Saturday 12 December 1998

Screenshot

Pic of the day: Screenshot from Industry Giant.
Been playing this game a bit. It has great appeal still, but there are a few really irritating things. One, as can perhaps be seen from the screen shot, transport takes up a large area of the game map. Unrealistically so. Two, and somewhat related, the trains are not always intelligent enough to handle heavy traffic. They can at times go into deadlock, and there is no provision for solving this (for instance by backing up the train) so I may have to scrap a perfectly good train just to solve a gridlock. That really puts a player off. To avoid this, I tend to put up separate lines. But these take up a lot of area and eat on the surplus.
In other news, I washed clothes today, and also went shopping for food (which required me to put on decent clothes instead of fuzzing around in pajamas most of the day). On the bright side, I now have enough chocolate in the house to seriously poison myself, if I were to eat it all at once. Not that I'm going to.
For dinner I cooked various spaghettis, added a bit of readymade herbs and spices, put it in the frying pan with olive oil until enough of the water was evaporated so the oil was absorbed instead, added paprika (not sure what that's called in English, but several fruits should go here) and fried it with riven cheese. Warning: Children may choke on the cheese. But I like it. For the corresponding rice meal, I recommend egg too, but spaghetti goes fine without. For those who like sausage, small pieces of wiener or brat should taste good here. But the cheese is essential, especially when I don't have egg. Any pizza cheese should do the trick.
Had a visit by a christian friend this evening. Was quite interesting. For some reason, I remember an episode my mother told me from her youth. One girl was running around screaming: "Jesus is coming! Jesus is coming!" To which another calmly replied: "He is welcome." Now, it turned out that Jesus didn't literally show up that time either. And until He does, I guess we still have to try to help each other out down here, don't you think?


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Friday 11. December
Thursday 10. December
Wednesday 9. December
Tuesday 8. December
Monday 7. December
Sunday 6. December
Saturday 5. December
Friday 4. December
Thursday 3. December
Wednesday 2. December
Tuesday 1. December

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