My restored PC has been up and running for a few weeks now with no problems. I am quite pleased with the new drive. My PC has been getting some use playing the rather beautiful FPS: Crysis. It has been added to my goal list.
The beautiful graphics combine with a stellar physics engine and almost sandbox style gameplay to make a really fun FPS experience. To give you an example of how the physics create some interesting situations, I present a moment from the game that made me laugh outloud - completely unscripted, purely caused by the physics interactions:
I was standing outside a small building, perhaps it was even a shanty, and I could hear the voices of enemies inside. I throw a grenade inside, figuring the building would contain the blast. The grenade explodes, but also causes the building to collapse, the corrugated metal walls firing outward. I am hit by one of these and knocked several meters backwards ... off the edge of a 20 foot cliff. I land with a sliver of health left. I look up just in time to watch in comic horror as a tree, also a victim of the blast, falls over smack on my face. Pure awesome.
In other news, I golfed for the first time in 14 or 15 years this past Friday. While I shot pretty poorly (68 on a par 36 9 holes) I did a lot better than I anticipated, and had a lot of fun to boot. The only down side is that a combination of muscles were asked to move repeatedly in ways they are not used to, and are complaining a bit today ;)
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