One Half Buddhist, One Half Christian, One Half Pagan

Body: Today, I think I'm doing OK.

Reading: Still working on In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692, by Mary Beth Norton.

Hearing: Fresh Air

Wearing: Today's perfume is BPAL's Aglaea, from the GRATIÆ sub-section of their Excolo line (scroll down almost to the bottom of the page). The lab describes it as Three golden ambers, bright musk, peach wine and myrtle.. I think it's a lovely, fruity, sweet-tart scent.

Etsy find: Pool Earrings

Tonight's Project: Some Sims.

Project Follow-up: Dinner was good, but I didn't really do anything afterward.

Reading: The Vizier of the Two-Horned Alexander, a odd story by the man who wrote "The Lady and the Tiger"

Book Review: I finished Spiritwalk, by Charles De Lint last night. It was pretty good, but I think I would have appreciated it more if I'd read Moonheart, the earlier book about the same group of characters. It's not exactly a sequel, but I could tell that my understanding of the backstory would have been better with the earlier book.

Hearing: Random music today. I didn't really feel like hearing anything I'd have to think about.

Etsy find: SteamedGlass - He makes really cool moss terrariums, mostly out of old lightbulbs. Thanks to shadesong for pointing him out to me and all of her other readers.

Tonight's Project: A few small projects for Swap-bot. Also, dishes.

Project Follow-up: I did spend large chunks of the weekend playing Sims 3. It has some things I like better than Sims 2, and the stuff I like less I suspect is just because I'm not used to it yet.

Anyone out there want the original Sims game?

I'm offering the base game, all of the expansion packs, and the Prima game guides for $20.

Let me know.

Saturday Tom placed the order for all the bits and pieces that he's going to put together into a new computer for me. I told him what I want it to be able to do, and what price range I wanted to stay in, but he made all the specific decisions about what to get.

Last night the case arrived. I expect all the various innards will show up through the rest of the week.

I did a little reading, and figured out that the easiest way for me to get all my Sims 2 stuff from the old computer to the new is to network the two computers together and then just move the files manually. I'm definitely going to move the houses and things that I've downloaded, but I'm not sure about if I'm going to move the families that I've been playing. It might be interesting to start fresh.

I also recently learned about the Legacy Challenge. Now, the basic concept of seeing if you can keep one family going for 10 generations is pretty cool, but I don't really like all of the restrictions they put on it. No custom furniture? No cheats? (Although, the only cheats I ever use are both allowed, with restrictions.) No mods? My plan is to try it with the stuff I have, and if I can actually make a game last that long with my extras then I'll try by the rules.

Sorry I haven't posted for a while. Life is continuing much as it has this past age.

Last week I finally bought Sims 2. I got it home, got it installed, and was told that I didn't have a good enough video card to actually play it. So, with Tom's advice I picked out a new one from NewEgg.com and waited for it to show up. UPS got it to Albany fairly quickly, but they don't seem to have grasped that if you need a signature from the person who the package is addressed to, and they aren't home at 1:00 in the afternoon the first time you try, maybe you should try delivering it in the evening.

I eventually went and picked it up at the UPS offices in Latham. Tuesday night I installed it under Tom's supervision (while he was trying to do about 5 other things at once, thanks love!). The actual object installed easily enough, but the software was a bit more challenging. We finally got it running, and I was able to play my new game.

Sims 2 is interesting. The play is much more dynamic than in Sims 1, and you need to pay closer attention to what your little people are doing.

I may do a more detailed review after I've been playing longer.