It's time to get your Zombie On! This Friday the Fighting 69th is having it's first ever LAN 4 Dead Party. We tried to have one a while back but it never worked out. Now we have 8 people signed up to dismember one another all night. If you can't tell I'm super excited.

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What happened to April? Geez, I've felt like one of those "Life Comes At You Fast" commercials more than once in the last couple of months. I haven't been motivated to do very much of anything. Maybe I need to see the doctor.

Protocol 42 has a new permanent home! They have rented out a warehouse over by the freeway to host monthly LAN parties again. Poop and I went this last Saturday for the first party. Things are still somewhat "under construction" but it turned out really good and we had a fun time. At least, I had fun after playing Computer Tech for 2.5 hours trying to get my PC working. The cpu got jostled in transit and was giving me fits. Poop left early and I had to PUG the L4D tournament but that didn't stop me from winning :D I'm not sure I will go every month but I'm kind of excited to see how things come together there. The table design really worked well and gave us plenty of room to stretch out. I would encourage anyone that wants to get some frag on to check it out. The P42 guys are pretty cool and they are doing a great thing for the PC scene in Utah.

The World of WarCraft rolls ever onward. About half of the Fighting SixtyNinth players have taken a break for various reasons. A few have returned, but things are not how they left them. PriestyJenny and Mormir have changed guild tags to SycK to raid more with them. Bolg has taken on a leadership role within SycK and is now coordinating the raids. I've decided to step back and not raid right now. It was getting to frustrating and wasn't any fun. I've also had a lot of work things going on and haven't had the drive to come home and raid.

Titahn and Atrestra have a cute new baby girl; Alexis Skye. Gratz on making a noob! Remember, two is the new two, despite what c1as1c says.

This weekend the Orc Family is making a brief trip to Cedar to see my family. The plan is to be back in time to Settle Catan or something like that at Mathazar's place. Don't be fooled by the casualness, this is one of those "Guy's Night Out" sort of occurrence that happens once in a blue moon. So take advantage and come get your (board)game on!

[-F69-]bl00k

March has flown by. St. Patrick's day came and went so fast and now we are on the home stretch. Ashton's birthday is just a week away. One year already!

Blooklyn has acquired full tier 7.5 gear from Naxx 25 man. I'm pretty stoked for that. I've never had the top tier set until it was no longer the top tier. We are making more progress in Naxx 10 man. We have now cleared Spider, Military and Construct wings. I think we will start working on Plague this week. Also, we will be continuing Naxx on Sunday's instead of running VoA and OS.

I've reinstalled Company of Heroes and have been enjoying playing an RTS again. It would be cool to get some multiplayer games in if anyone has it. We could just play some coop against some CPU's so we don't get our feel bads hurt by getting spanked by real people online. Anyway, CoH is a great game if you like RTS's.

Last I just wanted to mention our friend EPiC. It has almost been a year since he left us. I still miss him, a lot. Time has dulled the pain quite a bit for me and when I think about him I think about all the good times we had. I think about him when I'm doing something that he would have liked doing too. I hope he gets to see what I'm doing and smile knowing that I'm thinking of him.

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It's been a while, but we are still here and going strong.

Our WoW exploits have included running Naxxramas in both 10 and 25 man raids. Another failed guild alliance with Mental Vacation has left me wondering if I'm chasing rainbows. Then out of pure random chance we fell in with some people that were putting together a Naxx 25 man PUG. A handful of F69ers made it in and we have been running weekly with them. The group leaders are from SycK and they are now considering us as guild allies with them. We haven't really done anything formal to establish what that "alliance" is, but they look to us first when filling their raid and it has been working out for both parties involved even if it isn't exactly like we would like to do things.

Left 4 Dead has some DLC coming our way this Spring which will add a new game mode called Survivor and finish off the two campaigns that didn't have Versus Mode by adding it to them. I was hoping for 2 All New campaigns, but I'll take what I can get. I love this game.

I still haven't had a LAN 4 Dead yet, but I'm hoping to do that at some point. I'm currently trying to split my game time between WoW, L4D, DoD:S, Bioshock, and TF2. Speaking of TF2; they just got the new Scout Update. I played a bit today but haven't unlocked anything yet. I try to be on XFire as much as possible when I game so if you want to join me feel free.

[-F69-]bl00k

Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you are enjoying the holiday with your families. The Orc family stayed home this year, partly because I was On Call for work. It is really nice to have Christmas at our own home though, especially with the kids. I think it is better when they get to sleep in their own beds.

On the WoW side of things the Fighting SixtyNinth is making a new attempt at a guild alliance, this time with Mental Vacation. We are hoping to work together to allow us all to see some of the 25 man raid content. The guild leader, Enarrah, is an RL friend of Eviljenny's. I have high hopes that this time things will work out for the alliance. Currently most of us are still working on leveling to 80. Eviljenny was our guilds first 80. Primux took a little longer, but he was working on a trilogy; Primux, Primalt and Thundarr. Evil quickly came back with Priestyjenny ding'ing 80. I just hit 76 tonight. le sad.

