Introducing the Ethanboroughs

Eldric used to be quite an adventurer in his younger days, and has gone to many dangerious places with his wife. That is until his wife got killed while adventuring with him, leaving him with their only child. Realizing he can no longer live his life recklessly and dangerously, he settled in Sunset Valley to bring up his only son.



(Here is Eldric at his son's wedding. As formal as he gets, looking like a rock & roll biker gang member.)












While they are similar Cedric is different from his father. Although a physically active man, he is a lot more down to earth and has a much more serious outlook on life itself. Good natured & honest. His friends respect him as an upstanding member of the community. His colleagues recognize him as a hardworking and determined police officer.
Yet all of them wished he had a little sense of humor.

(Cedric could sure use a diet if he hopes to become supercop)

Breaking more than you can fix...

Its disappointing & downright frustrating when technical hiccups occur with your computer or the softwares..
Its even more disappointing when a particular software publisher is always giving its consumers unending streams of reasons to get frustrated... This company has to be none other than EA.

After several troubleshoots and scouring the internet to look for solutions to play my Sims 3 games the way I wanted.. I was able to enjoy the game for the past couple of months.

Occasionally, I check the store to download some new stuff to add more variety to my game.
So whats the store? As the name implies it is actually an EA online shop where you can purchase in-game objects that you can add to your game.

I.e: special themed furniture, patterns, walls section etc etc.. These in-game objects cost a variable amount of Sims Point, depending on the item itself. And Sim points can be paid for in real life cash or redeemed when you purchase the Sims 3 Base game or any Sims 3 expansion packs. Every 100 sims point is equivalent to $1 USD.

However, it was almost two months ago I noticed that the download is not working but I pay it no heed as I thought it had something to do with my game version not being the latest.
After purchasing one of the expansions, I was quite eager to play the game again.

Loaded up my expansion CD, installed it. Patched it to the latest version and tried download from the store again. Unfortunately... patching didn't help and all I got was this error below..


Puzzled, I search the internet for solutions and tried almost every solution suggested as I wanted to play the game badly with the new spiffy items that I always wanted to buy. Regrettably nothing worked even after I un-install the game and re-install it.

The only thing I have yet try is to format my entire Hard-disk and re-install every software imaginable to get the PC running again. Which I doubt will be of much help either... knowing EA, this is probably something they did again.

After scouring the internet forums, I realize I'm not the only person with this issue. While some aren't affected. There are several posters in the forum that reported this issue almost coming close to 3 months ago. This lead me to think that this issue has been un-resolved for a fairly long time.

Sigh... I should have known... afterall its EA and they always ended up breaking what they set out to fix with the patches... and most often it is us the community / end user who ends up fixing it for them... And they are suppose to be PROFESSIONALS being employed... but have no solution to the mess they created.

I'm guessing with such poor support for their products they don't want our business... Its too bad I can't just walk away as I love playing the Sims too much.

Thus, I'm back to gripping about my happiness through the internet.

Introducing: The Gaelera

Rei'vein was once an outspoken writer who is critical of his country's corrupted regime. His publications offended the government and he became a target of assassinations. Due to unforeseen circumstances & miscalculations the assassins killed his wife instead.

Rei'vein then became a refugee and fled from his country & arrived to Sunset Valley to start anew.

This event changed him greatly, as he was once vocal and out-going individual and has now became a recluse shunning the company of others. His two daughters are the only thing he has to remind himself of his wife and he became a writer of trashy novels to bring bread home to the family.



Alerialle the eldest, had the hair of her mother but possessing her father's intellect & temper of his earlier younger days. Training hard to be an investigator she hopes to one day find closure to her mother's mysterious death and bring the perpetrators to justice.
As a result of her determination and ambition, she has became one of the most successful forensic scientist who uses her skill to aid crime-fighters.




(Seen here at her teenage days, she eyes an empty plate with an incredulous smirk)












The youngest, Azuriel had an uncanny resemblance to her mother the most with the exception of her golden tresses. Family & friends matter a great deal to her and she has always took great care of their needs. A natural talent with music, she eventually became a renown composer, writing several moving scores that are used in blockbusters.

(A cake alone might not be enough, and she always make sure she prepared extra food for the guest. )

Corrupted Windows CD?

That might have explained the missing windows programs.. though I'm not 100% positively sure. But just 2 weeks ago the computer mysteriously freeze when I was surfing the internet. When I attempt to reboot it, it kept giving me "unmountable boot errors" and amongst other undecipherable errors.

I can't live w/o the computer or much less the internet... and the thought of having to refurbish an entirely new machine would cost me 2 grand. Harrowing indeed. So I jot down all the errors and scour the internet for solutions, I found some but most of them didn't work or could not be applied at all.

Until finally my brother lent me his old Windows XP installation CD to boot from and attempt to repair from there. Viola!!! The computer has been restored and fixed. Although it still crashes occasionally, at least it works. So it seems like the CD that I had originally installed my may have been corrupted over time while sitting in the CD case.

To be on a safe side, I think I should start cultivating an interest for out-door activities soon.. lest I become overly reliant on the computer in this digital age.

Introducing: The Belmonts

Keepers of ancient and long forgotten lore. The Belmonts are tasked with safekeeping the future of humanity from evil that threatens the world.
They employ any means necessary to deal with these threats swiftly, and often very discretely. Secretive to the core and hidden in plain sight from the public. No one knows of their existence except for a the few rare and privileged ones who are privy to such confidential information.

With the forces of darkness seemingly fading into obscurity, the Belmont have became even more so forgotten. Thus they assume mundane lives like the everyone around them and remain ever vigilant for new threats..


Richter thought that he was prepared to make sacrifices in the name of the Belmont cause. However, when his wife was killed while on a mission to eradicate the forces of darkness.
Only then did he realize that he was not prepared to lose those he loved.

Although he prevailed against the villains, he never overcame his grief and trauma. At the end of the ordeal he became a changed man and started to become less and less involved with upholding the Belmont cause. His son, Carleox was his only memory of his deceased wife and he vowed to bring him up as a fine man.
(Here is Richter at his own home in sleeping robes.
Thinking that he is in the privacy of his own home, he scratches his itchy butt not worrying about decorum.)

Carleox is the only child that Richter ever had. Aware of his role to continue as a guardian, Carloex kept himself in top physical condition and hone his skills like a blade. By joining the military and becoming an astronaut. He will be able to use space satellite in the surveillance of any signs of evil.

(Carleox seen during his teenage years celebrating his birthday with his father and friends. It seems like he has a nefarious plan on his mind.)