Breakin' Good

What this university laughably calls "Spring Break" is next week. Since I have no Friday classes, I'm effectively on break already. (I don't have Thursday classes either, but I had to do some paperwork and meet with my Master's student yesterday.)

I figure on spending the week puttering around the house, mostly. I do intend a little shopping: the Chef's Shoppe for a new onion chopper (I've been avoiding recipes with onion since the old one broke, and that takes a deep cut out of my repertoire) and a new coffee filter cone (the old one's still more or less satisfactory, but it's chipped and ugly, and some undesirable things have been happening as well), and Target for a new laundry basket (the old one's crumbled and chewed to hellangone) and perhaps a few other household items.

Otherwise, I expect to spend my time playing Civ 6, working on my Finances database, and maybe writing the introduction and conclusion to Taxonomy II (and reading the galley proofs for Taxonomy I so I can give the journal the go-ahead to publish it). Perhaps I'll also do some "spring" cleaning. There are a few university duties I also have to attend to, but I can do them from home as well.

:stretches and yawns:

Unexpected Victory

I was just playing Civ 6; playing as Harald Hardrada, I was driving towards a Domination victory. I had already conquered the Scythians, the Zulu, and Macedon, and Sumeria was down to its last city. I had already begun moving my mighty navy towards the Khmer cities; they, and Wilhelmina's Dutch were all that remained.

Gilgamesh's city of Kish had had its walls blasted to rubble by a naval bombardment, and as soon as my land forces got there, they waltzed right in... at which point the game ended, in a Religious victory. I had already converted most of the cities in each of my remaining rivals.

Dammit, I was looking forward to grinding the entire world under my heel!