Armagetron

A friend and coworker launched me into Armagetron. Well, into a computer game version of lightcycles, from the fabulous 1982 film Tron. The game is freeware, available for download from Sourceforge. It's an adrenalin rush to play. Teamplay with friends is completely awesome!

Goldeneye: Source

With CounterStrike: Source, comes the ability to create some amazing modifications to the game. Modding first person shooters has been happening for a long time (e.g. mapeditor for Wolfenstein 3D), and some of the best games of the past are being ported to the playability of the future. To wit, there is a modding community dedicated to bringing Goldeneye to the Halflife 2 game engine. Which hopefully will makes its way onto the new server.

CounterStrike: Source

I've been playing a bit of CS:Source of late. It's the standard first person shooter. The graphics are decent, and the gameplay interaction is good. There are alot of options to make the game fun and exciting. Several of my Boise friends play, and so we are in the process of setting up our own server.

Secesh Hot Springs

Third time's the charm with the Search for the Secesh Hot Springs. Nestled deep in the mountains of Idaho, high on a secluded mountainside, these springs are rarely visited. In fact, they are snowed in for almost half the year. The hike is a four mile trip downstream from a backwoods trailhead, over rocky, meandering hiking paths. Then you get to ford the Secesh river, which is painfully cold. Next you have to scale the mountainside up to the springs. Though the reward is a pool with a very nice view!

Secesh Excursion 2

The GPS coordinates were bogus! That's the conclusion we arrived at after marching up and down the hillside for a few hours. Yesterday was consumed with another attempt at finding the missing hot springs. This time we had a GPS and mountain bikes to facilitate easier access. Though the trail was a little rough for the mountain bikes, especially coming back in light of a full moon. We have alot more information now, inculding alias names of the missing hot springs, so perhaps our next encounter will be more relaxing.

Secesh Excursion

Went trekking for a Hot Springs yesterday. This one is in the hard to get to classification. It's called Secesh Hot Springs. It was a long hike into the area where the springs are supposed to be. My directions were a bit scarce, as a result I ended up scaling the wrong hill. Perhaps I should have checked the coordinates in a topographical map. I've checked there before, but didn't this time. It was a nice march, though now my feet are a bit sore.

Books 9-12-06

This summer, I was teaching a Bible Study Methods class, and worked up a curriculum to help the students where the school's was lacking. Now I'm working on finishing it and polishing it up. Perhaps with the intention of teaching a class at a local church. So, I've been reading several of the books which I picked up this summer.
After the large ammount I read this summer while in Nigeria, I've been a little reticent to read.

 Being mollified with the trappings of modern American life. Though I recently picked up The Last Plantagenets and The Three Edwards by Thomas B. Costain. And the Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, and also a very interesting Heraldy, Ancestry and Titles by L.G. Pine. Hopefully these varied and interesting books will coax me into reading some more.