I am disappoint.

The story of my Saturday:

- Fell asleep around 3 AM after watching Star Trek and text-ranting to a friend.
- Woke up at 7 from another friend texting me. Was unable to go back to sleep.
- Turned on computer at 9 anyway to prep for beta-testing The Old Republic.
- Opened game launcher at 10:00 CST, when the test was to start.
- Dealt with fifteen minutes of trying to log in. Finally was able to get in (thank you, swtor.com, for taking so long to tell me that I needed account security questions before I could sign in).
- The launcher started downloading a video of some sort. Being that I'm living off Prov Internet, I expected it to take a while.
- Game crashed twice. Eventually uninstalled and re-installed the game. This involved me deleting Jedi Knight: Jedi Outcast, a few OpenOffice documents and uninstalling Portal 2 (which I'll now have to spend another three days re-downloading from Steam. Humph.)
- Two hours later and the video was about half-downloaded.
- Lurked on The Old Republic forums and fed the jealous nerd-monster within me with all the awesome accounts of what was going on inside the beta.
- Gave up on downloading and playing around this point.

So, long story short, technology hates me and I didn't get to play The Old Republic. But now I'm considering buying the game anyway, because it's evidently rather excellent.

After I get a laptop that will actually be guaranteed to PLAY the game. (And Knights of the Old Republic, and Battle for Middle-earth II, and possibly The Force Unleashed.)

*le sigh* *nerd-sulk*