WTF? Part Deux

*sigh* Well, here I am again, it is the weekend and while I don’t really have “free time” on my hands, as I look to me left and see “Zoom” playing in one of his toys, satisfied watching daddy at the same time, I felt I had to drop in and update just “WTF” has been going on.

The job. Well, I can tell you I still love the company! The people, the pay, the position, although I don’t get to play “choo choo” until Late November, 2007, nonetheless its great so far. Remember one thing, if you are every talking about your “updated” resume, I suggest you don’t use the word, “embellish” when describing it. Even though the word means, “to heighten the attractiveness of by adding decorative or fanciful details” which is what a professional resume service does. Enough on that topic.

I had a first I was hoping I wouldn’t, but I was not alone in accomplishing (or not accomplishing it). I did not pass, what they call a ‘skill test’. Personally, I think I got screwed by the instructors, as they told me after the fact, “Oh we were discussing your test and felt you did enough to pass. BUT, the one step you left out is being removed in the process “THE NEXT CLASS” and we did not feel we could give you the benefit of the doubt.” Again, WTF? Why tell me this? Let alone in the presence of all my classmates, thought that was sort of a shitty move on their part.

So, this means I have two tests, a written on Monday, which is scheduled and a re-test for the skills check, all because I did not press and hold a friggin button for 10-30 seconds. I knew I was forgetting something in the process too, and I made it clear, TWICE! And the instructor proceeded to say, “Oh don’t worry about, continue on…” But, in the end it comes back to nip me in the ass.

I finally got the machine up and running and let me say, 30+ days of troubleshooting could have been resolved by taking Spellbinder’s advice and NOT install RAID 0 for the 3-300GB hard drives I had. The performance is still there, using MS Flight Simulator X as a benchmark, if you consider a solid 15 FPS great performance. And believe or not, 15-20FPS is solid performance, of course it does not come without a price tag…LOL.

I tried running Nvidia’s Dualview last night in order to take advantage of the two DVI outputs. The problem was the programmed assigned one card to each monitor, which made me say, “WTF?” So while flying on dual monitors in FSX was cool, I decided the degraded visuals was not worth the larger screen size, atleast at this point in time. FSX looks outstanding with the visuals set at high right now. The flying is smooth and aircraft movements are quality realistic (from my 16 years of flying).

So its the end of the year and I will look back in a week or so and comment on where the year went and how I and my family fared. Personally, I think I achieved great things, looking back on my list of what I wanted to accomplish, mainly a new job. Thankfully I am happy that opportunity came around.

For those Urban Terrorists coming to ‘the floor’ for further insight on the mod being released. I don’t have any super secret news to pass on. I have been testing the new files for the past few nights and personally, I think it is the best version we have ever released. It is taking longer than normal, partly due to the fact that we have been working on other programs to help create the environment you play in. For example, you might have seen the ASE & lavatubes post on www.urbanterror.net. That was something that 27 worked on for a bit in order to improve the visuals and lighting in game. Rest assured, the community will rejoice at the release.

And to all my fantasy football brothers I play with. The view at the top is great. Catch me if you can! I am riding LT like there is no tomorrow. Giddy up!