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Miscellany
Oct. 31st, 2011 06:59 pmAs usual around here, the trick-or-treaters came last night. It was kind of chilly, so I figured on a low turnout, but I had more than thirty kids come to the door. (Some of them barely qualified as "kids", from one side or the other....) Most of the three bags of candy I'd bought went, so there's been less temptation than usual today.
I just finished another game of Civ IV, and a rather satisfying one at that. My score wasn't that high - only about 8K - but I was playing as Qin Shi Huang, who is, for some reason, difficult for me. He's not the toughest - that's Victoria - but the Financial trait is not one I'm comfortable with. Also, this was one of the few games in which I've used my navy effectively and proactively. I was cruising towards a Cultural Victory; the only danger was from Montezuma, over on the other continent. He had the second highest score, and Demographics suggested that his military was about twice the size of mine. Anyway, I had a caravel doing an exploratory sweep, and noticed a huge buildup of troops - mostly cavalry and catapults - in one of his port cities. Oho, says I, and I planted the caravel in position to keep an eye on things. Sure enough, a while later an invasion fleet set out - two frigates and two fully-loaded galleons; I set the caravel trailing them until I knew where they were headed. I crammed all the coastlands near their goal with military to make sure they couldn't make an unopposed landing, and when they crossed the border and Monty declared war, I swarmed them with my ironclads. Only a few units from that fleet made it to land (and none from the second wave, right behind them), and before they could even move I wiped them out as well. By the time he recovered from that disaster, I was starting to produce destroyers. He tried another invasion, which I destroyed mid-ocean, and his destroyers - when he got around to making them - didn't survive for long either.
Walking the dogs this morning, I encountered the elderly fellow who lives kitty-corner from me. He's rather frail, but he loves my pups. He was giving an airing to one of his daughter's dogs, a large but diffident fellow named Dusty. Buster and Gracie eagerly bounded over to say hello.... Let's just say we're lucky nobody - especially Gracie and my neighbor - got hurt. We cut the usual conversation short after that.
The MassMutual account has kicked in; the appropriate deduction was made from today's paycheck. Looks good, so far.
Heigh-ho. Time to start battening down for the coming cold weather.
I just finished another game of Civ IV, and a rather satisfying one at that. My score wasn't that high - only about 8K - but I was playing as Qin Shi Huang, who is, for some reason, difficult for me. He's not the toughest - that's Victoria - but the Financial trait is not one I'm comfortable with. Also, this was one of the few games in which I've used my navy effectively and proactively. I was cruising towards a Cultural Victory; the only danger was from Montezuma, over on the other continent. He had the second highest score, and Demographics suggested that his military was about twice the size of mine. Anyway, I had a caravel doing an exploratory sweep, and noticed a huge buildup of troops - mostly cavalry and catapults - in one of his port cities. Oho, says I, and I planted the caravel in position to keep an eye on things. Sure enough, a while later an invasion fleet set out - two frigates and two fully-loaded galleons; I set the caravel trailing them until I knew where they were headed. I crammed all the coastlands near their goal with military to make sure they couldn't make an unopposed landing, and when they crossed the border and Monty declared war, I swarmed them with my ironclads. Only a few units from that fleet made it to land (and none from the second wave, right behind them), and before they could even move I wiped them out as well. By the time he recovered from that disaster, I was starting to produce destroyers. He tried another invasion, which I destroyed mid-ocean, and his destroyers - when he got around to making them - didn't survive for long either.
Walking the dogs this morning, I encountered the elderly fellow who lives kitty-corner from me. He's rather frail, but he loves my pups. He was giving an airing to one of his daughter's dogs, a large but diffident fellow named Dusty. Buster and Gracie eagerly bounded over to say hello.... Let's just say we're lucky nobody - especially Gracie and my neighbor - got hurt. We cut the usual conversation short after that.
The MassMutual account has kicked in; the appropriate deduction was made from today's paycheck. Looks good, so far.
Heigh-ho. Time to start battening down for the coming cold weather.
