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Well, lets just start off by saying it's been one frustrating day.......

Anyway lets begin with how my day started

When I woke up in the morning it I was keen as jelly beans to get stuck straight into my Bootcamp program. First thing I did was jump in the shower to wake up and go down to the shops to get some cereal to start my day off along with a nice big glass of Orange Juice!

Getting amped up to play some SC2 I wanted to warm my hands up first on the SC2Gears "Mouse Practice Game." May I just say, I only just realized your meant to right click on the red dots.... durrrp! Before I wasn't clicking the red ones at all as I was losing points for "left clicking" on them. haha!

Once my hands were all warmed up I proceeded to load up SC2 in anticipation to learn some new builds! I gotta admit, I was pretty pumped up and excited to start as I knew I wouldn't have any interruptions from the girlfriend as she is on holidays. So at this point everything was running smoothly until I played my first game.........

May I just say, I HATE MY F&^KING COMPUTER!...... Yep first game my computer crashed! Blue Screen of Death and I have no idea how to fix it. Pretty sure I actually need a new Graphics Card, the BSOD is telling me nvddkldm.exe (something like that) has crashed which is basically a service that supports my graphics card. Before anyone asks, yes I tried updating my GFX drivers and I having been dealing with the crap AAAALLLLLL DAAAAAYYY! So no fix as of yet

However, I wasn't going to let this ruin my plan. I restarted my computer and went straight into ladder mode.... again!

Now before I go on, I should let you know that today was solely to focus on learning these builds. I didn't care about scouting and reacting at all as I simply just wanted to learn the builds.

T v Z - I have been practicing the reactor hellion fe build. May I just say, so many Zergs seem to favour infestors over Mutalisks nowadays! Whats with that? I was quiet comfortable defending Muta harass, you could more of less say it was my comfort zone to defend Muta harass.

T v T - Oh god, this has a been a blunder for me today. My eyes were on the notepad more then they were on the screen! LOL! I just can't seem to get the food counts embedded into my brain! I think I'm going to need much more T v T practice with my 1 Rax FE build.

T v P - Wow.... all I can say is WOW! I know in the previous blog I said I'd work on both the 1 Rax FE build and the 2 Rax pressure transition build. But, because the all-in build has had me interested for a while now, this all all I have been practicing in my T v P matches. I have been executing this build imo with Bronze level execution, yet taking wins off Platinum level Protoss. Once I can stop looking at my book for the food counts, I'm going to love having this build up my sleeve!

Now, in the next blogs to come I won't ramble on shit like I have here and get straight to matches and discuss where I need to improve. However, currently I don't think there is much to look into yet as I'm just trying to learn the builds atm.

But.... I will mention one replay.

This was a T v P match on "Korhal Compound" where I executed the best all-in build I have done all day. Yes the initial pressure did loads of damage, but from this replay I learned a valuable lesson;

If you can hide your buildings and army without any risks... do it! For those who watch this replay, yes I did LOADS of damage with my intial pressure. All because he didn't spot my 2nd Rax AND he didn't spot how many units I had early on. The fact he also went for an early expand I'll admit contributed to this builds success. Now I won't spoil too much for you guys as I think the replay is worth watching, but I will post up this screen shot of after game abuse from my Protoss opponent.

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There is also more cranky comments from my opponent in-game. I did have a bit of a giggle about it, but I won't spoil for you. Oh, before I forget here is the link to d/l the match and watch it;

http://www.sc2sea.com/replays.php?do=viewreplay&id=707

Usually I'd go ahead and upload all the games I have played today for you guys to crit me on. But atm, i don't think it's even worth it as I'm STILL trying to actually learn the openings and remember the food counts.

However, I will still post up my SC2 gear stats for the day; (Games where my comp crashed are also included)

Games played: 17 (My aim was to play 30, but my computer kept crashing ><)

TvP w/r: 42%
TvZ w/r: 50%
TvT w/r: 25%

So, yeah.... you could say this was a terrible day for me. But, taking into consideration of learning new builds plus my computer crashing throughout some games. I think this is OK as at the least I made a start on learning these builds.

Well, that's pretty much all I have for this entry. Sorry if it wasn't exciting guys but I'm just a little tired atm from trying to figure out how to fix this PC. I promise once I can fix this piece of crap, I'll have more quality content, but as for now I'm pretty much on a low.

Oh before I go, I should leave you guys with this... http://www.lunatruth.com/ I just watched Apollo 18, very interesting Movie. If you like conspiracies I'm sure you will love this and I recommend the Movie. Yes, I switched this Movie on after raging at my computer for crashing 2 Starcraft games in a row! LOL!

Peace out! Tomorrow is a new day!