Friday 14 December 2007

Pic of the day: Each house has its own stories to tell. And I don't even get sued for spreading them around.

I have Simmed...

Regular readers know that I keep playing The Sims 2 several times a week, although I don't necessarily do so all day (or night). There are ebbs and flows to this as to so many other things in my life. Recently started a flow that will keep flowing for at least two months. This is the "prosperity challenge" that I wrote about a while ago. Though it is not the prosperity - in financial terms at least - that interests me.

The meta of this is, I am blogging this project heavily over at my sims journal. It looks fairly moderate if you just glance at it. But the thing is, there is a secondary journal, and each entry in the main sims journal links to a rather huge entry in the other journal. So there is a lot of story and pictures there, of a neighborhood starting from scratch, and the people who live there, and how they gradually build the place to a viable community. It is slow going - most of the original settlers are still alive two months later, although some are gone.

I have considered copying these entries - the detailed ones - to my Chaos Node. That way I would certainly come a long way toward catching up. The thing is, I am still writing a lot, I am just not doing it here. My life has kind of fragmented into different journals with different audiences. Even with the color coding, it is not easy to present all sides of me. I try to make this the most representative sample of who I am, for future historians (who will likely be very bored since they have computers to do most of the menial tasks for them). I doubt there is anyone alive right now that has the same interests as I. Of course, this is not unique to me. A lot of us in this age are fragmenting like this. Though at least most of my journals are under my own name, in some form.

So... copy and paste to catch up and include this part of my life? It would paint my calender a lot more blue, but is it really any worse than having "fast forward" every other day? It certainly can't be worse than being two months behind. People can't even know whether I am alive, and it is hard to comment on current politics. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing, current politics being what they are.

You should definitely notice whatever I decide to do, one way or another. If I'm still here, which I sincerely hope. At least I am here right now.