Jen e-mailed me this a while ago.  Figured I'd fill this in since I haven't blogged in a while. I have to admit I think these are terrible questions and don't really reflect much about me.  So, to spice it up I've added some commentary and possibly pictures as well.

*3 Things About Me!*

*A.
Three names I go by:
1.  Frank
2.  Francis
3.  FTP <- I left that one in for any high school people :P

*B. 
Three places I've lived:
1. Bellevue, NE
2. San Pedro, CA
3. Vernon Hills, IL

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*C.
Three places I've worked
1.  US Census Bureau
2.  Midwest EMI Associates <- I redesigned that website!
3.  Fujisawa Healthcare <- Now has changed its name 3 times since I been there?
 
*D. 
Three places I have been:
1. Niagara Falls
2. Hundred Island National Park
3. Eiffel Tower

And the answer is: Yes, I did take that picture myself so it would look like the tower is growing out of my head.

*E. 
Three things I love to eat:
1.  Chicken Adobo
2.  Gummy Candy
3.  French Fries
Before:

After:

*F. 
Three people I think will respond:
... I think I broke this one by blogging it.
   
*G. 
Three things I'm looking forward to:
1. Dancing tonight with Julia
2. Seeing my friends new babies
3. Going to more churches with the Mass Chaos group.

*Now, here's what you're supposed to do...and please do not spoil the fun. Hit
forward, delete my answers and type in your answers. Then send  this to a
few  good friends or family INCLUDING the person who sent it to 
you.  You will  learn something about each other.*
 

With Starcraft II's impending launch on July 27, I figured it was worthwhile to blog that if you want to get in the mood to play the new game or if you just want to relive past glories... it's just a few clicks away if you still have your original discs.  This isn't exactly new, but it wasn't until this week where I employed this option.  The main reason being I have no idea where my discs are since they are still packed in a box I have yet to find.

The first step is to make a battle.net account.  I had already done this since I made the account hoping I'd get into the Starcraft II Beta (which, I did not). 

The second step is to actually key in your cd keys for all the games you have.  When you're logged in, all you have to do is click on 'Add or Upgrade a Game'

Once you've done that, you can install the game.  To begin this process, click on the 'Manage Game' link. And after you get to the game management screen you can get the downloader so you can download the game. 

The installer itself will be small, but when you run the installer it will download the game after that.  So be prepared to wait a bit for the actual download of the game to take place. 

After it downloads, you can install the actual game.  Before installation begins it will ask again for your key.  You can type it off your cd, or just copy and paste in the game key as listed in the game management screen.

Then after that you can play the game without having to dig around for your cd!

In addition to StarCraft and Wacraft III, I believe you can also load Diablo II and World of Warcraft.  And this works whether you have a PC or Mac. 

I played some Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne this evening with a friend.  I was more than a bit rusty, but it does its job by getting me more excited about the release of StarCraft II.  And I didn't even have to find my discs... double score!

One of my favorite TV shows is How I Met Your Mother.  Now, if you haven't already seen this week's episode, you can catch it on the cbs page.  Alright, you are not able to say I spoiled the episode if are too lazy to follow the link before reading the rest of this.

Part of what I like about the show is that the main character is that he fits my demographic: Single guy, early 30s, trying to make sense of it all.  The nice thing is that it is a comedy, so when it hits on the same troubles you run into...you know it will hit a funny note instead of the possible sour one it can.

It's that same thing I like that can also make it dangerous, like when it strikes a part of me that I don't look at that often.  At the end of the episode, it has this scene where everyone is shown toting around their own baggage.

It made me wonder what mine was.   The thing about baggage is that it changes over time.  So thinking about what baggage you had is a futile exercise.  However, thinking about what baggage you currently have, now there's a head scratcher. 

I can tell that mine has changed since I moved to Omaha, but what exactly that change is...I'm not quite sure.  It's kind of like in the episode, you don't really see your own until you see someone else's. 

Maybe someday soon again I will.