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Cooking some pulled pork today. I'll finally try out that Battleborn beta and maybe the FFXV demo too.

MAD TV spoofed President Donald Trump years ago..

Trump's composure is pretty much the same as "drunken president"

MYSQL crashed on the server. First time I've seen that happen in almost a year.

Background picker is now functioning. I'll change the background pics this weekend after I edit a couple.

I told myself I wasn't going to buy a game any time soon, but I went and bought StarCraft 2: Legacy of the Void. It was $10 off today and I couldn't hold myself back. I'm going to marathon this game soon. But I'm still planning on trying out Overwatch this weekend and I still have this last fractal mission challenge hanging on me like a monkey on my back weighing me down. lol.

I'm going to upgrade an image handling php extension to the server later this week and change some image settings around to auto resize uploaded images. I might be able to get image uploads from mobile phones working correctly. If so, pictures of my dogs will rain down in these galleries.

My little puppy Elsa had her spay surgery today. Shes all tired and pathetic looking with her cone on.

Sharknado 4 is on tonight. This is going to be great!

As long as I launch Guild Wars 2 with Steam I can stream it to my laptop in ultra settings over my wifi. The input lag is less than when my laptop runs the game by itself. lol. I'll try launching origin and battlenet thru steam and see if I can stream my Starcraft 2 or origin games onto my laptop later this week. Buying that graphics card was like buying a gaming laptop at the same time thanks to steam in home streaming.

I finished watching Fringe this past weekend. What a unique show. The first 2 seasons is it's own version of X-Files (without alien stuff), the 3rd and 4th seasons then becomes an espionage thriller, and the final season time skips 20 years and becomes a resistance series where the team has to defeat a powerful enemy. lol. Combine all that with a couple soft resets because of changes in the timeline, an alternate universe with duplicates of people, crazy technology and a handful of individuals with mutant like powers and it definitely makes the show an odd yet interesting experience. I highly recommend it as its a great show to marathon.

The final season probably shouldn't have been made tho but it does finish some of the plot lines not resolved in the season 4 finale. Netflix does screw up a bit. They put an unaired episode into season 1 at a completely wrong moment that broke up the season finale in such a way that I had to google search wtf was going on.

Happy birthday Lady! she probably wont even notice this. lol.

I beat The Walking Dead: Michonne tonight. Poor Michonne. The end really makes you feel for her. The action in the game was decent but was very short. It was only 3 episodes but compared to the original two TWD games Telltale has done, the Michonne game's length is equal to 1 and half of those episodes. I was also confused as to the time line of the game. I kept wondering why she had a machete and not her katana. I looked it up just now and the game takes place after some event in the comic where Michonne leaves the group for some reason. And this is the side story of that. But they don't hint at that at all. The entire time I thought the game was taking place before she even met Rick's group at all. Overall it was worth playing for the $5 is cost me. But aside from a few choices that could have changed things, this game could easily be watched on a lets play instead.

I'm ordering a new propane smoker tomorrow. To hell with using charcoal anymore. The smoke from burning charcoal and cleaning the ash afterwards over the last couple years has made me realize I can't stand using the crap anymore. It was a good learning experience and I can easily maintain the heat with charcoal, but its too time consuming and it makes a mess. I'm going to start making more jerky and pulled pork. Especially pulled pork. I love doing a double batch and freezing the leftovers. Nothing beats eating an amazing pulled pork sandwich in the middle of winter without having to cook it in 5 feet of snow.

I bought a new couch today. Couches are so costly. I think I'll hold off on buying premium for bf1 until the first dlc comes out to save some cash. 6 months zero percent financing was a good deal but all my extra cash will be going to my couch payments now.

I finished watching The Shannara Chronicles on netflix last night. That was a great Lord of the Rings style series that I never heard about until I saw it on netflix. And it was made by MTV. wtf. Thats like having CMT make a new Battlestar Galacta series. No wonder I never heard of this show. If you like the fantasy genre, I recommend it. Elves, humans, dwarves, gnomes, trolls and demons all exist in a far off future earth long after the time of man. Magic is big in this and it even has it's own version of Gandalf.

A new season of forged in fire started about a month ago and I forgot all about it after I set it to record on my DVR. Another episode is on tonight and I think I have 3 more eps on my DVR to watch already.

The first presidential debate is this monday. I can already predict the winner..

Fox News: "Donald Trump crushed Hillary in the debate!"

MSNBC: "Hillary easily won this debate!"

NPR: "There was a heated debate between the two presidential candidates with opposing views on tax reforms and Syria."

lol. NPR is so boring compared to the other networks, but at least it's news. After the debate, and all future debates, everyone who has already decided who they want to vote for will feel reassured with their decision and feel more substantial hatred to that person's opponent. I'll watch fox news and msnbc the day after the debate to see what each party's commentators believes are the positives and negatives.

New wallpapers are up. I got burned out on seeing that division wallpaper. lol. I'll start swapping these out more often.

Slight spoiler for Fairy Tail.. pleasure magic. After I saw that I didn't think it'd get any worse.. and then the tentacle melee attack happened. I feel like I should stop reading this, but I want to see the end. x_x

I bought a new modem off amazon so I won't have to pay time warner a modem rental fee of $10 a month anymore. I'll be hooking it up sometime tomorrow or friday. Hopefully I don't get any new NAT errors. x_x

Don't forget to vote today! And read this comic: http://explosm.net/comics/4211/

I got my new modem hooked up. Works good so far but I haven't tested BF1 yet. Hopefully I don't get any surprise NAT errors . 

Winter is coming. I haven't had any snow this season so far except a light dusting. but this Sunday - Monday we're getting 8 to 12 inches. it's time to hibernate indoors. 

What a crap day yesterday. My younger brother's appendix bursted, hes having a surgery today. I'm in another state so I can't visit him in the hospital. My internet went out last night because of this storm. I got 12 inches of snow at my house over night and we're getting another 6-12 inches today with even more overnight. x_x

I bought a new 480 gb sandisk ssd hard drive off jet with a 30% coupon for only $75. I'll get it sometime next week. I'll finally get to see how fast these things really are when I put it in my laptop.