So About April 12th....

Fernando missed an update. It was the first case of schedule slip in history.

Fernando has a reason for this, not that it excuses anything. See, Fernando was on the internet browsing Fark one morning, we'll call the day in question April 12th, when his computer just sort of...quit. BOOM--instant transition from Fark comments thread to blank screen. Lady Luck had decided to pay Fernando a visit, it seems.

"Shit," said Fernando. He contacted his brother Alfonso posthaste. "Yeah, so, my computer stopped."

"Stopped?"

"Yeah, it's dead."

"Hang on. I'll check it out later."

Alfonso did, and he shook his head from side to side and had many words of chastisement for our hero. "Your video card is shot. Well, either that or the cable for your monitor. How old is that thing anyway?"

"I dunno. I think it's existed since like 2003 or '04. That's when the old tower came to be."

"What do you want to do?"

Fernando ponders for a moment. "How much are new computers? And not crappy ones?"

The following day, which happens to be Friday the 13th, Alfonso and Fernando sojourn to Bronze Pile and the Wal-Mart which exists there. Alfonso once worked in the electronics section there and he maintained contact with many of his old co-workers. Fernando stood nearby with a thumb up his ass as Alfonso and Co-Worker Jim discussed computer hardware and whatever, trying to come to a consensus as to which arrangement of packaging would provide the most bang for Fernando's buck.

In the end it was decided that Fernando pick up an Acer tower/monitor bundle. This purchase set him back a number of hundred of dollars, but Fernando was more than okay with it. A computer is necessary to the maintenance of the Dominion and it was way, way nicer than the barebones abomination that just died on him. As an added bonus, Fernando's monitor damn near doubled in size.

Then the brothers went to Burger King and it was the best Burger King experience ever for a great number of reasons, but the one which stood foremost was the discovery of Orange Rockslide, a delightful carbonated sugar-water concoction half of root beer and half of orange Hi-C which came into being only because Fernando had filled his cup halfway with orange sugar-water before Alfonso said to him, "You know they have Barq's, right?"

Pretty sweet day. Fernando is going to fire up LoL on it after work and see if it runs with the graphics setting set to something other than their absolute worst.