Kirel Redhand's Blog (4)

Hello from the overworld. Yes, it's me. I am Kirel, aka Patrick and let me tell you, life has been different these past 8 weeks. I am down to 216lbs (so says the unofficial scale here at my Moms). Considering I started(feb 6th) at 360lbs - thats a HUGE difference. Last week, the morning I turned 38, I climbed Mt. Constitution, on Orcas Island. It's not a huge or snowcapped mountain, but for me, it was a major accomplishment, the first of many. I've gotten into this thing called GeoCacheing. Yo… Continue

I can remember the first video game I played on the Computer. It was Zaxxon. The computer was an Apple IIe, it had "16 colors!!!!* and my monitor was an old TV that barely worked. I was 11 years old and I was in heaven. On that day, a geek was born. My childhood was a good one. My parents didn't make a lot of money and we didn't have a lot of clothes or toys or things of that nature. For that matter, we lived in upstate Washington along Highway 20, way out in the boonies, less than 300 yards… Continue

I love PVP. But I don't love it to exclusion of all else. If I did, pretty much any shooter would satisfy me, because there is nothing more pure and more competitive in nature than a good shooter. I also need to be able to grow my character, not only in skillsets, but in personality and how he interacts with the world around him. I need to be able to delve into a character, to put my psyche inside and tweak it some, producing an artificial and stylized version of me: One that feels real and one… Continue

What in the heck do I want to say? Lets start with this. Sometimes, people can be so proprietary that they fail to see the big picture and thus lose the abilty to take action when it counts. I've got this issue at work that is driving me nuts. As most of you know (or at least many of you), by trade, I am a ClearCase Administrator. Roughly a month ago, while testing out a new version of ClearCase to support the latest RHEL version of Linux (RHEL4 -u5), I ran across a flash alert from IBM sta… Continue