The last few days I’ve been waiting anxiously for the reopening of HKO… I can’t believe it’s almost here! I’m so excited to get in-game again and see all the new changes, the cities they’ve opened, to visit my farm, to see all my CB friends and make some new ones, to get chased around by lunatic scorpions….

I’m a little apprehensive, though - not about the game itself, of course, but because this will be my test run of running a Windows program on a Mac; this morning I booted up my family’s XP disc and installed it onto my computer with VMfusion. Visually it’s pretty cool, especially because of the unity feature that hides the Windows interface and just leaves me with the Windows application screens floating around with all my usual programs. I’ve never done it before, though, and I have no idea how fast or well it’s going to run. The installation seems to be going by veeeeeerry sloooooooowly, but I’m not sure if that’s normal, or because I should close some other programs, or maybe because I glossed over some configuration steps in my excitement to get the client up and moving which, not gonna lie, is totally possible. But even being able to get in and play tonight slowly rather than not at all is great, so I’ll take it any which way!

And of course, I’m worried someone will snatch up my name from CB, which would make me so sad. I can’t imagine getting used to going by something new, let alone forever and ever and ever. (Ok… at least for FB.) So I hope at the very least everything will run quickly enough to let me hop on and at least secure my name. If I can do that, even if it’s slow, I’ll be very happy… I can always figure out how to speed things up later.

But, of course… even in the worst case scenario, with a super slow client and a new name, I’ll still be getting to play HKO again! So no matter what, it’ll be a fun next couple days.

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