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occultatio) wrote2004-07-18 02:11 am
occultatio) wrote2004-07-18 02:11 am
I have been up to stuff!
-> I have a job now. It is a desk job, and hence takes up my time from 9 to 5, 5 days a week. The work is interesting--I'm compiling a database of basically every comic book store in the country, and then surveying them all over the phone. Some owners are really cool people and some are really cynical, some are incredibly polite and friendly and some are in New York. The people in the office are cool, and I really like my boss, who's going out of his way to make this job a really valuable experience for me, letting me sit in on conference calls and accompany him to customer calls and the like. I'm shoved around to a new desk every day, of course, depending on who's absent, but I'm still enjoying the hell out of it. Except for the waking up at 7 AM part.
-> I'm doing stuff with my free time. Progress writing the Monkey Island RPG proceeds apace, and progress reading my way through everything Lois McMaster Bujold has ever written is nearly complete (I found Paladin of Souls in another branch of the library). I am told by yet another person that I absolutely must read Kushiel's Dart, too, a task made easier by happily finding it sitting on top of the paperback carrels at the library, despite a months-long waiting list. This, however, must take a back seat to the primary use of my free time, namely:
-> Babylon 5. SO GOOD. Kaitlin has already received a gushing late-night email following one episode, and I regularly find myself shaking in quiet joy as the credits roll. I am exactly halfway through season 3 now--I think I watched about 7 episodes today, and I should be getting the next batch off of BitTorrent before I post this entry. Wow wow wow. Any/all of the other people who haven't seen this yet... you absolutely must. I've started my friends here on it, lending one of them the first season to check out, and making them watch the first episode as inducement. I'll report any progress, but this effort may be hampered by these funny things they have called "social lives." Go figure.
-> I have also made ice cream. Flavors this summer include Mocha Caramel Swirl, Mint Oreo, Strawberry Mandarin Orange, and Butter Pecan. Tomorrow, Lizzie and I attempt: Chocolate Mint. More on this later.
-> Finally, I have decided to play an email game of Diplomacy. I have never, ever played or even watched this game before. I am England. I will get my ass kicked. I mean, the freaking rulebook is 24 pages long, as a .pdf file! Any help or advice, most welcomed.
-> I'm doing stuff with my free time. Progress writing the Monkey Island RPG proceeds apace, and progress reading my way through everything Lois McMaster Bujold has ever written is nearly complete (I found Paladin of Souls in another branch of the library). I am told by yet another person that I absolutely must read Kushiel's Dart, too, a task made easier by happily finding it sitting on top of the paperback carrels at the library, despite a months-long waiting list. This, however, must take a back seat to the primary use of my free time, namely:
-> Babylon 5. SO GOOD. Kaitlin has already received a gushing late-night email following one episode, and I regularly find myself shaking in quiet joy as the credits roll. I am exactly halfway through season 3 now--I think I watched about 7 episodes today, and I should be getting the next batch off of BitTorrent before I post this entry. Wow wow wow. Any/all of the other people who haven't seen this yet... you absolutely must. I've started my friends here on it, lending one of them the first season to check out, and making them watch the first episode as inducement. I'll report any progress, but this effort may be hampered by these funny things they have called "social lives." Go figure.
-> I have also made ice cream. Flavors this summer include Mocha Caramel Swirl, Mint Oreo, Strawberry Mandarin Orange, and Butter Pecan. Tomorrow, Lizzie and I attempt: Chocolate Mint. More on this later.
-> Finally, I have decided to play an email game of Diplomacy. I have never, ever played or even watched this game before. I am England. I will get my ass kicked. I mean, the freaking rulebook is 24 pages long, as a .pdf file! Any help or advice, most welcomed.
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1)Throw that rulebook away. You won't need it.
2)Attack your neighbors furiously. Especially Russia.
3)Give all your centers to Turkey.
Yep, that ought to do it. :)
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2) the rulebook will tell you how to properly format orders, after that you are on your own. If you tell me in words what you want to do, I can tell you how to order it.
3) make an alliance, they help.
4) The turks are filthy liars, you know they are allied with russia, and that you need to stop it. This is the case in EVERY game
5) england is pretty defensible, not a bad country for your first game (meanwhile I started out with my first two games being germany and austria)
Have fun!