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LAN-party!
I'm on a LAN party with a friend of mine. Always good. Web of wires, little sleep and less daylight, hard working computers, eye-lids held open with tooth-picks and eating junk-food. LANning...
Spend the first day messing around allowing your PC to recuperate from the move and tell the PC's that they really are allowed to and supposed to talk each other. In the meantime split out the internet, plug a switch between everything and so on...
After your last fix- and clean project and booting for the first time, find out (to great amusement amongst your friends) your Windows is BSODing on the "Windows Logon Process" constantly with, who would've thought it, error code 0x00000000000000-etc.
Try to fix, but nooooooooo, Windows isn't and won't be planning on releasing your PC from it's desperate clutches.
Damn.
OF COURSE I disabled restore (and why shouldn't I, when was the last time I actually had good use of a multi-GiB collection of even more Windows on my already cramped HD?), I don't do repair installs after the accident I had where everything composed of either metal and/or silicium in my case appeared twice in the Device Manager, with all due consequences.
<sigh>
Put CD in... boot... "Windows now even faster and more reliable"... serial code... "Better stability and safety"... I'm living in Mongolia, thank you... "INTROMOVIE"... yeahyeahyeah AND NO I WILL NOT REGISTER AT THIS TIME!!!
But, OK, after about 2000 mouse clicks and 20 reboots where back in action...
Let The Games Begin!
O wait... I have to pull 6 GiB from the ethernet in game installs, expansions etcetera...
The good things about LAN parties already start with the preparations. And once you're settled you go adventuring with your friends in the world of Baldur's Gate, conquer the planet in Civilization III or just frag about in Call Of Duty.
Almost completely isolated from the outside world gives a LAN party actually a bit of that festival feeling. It's only when you walk outside, blinking against the extreme amounts of light suddenly pooring into your eyes, that you're back in the here and now. You spend the remainder of your time who-knows-where, and there's nothing wrong with that (it certainly beats doing hard-drugs anyway ;-) )
