Moved Into A New House

Every since last Thursday, I've off work until today.  I closed on a house, had 3 friends show up and moved that afternoon.  Spent most of the night getting bed and furniture arranged and unboxing boxes on stuff we needed for the next morning.  Worked on getting the house arranged and everything put up and didn't get done until Sunday at some point.  I didn't hardly sleep any during this move.  If I got 4 hours during a night, that was a lot.

What the worse part of it all was Saturday morning when I went back to the old house to tear down and cut up the old swing set we had as it had just seen its last days.  My eye was crusty that morning.  Throughout the whole day, I kept getting mucus in my eye all day.  During the night, I woke up like three times and both my eyes were sealed shut.  Had to get all the crust off them.  By the time I got up on Sunday, my eyes were bloodshot red.  I had no idea what was going on and the wife said go to the medstop.  So I went and found out I got pink eye in both my eyes.  I've never had pink eye in my life and I don't even know where I got it from.  So lost as to how I actually got it.  So I got drops and antibiotics to help me clean it up.  I actually got some white back in my eyes today for the first time.  I'm sure by the end of the week I'll have it fully cleared up.

Needless to say, I haven't felt like playing games at all during all this so I haven't played any.  Which I couldn't have anyway as my Dlink wireless router up an died on me during the move.  I had already been researching for a new router and went ahead and ordered a Netgear WNDR 3800 wireless router.  It's dual band with 2.4 and 5 GHz built in.  Two USB ports that I plan to use for cloud storage and hooking my printer up to it.  This router is the biggest router I've ever owned.  It's almost double the size of my past routers.  Not going to complain if it does the job it's supposed too.

I do currently have an issue with it and it's dropping my 2.4 GHz signal to all my devices.  Which everything I have is on that except my iPad 2.  Which I thought my laptop was able to connect to 5 GHz but it won't see that range at all.  I'll have to find a way to upgrade my 360 to the Wireless N device later on if I can find one on the cheap.

I've changed the MTU from 1500 to 1400 and it helped it stay on longer but it's still dropping.  I just picked channel 1 and I'm testing to see how long this last until it drops offline.  If it drops, then I'll go to channel 6 and 11.  Those are supposed to be the best channels to use with Netgear.  So will see how that goes.  So I'll be testing the next few days on that.

We got rid of 5 pieces of furniture before we moved and we had to get the kids a new dresser to replace the one we got rid of.  It should be delivered Thursday, so I'll be glad to get it as they need some drawers to put all their clothes in.

A furniture place in the next town over is having to close up shop as they are going to tear down the building and put in a gas station.  Crazy though considering one is across the street already and that business has been there for 50 years.  It sucks but everything was 50% off, so we got 2 new couches to replace the old one we had.  So no more being cramped all on one couch.

Which this is another cool thing that I didn't realize I was going to get.  I actually have more room in the living room for my Kinect compared to the old house.  We thought it was going to be smaller but the other house had a rectangle living room where this one is more like a big square.  So we are actually farther back from the TV and it looks small now compared to before.  With all the stuff that was in the living room when we looked at the house, it just looked like a small living room.  So we're happy for that.

Especially since we have the Twister game, plan to get Dance Central 2, and Just Dance 3 for the Kinect.  Kinect is slowly taking over on all my games.  We own WipeOut now as well.

We are going to drop cable as well this week.  Going to keep just the internet and try to stream everything.  So going to hold onto Netflix and do some Hulu.  I've got a program called Playon that I have setup to stream shows and stuff from all the website that streams to the Xbox 360, PS3, iPad, ipod touches, and smart phones.  Which is another reason I needed a new router to be able to handle all this bandwidth and not mess up my online gaming.  8P

So once I get over this pink eye, get some good rest, and get this router fully setup like I want, I'll be back online playing again.

Sweet Deal for an iPad

Newegg.com - Apple - iPad w/ Wi-Fi 64GB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16858753003&nm_mc=EMC-EXPRESS102211&cm_mmc=EMC-EXPRESS102211-_-EMC-102211-Index-_-index-_-58753003

Pinball FX2 Paranormal Table Free For 1 Week

Well I definitely don't want to miss this.  They are cranking out the Pinball FX2 tables unlike the first Pinball FX where they were supposed to be doing it.  They are all good tables so getting one for free is a no brainer.  Make sure you get it if you have Pinball FX2.

Hi Everyone! Yes, Paranormal will be a FREE download for one week only. It's a bit of a 1 year Pinball FX2 anniversary celebration, and we really wanted to say "thanks" for all of the support over the past year.

Once you download the table it is yours FOREVER.

The FREE download period is Oct 26 - Nov 2.

If you have friends who are experiencing Pinball FX2 for the first time, please make sure they download the FREE Pinball FX2 platform from Marketplace when they download Paranormal.

Once again, thank you all for supporting Zen Studios. It's been a great year for us and we are happy to give something back to you, our fans.

Pumpkin Carving

Took it a little easier this year.  Just made a cat on the pumpkin this year.

Box rides on iCloud's coattails, offers 50GB of free cloud storage to iOS users

Box rides on iCloud's coattails, offers 50GB of free cloud storage to iOS users:

No, your eyes don't deceive you -- Box is offering 50GBs of free storage inside its cloud for iOS users -- just like it did for TouchPad owners back in June. Anyone who downloads the latest version of Box's app for iPad and iPhone will receive their massive lot for data storage after registering a personal account (existing accounts can join in on the fun as well). To make better use of that extra space, Box will also be bumping upload capacity from 25MB to 100MB per file and baking in AirPlay support. Look, Box is obviously skitching on iCloud's tail, but it sure seems like a crazy good deal considering that space is yours "forever." The promotion will last for 50 days, officially starting at 12AM on October 14th -- although, we're already seeing the update on our end. Full details in the source link.

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Viewing Blog on Cell Phone

So I setup my blog to be viewed via a cell phone and I'm just now looking at how it looks.  It's pretty slick and easy to navigate in.  Google can just be awesome sometimes.  It was a very easy option to turn on.

Also I added my shared items on the right side of the page for anything I share out from my rss feeds.  It'll show the last 5 I've shared.

Blogging From my Phone

I've been meaning to do this for awhile in hopes that I will post more on each little thing I do.  Hopefully this will help me out.

I have actually gotten hooked on a Facebook game thanks to my wife.  First one I've ever really played.  So now ill probably branch out on that some more.  Not to mention she added sims to my account for my daughter to play.  8P

I bought another iPad game so ill make a post on it soon.  I'm only about 25% of the way through it and got stuck.  So I've got to figure out how to move on since its a tower defence game.

Well first phone update.  Let's see how many more come.