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Call of Duty: World at War - Weeknights vs Weekends

By jeff - Posted on February 16th, 2009

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The average skill level of weekend Call of Duty players is lower than that of the weeknight player. Since it was raining all weekend I sat down and played CoD for the better part of an afternoon. This is one of only a few chance’s I’ve had to play CoD on a Sunday afternoon. It became clear that the players are not as good as the weeknight people. I had a couple 40+ kill sessions with under 15 deaths. For me that is a pretty high kill rate.

The nice thing about the weekend is that there were a lot more players. There were consistently about 100,000 players which is quite a bit more than the 70,000 players I’m used to seeing on a weeknight. That gave me a chance to play some game modes that I don’t usually see like War and Ground War. Typically there are not many War players when I’m online (10PM Pacific = 1AM Eastern). If I try to play on a weeknight I cannot get a good connection to War/Ground War because there are only maybe 300 players in each game mode and it they all live in Australia (AUS clan signs). That limits my weeknight games primarily to 4 common modes: Deathmatch (free or team) and Headquarters, Search & Destroy.

I finally hit Level 65 with a total of about 2 days, 4 hours of game time. I’m going to savor Level 65 a while before I prestige up because it’s nice to finally have all the guns and the flamethrower. The flamethrower is awesome. Headshots with a double tap DP28 have been very easy to get.

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Prius after 13,000 miles

By jeff - Posted on January 4th, 2009

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After about 9 months and 13,000 miles the gas mileage on my Prius is stabilizing at in 40 MPG to 45 MPG range. For the first 3-4 months I started out in the 38 MPG range but after a road trip to Yosemite the engine my lifetime MPG settled firmly at 45.7 for a month or so. I just reset the gauge 2 weeks ago so now I’ll see if I can get back to 45 MPG or if that boost was due to the camping trip. I drive mostly highway miles on the weekdays and then a few miles for grocery runs on the weekends.

No noticeable problems or aggravations have come up yet.

I had a quarter stuck in the hinge of the front cup holder that prevented the cup holder from opening. That was incredibly aggravating because I like to flip use that cup holder a lot. I managed to dig it out of the hinge with a butter knife after 30 minutes of wrestling with it. Never put quarters in the front cup holder (the one that flips forward).