Tuesday 1 July 2003

Pic of the day: Did you know that you can combine the Gymnastics tiles from Fingermouse's Cheap Frills with a common reclining chair or a sofa, and replenish your comfort while racking up physical exercize skill? If I had more time to play The Sims I might make more revolutionary discoveries like this one! (Be careful about trying this at home, kids. A sofa is probably better for starters.)

More excuses

Some thief seems to have stolen part of the days, because there is so much less time to do the same things. I haven't had time to play The Sims in weeks, since around last time I wrote about the expansion pack "Superstar". I cannot even find time to play both DAoC and Morrowind in the same evening.

I have uploaded the July files for the four previous years to my new archives at dreamwater.org. Why I couldn't continue to use dreamwater.net is beyond my understanding, since they are both the same dreamwater and follow the same rules. I am just glad there is still a free webhost with minimal advertising. But so far I think I have needed to upload my archives again each year at least. I never got to transfer my whole archives to dreamwater.net before I had to move on. Still, July is up for all 4 years, and June and May were already. I have no idea whether people actually read them; I certainly get no mail from readers asking for the 75% that are still not up. But I still spend some time on this each new month.

I have two magic fantasy stories in my head clamoring to be written: The new angel soul story, and the old "lost in magic" story. There is a limited buffer in my head: When it is full, the muses in my head stop telling and just sulk until I have written it down. Hmm, I guess that's 3 sulking muses: The Shadow of Cneko muse came back some weeks ago too with a new chapter: "Fur Wars - the hidden menagerie". (Yes, that would be a TCM fanfic, of sorts.)

On the City of Heroes board, I try to read at least the gameplay section. But there is just too much in that one section. Not to mention the general superhero background boards, which would be a full time job to keep up with. I am supposed to have time on my hands, being single and all, but I just can't keep up.

At least I am not bored. From I claw myself up the steep slippery wall from sleep to waking day, guided by the clock radio blaring gibberish about politics and other disasters ... till I stumble toward my bedroom late at night, already half unconscious. There is always, always something to do. Sometimes so much that I don't get anything done, just run away from it all.

But now if you will excuse me, I have a book to read, fiction to write and a game to play. I guess sometime in between there I am going to fall asleep too, but if so I hope to wake again and see you tomorrow.