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Puppy Day minus 40
Jan. 25th, 2009 05:10 pmIt's been flurrying intermittently all day, and we're to expect snow and sleet tomorrow. Yuk. I was going to make a grocery run (mushroom curry this week) but decided to hold off. I've got enough sandwich fixings, cereal, and other staples to last me a couple of days if necessary.
I'm still stuck on the Noble level in Civ IV, but I've been experimenting with the parameters a little. Different sizes of world, different climates... the Duel style, one-on-one with another leader, is fun, and I've gotten my three highest scores that way. (Just scored 47K as Montezuma vs. Genghis Khan. I could make Jaguars without iron mines, but as soon as I broke in and pillaged his mine - he only had one - he was in serious trouble. I didn't even need catapults - just used human wave tactics.)
I've resumed my Bujold reread with Memory and now Komarr. There are a couple of odd bits in Memory which I really ought to bring up on the LMB list. I'm also rereading Barbara Hambly's vampire books, Those Who Hunt the Night and Traveling with the Dead. Good atmospherics, none of the "romantic vampire" tropes (well, maybe a little of the elegance in Don Ysidro...).
Among the webcomics whose archives I'm trawling is "Clan of the Cats". It's bookmarked two steps away from "Dogblog". (The latter is pretty funny; some guy in San Francisco just wanders around the city photographing dogs and posting the pictures with commentary. It's a mixed bag, but a good fraction of them are hilarious. I'm working backward through his archives.)
Meanwhile, my department is waiting for the other shoe to drop. Our budget for this fiscal year - the one that we've already spent about half of, mind you - just got a 3.5% cut, with the possibility of more to come this year and next. Some departments no longer have money for paper or for copying; our secretary's forethought saved us from that, but it's going to be tight for a while, the state's economy being what it is.
I'm still stuck on the Noble level in Civ IV, but I've been experimenting with the parameters a little. Different sizes of world, different climates... the Duel style, one-on-one with another leader, is fun, and I've gotten my three highest scores that way. (Just scored 47K as Montezuma vs. Genghis Khan. I could make Jaguars without iron mines, but as soon as I broke in and pillaged his mine - he only had one - he was in serious trouble. I didn't even need catapults - just used human wave tactics.)
I've resumed my Bujold reread with Memory and now Komarr. There are a couple of odd bits in Memory which I really ought to bring up on the LMB list. I'm also rereading Barbara Hambly's vampire books, Those Who Hunt the Night and Traveling with the Dead. Good atmospherics, none of the "romantic vampire" tropes (well, maybe a little of the elegance in Don Ysidro...).
Among the webcomics whose archives I'm trawling is "Clan of the Cats". It's bookmarked two steps away from "Dogblog". (The latter is pretty funny; some guy in San Francisco just wanders around the city photographing dogs and posting the pictures with commentary. It's a mixed bag, but a good fraction of them are hilarious. I'm working backward through his archives.)
Meanwhile, my department is waiting for the other shoe to drop. Our budget for this fiscal year - the one that we've already spent about half of, mind you - just got a 3.5% cut, with the possibility of more to come this year and next. Some departments no longer have money for paper or for copying; our secretary's forethought saved us from that, but it's going to be tight for a while, the state's economy being what it is.
