Long Odds

Woah, haven't updated in a while. Got capped along the way but that's been fixed now so I'm back on the net again. So updates.

Paintball was mad fun last Wednesday. It was quite hot but a beautiful day for some paintball action. Drove to Rouse Hill for Action Paintball. I came prepared to spend lots of money, but actually didn't spend that much at all. I went for a $40 gun upgrade and boy that was worth it. The standard paintball gun (technically called a marker) shoots around 3-4 shots per second with an effective range of less than 20m. My marker had a very sensitive electronic trigger, did 15 or so shots per second and had an effective range of 50m. Needless to say, the ability to pump out lots of shots relatively accurately made me the bane of all the players involved. In one game, each team had a general who could only be killed by a headshot. I quickly targeted him from a safe distance and let off a volley of shots. By the time he yelled out "Hit!" and had his hands up in the air I had hit him 4 times on the top of the head. Fun times.

My brother's new comp finally arrived. AMD Athlon X2 6000+ with 2gigs of RAM and a 8800GT. Pretty decent specs. I'm dual-booting Vista and XP since my brother doesn't feel comfortable with Vista yet. Still it has plenty of grunt and I'm looking forward to Call of Duty 4 and Crysis.

I was capped a few days ago, but I have temporarily upgraded to the 20 gig plan, so now I have 8 gigs on-peak and 20 gigs off peak to use. More expensive at $94.95, up from the $64.95 we pay for 12GB/24GB plan. However, it didn't go through as expected initially as I was capped, and the online form to change plans didn't go through because I was capped. Had to call up Optus and get tech support to change it. It actually wasn't that bad, only took 10 mins of waiting. Last time, my dad called to change billing details and it took over 30 mins before he could take to a human operator. Thank god I wasn't on hold for so long.

So now I have more bandwidth to use until the end of the month. I won't have that slow-ass feeling of being capped from 2 weeks.