One hindrance I've had to leveling in WoW is Left 4 Dead. This game is just awesome! Zombies, Coop, VS, etc. I am totally enjoying it, even though it has only four campaigns. Bolg has been playing it with me as well as a few others. Still, I've recommended it to everyone I know. I would like to host a L4D LAN party in the near future with either 4 or 8 people. I think this is a game EPiC would have loved. Wish you were here to play bro.

Quick mention for Pandasar on getting engaged. Griznats Dude! I hope she games, or will at least let you game. If she doesn't game, just get her started on The Sims, worked for Owneress ;)

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I've been made aware that the forum is not working. I checked with the host and there are issues with the server and they are looking into it. However you can still access the forum with a new link http://fighting69.proboards.com. From what I understand they are moving towards having all servers without the number in the address, so it is likely that this address will be what is used from here on out. I'm updating the BBS links on all the pages so you'll be able to just click on the link up there to get to the forums. If you have a bookmark saved directly to the forum you might want to update it.

Halloween is tomorrow. Fetus/Beelzeubub is having a big party that he's invited the squad to. I won't be making it since we are taking the kids trick or treating and then staying home.

This weekend is the Protocol 42 LAN party. They've scaled these back to once a year, but they are still huge. I am thinking that I am going since it's been a while since I've attended one. It's fun to get out and see new people, see their computers, and they are having a costume contest because it is so close to Halloween. If you want to come let me know, I'd love the company.

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I'm not sure why I haven't updated the site in so long. Part of me was sad every time I came to the page and saw the post about the Truly "EPiC" cLAN Party. I still miss him a bunch and think of him a lot. I know he would have given me crap for not updating though.

There has been a lot happening on the WoW front. Our humble little guild has completely cleared Karazhan. We have started on Zul'Aman and have killed the first boss and are working on the second. This last weekend we had the pleasure of getting our guild name changed. Apparently someone felt that Fighting SixtyNinth was inappropriate. Of course this was done at 1:32 AM Saturday morning so we had to wait all weekend to contact Blizzard Support on Monday. I was able to have Blizzard reinstate our guild name. It makes me wonder if there was some bitter Alliance out there that got ganked one too many times by the [-F69-] ;)

s3k had a birthday back on the 17th and mine is coming up on the 25th. I had plans to see Rancid both nights they were playing in SLC last week but they cancelled both shows. Matt Freeman injured his arm was the word. I'm still bummed about it a week later. le cry. Owneress tried to plan a B-Day LAN, but it seems that this weekend is not good for anyone. We'll try again another time.

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A Truly "EPiC" cLAN Party is but days away. Are you prepared?

You should be, I've begged and pleaded with you to get BFV installed, patched and the WWII mod installed and tested on the server. Things should run smoothly on Saturday. I'm getting really excited for the party.

I've only received one item to be embroidered with our [-F69-] tag from s3k. I know Bolg wants to get one too and will be bringing it with him when he comes so these won't be done by Saturday. I'll make sure to get anyone's stuff back to them.

Penny Arcade released their game today; On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness. I've only played it for a little bit, but I'm quite impressed with how well the art made the transition to the third dimension. It looks really nice and I'm excited to play it.

We've been discussing a Squad Game Night on the forums, behind closed doors. I'm thinking if we do come up with something we'll post it publicly so anyone can come and play with us if they want to. More to come later on that.

I've been inspired by phr0st to work more on the site and a possible overhaul. We've been working on some things tonight. Who knows where this will lead, but one can only hope it is somewhere good for the squad.

[-F69-]bl00k

It is about time for an update.

We blessed Ashton this last Sunday and it was great to have everyone over that could make it. We got to meet "the girl" when she came with Mathazar. She was very out-going and super nice. She makes a real good first impression. Everything seemed to go well despite not having enough seats for everyone. Thanks again to those of you who brought food and drinks.

It has been over a month since EPiC passed away. I find myself still thinking about him a lot. I get sad about it, but I'm ok. The funeral was great and I really needed it. We decided as a squad that we would hold a Truly "EPiC" cLAN Party in his honor. The event is going to be May 24th and we have a record number of people coming. There hasn't been a LAN with this many of us since the Computech days. Even Bolg is flying in from Oregon! It's too bad EPiC won't be fragging with us, but I think he'll be smiling down at us while we are having a good time in his memory. We thought of some of EPiC's favorite games and ended up going with Battlefield Vietnam with the WWII Mod. That should be good because it is old enough to run on anyone's hardware, it has bots so we won't have people QQ'ing about me pwning them all night, and EPiC did injoy that game.

Work on the basement has progressed a lot. My brother laid the carpet last weekend. We got the painting done, just need to touch up some areas. The carpet is pretty dirty and needs to be shampooed but I've been taking a break this week from working down there.

Well, I'm looking forward to the cLAN Party. I think it will be a lot of fun to get the squad together for some gaming.

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