I was finally able to put together my new system. Gotta love quad-core with 12gigs of RAM! I need a third hard drive to put all of my dev projects, but I ran out of money. Fortunately, there is an IDE 500gig drive that I can plug in, until I get a new SATA drive sometime in the next couple months. I will be installing this drive tonight.

I upgraded my CMUD to CMUD Pro last night, and wanted to give it a spin. Went and tried it on StarMUD, my favorite MUD. It is sweet on my 28" monitors! I got a couple of them. It really help my old eyes. I'll see if I can get screenshots and pictures in the next few days.

I downloaded Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and installed it into a new Windows 7 virtual image. WheelMUD compiled without errors right away. I had the zero size database issue, but a quick file copy fixed that. It just amazes me that we got WheelMUD to work this well out of the box.

My health is a bag of mixed news. On one hand my headaches are getting worse, and have them every day. The Tinnitus keeps getting louder and louder. Fortunately, I found an Ear, Nose, Throat clinic that I feel comfortable with. I've scheduled an Endoscopic Sinus surgery for the 10th of December. I will be out aproximately one week. I'm hoping that this will deal with my isolation. Any strong smell makes me very sick, so I'm basically confined to my house and work. I can't go to malls, movies, and some restaurants, because I usually end up sick for a couple days afterward. I do know that my sinuses are swollen, and have been for several years. It just gotten much, much worse. I've eliminated a lot of posibilties, so that surgery is the last resort. The good news about this is that I'm both a good candidate, and that this endoscopic sinus surgery has had a LOT of sucess since it was implemented. I avoided getting the previous type of surgery, because it was basically just a roto-tiller up the sinuses.

Anyways, I will be ramping up my activity over here soon.