One Half Buddhist, One Half Christian, One Half Pagan

I just opened a box from Amazon containing:
- Sims 3 Fast Lane Stuff
- Sims 3 High-End Loft Stuff
- Sims 3 Late Night
- Sims 3 Outdoor Living

I'll see you all in a week. :)

*starts installing*

As near as he and I can figure, he has successfully un-virused my computer! Thank you, Love!

My home computer seems to think that Gmail doesn't exist. I try to go to the site, and I get a 404 not found error. I've tried both Firefox and Opera, and I'll try Explorer when I get home from work. Google's other sites/tools seem to work just fine that don't require logging in seem to work, but it won't even let me try the ones that do. I need to try at work and see if it's my computer or my account that's broken.

I've been meaning to post about this for a while:

Tom's server is dead, so his blog and the private family blog are both down for the foreseeable future.

I'll let folks know when he has a replacement up and running.

Tom's server is down, so his website is off line for a while.

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.