To keep this short, my computer may have died. It powered down during a thunderstorm and now the external hardware (mouse, keyboard, monitor) do not even turn on after the computer has been restarted. I probably won't be able to play on the server with you guys for a long time. Sorry Bexn . Hopefully this can be resolved soon enough to enjoy the rest of my winter break. Have fun and mine on!

Scratch that, it shut down again and would not even power up at all. I switched out the power supply in hopes that was what was broken. However, it had no effect. It must be the motherboard that burned out. I won't be able to replace that as readily even if I could. Just a status update.