Well, as the holidays draw to a close, I would like to take this opportunity to reflect on everything that the holidays are…
The most recent event was the inagural -=(NoSpoon)=- LAN, where sleeping was optional, and pwning n00bs on CS:CZ was not. We didn’t get any sleep, but we did manage to clock up an awful lot of CZ hours… At this time, a special mention of the following people are in order:
((NS)) invASIAN: the one who was completely dead at around 10am the following morning. UT:GOTY now works on his machine, though! Stoked!
((NS)) Roarchas: managed to go home and sleep, was straight back into it the following morning.. Good work!
((NS)) Eudorus: had clocked up so many CS:CZ hours beforehand that it didn’t matter how well he went in games, just how log he could be seen “in-game” for… 
((NS)) weedman: because you go to LANs to watch TV. Rabbit ears FTW!
((NS)) noobjuice: the newcomer to the -=(NoSpoon)=- LANs, he made a gallant effort in all games. His computer seemed so impressed it BSOD’d on command!
All in all, a good afternoon/night/morning had. Because, at the end of the day, it’s not about how much you won or lost – all that matters is that you played the game! YEAH!
Anyway, here are the totals for hours clocked up (most of us managed to hit a 10 – EAGLES SCREAM! Steam rating on Steam – bear in mind that some CS:S hours were clocked by other members… I blame Nick Jones for the amount of Half-Life 2 hours. Far out, Nick!
We also managed to chew through about 750MB of data, for those interested
Anyway, there are other things to life besides gaming, they are outlined below:
Still waiting on my shipment of games from the US. For those of you that don’t know, PriceUSA is a great place to buy goods in the USA – basically, they buy the goods for you then ship the goods to your Australian address – handy for buying things online that don’t offer shipping to Australia. Really good stuff!
In terms of other social stuff from my social scene, there wasn’t much – I didn’t manage to go to many of my youth groups events, nor did I get much homework done. No, for me, these holidays were mostly about relaxing after the first term of year 12 – truly nerve-racking stuff!
On to the main topic, and it is the OC! In the holidays, one of the things I did manage to do was finish off Season Four of the OC. For those that don’t know, I actually purchase all four seasons of the OC on DVD at the start of this year in Adelaide… It cost me a bit, but boy, was it worth it!
Simply put, The OC is the best teen drama every made. Forget Home and Away, Neighbours, Degrassi, Dawon’s Creek, or any of those teen dramas you’ve seen, because The OC blows them all away. Search “teen drama” in google, and boom – The OC is second in the list. It practically defines teen drama!
Season 4 of The OC is awesome. It’s the culmination of the entire series, the spot where all the storylines are brought together and made so that you get to know what happens at the end. Does Summer marry Seth? Does Ryan go back to his old life? In a sense, the final scene of The OC brings the whole series back to the start – I won’t reveal any of the details here, but I will say that it’s really an apt finish to a great series – as was this post to the holidays.
Ooh – segue. See ya’ll tomorrow, comments below.