Two things to do...
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johnpalmerYesterday, I had two Really Important things to do.
First, I had to cook the roast of corned beef I had. Second, I had to work out.
It didn't quite work out that way.
With a this and a that and a bit of "I don't want to do this right this moment", the roast didn't get put in the smoker - what, you thought I'd use an *oven* when I could smoke it with the last of my hickory? - until 2. And at 6, I thought it still needed to cook some more.
At 8, I took it out and cut off a piece, and *wow*. And then I looked at the consarned thing and thought "oh." I have three pounds of corned beef here! (Well, according to one person I know, I have three pounds of pastrami, which is even better.) I hope I can handle a lot of Rubens... but what a day to smoke a lot of corned bee. I don't have any swiss in the house! (Or sauerkraut. Or Thousand Island. Or rye bread. In fact, I don't even have a house, I have an apartment. In fact... no, never mind.)
Once I was still cooking meat at 6, I knew going to the gym (which closes at 8 on Saturdays) was a lost cause, but I had to do something... so I turned to my stock of computer games.
I'm a hoarder here... I discovered that I still have 3 5.25" floppies with the original Bard's Tale on it. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, I have it on three different hard drives, why do I need it on floppies?
I spent the night putting all of my game CDs in a binder, discarding old CD cases, and making sure I have copies of all of my activation codes. The lone exception is my new copy of Sacred Gold, which I have in with my game documentation bucket. (See, for a while, I was buying cat litter in huge plastic buckets... these buckets work good for storage.) Pat and I might have toinfect introduce someone to that game. I also copied all of my old 3.5 floppies to hard drive... just in case, you know, I need a copy of MS-DOS 6.22, or Windows 3.1 again.
(I might. Bard's Tale sucks if you have a mouse. You can't type the spell codes in, and if your mages have a lot of spells - and they're supposed to! - it takes forever to scroll to the right one. And on Virtual PC, I can probably load up a DOS box without any problems. And may I mention that it can be a bad idea for a gamer/packrat to go through his collection?)
Anyway... my computer gaming stuff has been greatly compactified. My only worries now are losing my Big Book o' Software.
First, I had to cook the roast of corned beef I had. Second, I had to work out.
It didn't quite work out that way.
With a this and a that and a bit of "I don't want to do this right this moment", the roast didn't get put in the smoker - what, you thought I'd use an *oven* when I could smoke it with the last of my hickory? - until 2. And at 6, I thought it still needed to cook some more.
At 8, I took it out and cut off a piece, and *wow*. And then I looked at the consarned thing and thought "oh." I have three pounds of corned beef here! (Well, according to one person I know, I have three pounds of pastrami, which is even better.) I hope I can handle a lot of Rubens... but what a day to smoke a lot of corned bee. I don't have any swiss in the house! (Or sauerkraut. Or Thousand Island. Or rye bread. In fact, I don't even have a house, I have an apartment. In fact... no, never mind.)
Once I was still cooking meat at 6, I knew going to the gym (which closes at 8 on Saturdays) was a lost cause, but I had to do something... so I turned to my stock of computer games.
I'm a hoarder here... I discovered that I still have 3 5.25" floppies with the original Bard's Tale on it. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, I have it on three different hard drives, why do I need it on floppies?
I spent the night putting all of my game CDs in a binder, discarding old CD cases, and making sure I have copies of all of my activation codes. The lone exception is my new copy of Sacred Gold, which I have in with my game documentation bucket. (See, for a while, I was buying cat litter in huge plastic buckets... these buckets work good for storage.) Pat and I might have to
(I might. Bard's Tale sucks if you have a mouse. You can't type the spell codes in, and if your mages have a lot of spells - and they're supposed to! - it takes forever to scroll to the right one. And on Virtual PC, I can probably load up a DOS box without any problems. And may I mention that it can be a bad idea for a gamer/packrat to go through his collection?)
Anyway... my computer gaming stuff has been greatly compactified. My only worries now are losing my Big Book o' Software.
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Date: 2007-07-29 08:55 pm (UTC)I went to the (very small) farmer's market here yesterday, came home with things I need for gazpacho, plus a small globe zucchini to stuff (wonder where I got ,b>that idea? :) ), and various other goodies, including a pint of fresh raspberries that got rinsed, put in a bowl, covered with milk, and scarfed down. I think today's also my "I can has cheezburger" day...
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Date: 2007-07-29 09:26 pm (UTC)*is hungry now*
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Date: 2007-07-29 09:44 pm (UTC)And I think the game compactification definitely counts as "packing." So that's progress, too.
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Date: 2007-07-30 01:35 am (UTC)Spell Codes
Date: 2007-09-03 05:12 pm (UTC)Re: Spell Codes
Date: 2007-09-03 06:53 pm (UTC)(And now I'm flashing back on the old Apple II Bard's Tale character graphics, and remembering how funny some of them were... vector graphic-like stick figures and such, with the kobold/goblin/etc. animation being a stick figure holding a sword that occasionally raised it up then brought it back down, leading to some awfully crude comments about whether it was really a sword....)