CS:S, so the time with the worst game could be quickly over. And what we found? cs_crackhood! Screenshots coming later on!

Today we had some problems with getting Seppo's Simon Zombie Serveri to work in Left 4 Dead, but we got it run smoothly now! We played some custom campaign, though Simo timed out and it ended.

Now when it is food time (19:19), we're atm making KAKA version of famous Pizza Burger. The steak is already ready with Ristorante Hawaii pizzas. Also beacon is hot 'n cooked, so the thing that is left for us to do, is to build the burger! And soon its GNAM GNAM TIEM!

We're also planning to have a little barbecue at night, around 2 AM local time. I'm looking forward to it.

Many games to come, many pieces of burger to come, many stories to come! And if Mortis gets it working, also Lancam will serve you.

Update:

Because editing my post didn't work at all, I shall edit the post by posting a comment!

The mythos beast from the history, Famous Pizza Burger has been tamed by four chosen warriors by the allmighty, all-dancing KAKA! Pictures from this battle that lasted for hours, can be found by clicking this link. The "leftovers" were later at night barbecued out in the wilderness.

Because of this grand victory, we celebrated it by dancing on the roof of No Mercy Hospital. Even though Ripatius was lost in the madness of Death that came Aboard (SlowdaysTV shooter sacrificied his life because of this very footage), we managed to also get Gold Medal in Hospital Olympics (winning jump only visible in HD-version).

More to come, more battles to win!

The time has come! Let the alarms sound! Tomorrow 16:00 CET the house shall be at our disposal! First thing to do is clean the house from sawdust and such, then early as heck on saturday the seller from Vårgårdahus will come and do a minor inspection with us to take notes of marks on floors and such. When that is done the race is on to move all the shit from the appartment to the house and garage. The truck has been rented and all so i hope it'll be fine! A small setback is the fact that the big bathroom won't be ready when we move in. But i truly hope it will be done before 1th of May and it might be possible, keeping my fingers crossed. The problem has been with the company that lays the tiles, they have been late and so they're behind schedule. It should mean some extra money in our pocket, but it would've felt sweeter if everything would be ready. O'well, it is like it is, i won't let it trouble me.

After the weekend we'll begin cleaning the appartment (or we'll hire people who does it for us, we haven't decided on that yet) and have that ready asap so we can leave that chapter behind us.

Overall i think it's gone good, we've had our ups and downs of course but that's only natural, the result is splendid and we're very happy about  the result. I'll of course show lots of photos when we've collected ourselves a bit. I hope to be able to produce a proper album out of it to share and keep for ourselves as well.

Now to look forward on having a bigass garden to care about x) Not looking forward to tending that, anyone up for some summer work? ;-)

Such a long time since last entry but o'well, much has happened as usual. The house is now placed where it should be and the work continues. I've uploaded new images today which you can browse at the usual location.

At the moment we're scanning all stores for tiles and man, all i can say is that i don't look forward to doing the same with wallpapers x-|. It'll be good once it's over with :), we've already decided bathtub, fireplace, planned the electricity/wireing (not to mention all the stuff regarding the wedding which is July 11th!!) so we're well under way. But what time it takes, phew! We even managed to do some wireing ourselves which was fun cause we don't get to do much else inside. Don't know if i've metioned the date for completion which is the 24th of April. So it's getting close!

On another note, we're feeling the recession at work (both mine and Ann's) which is totally scary, i hope there's a light in the end of the tunnel. We managed to build the house in the worst time possible, but o'well it's our luck :P I'm going to Denmark once again too, for a workshop for Trelleborg Wheel Systems, it's only a day but it's fun to get out some.