3 posts tagged “the sims”
So, yeah, I've been hitting The Sims pretty hard the past couple of weeks. As expected. That's okay, I'm enjoying the HELL out of this summer vacation, even if I am still getting up at 7 am to go to work every day.
Some thoughts....
I have finally (accidentally) seen some promo information for The Sims 3, due out in 2009. (Damn you, Will Wright!) I have now downgraded from "No, I won't upgrade my Windows computer again for another game, I'm just going to have to live without it!" to "Yeah, so maybe after I graduate (in 2010) I'll reward myself with a computer upgrade and the first couple of Sims 3 packs will be in a cheap(er) bundle..." Dunno 'bout either George Lucas or Joss Whedon... I think Will Wright is my master now...
Speaking of George the Destroyer... I've also been spending a good bit of time reading the free-to-download e-book, "The Secret History of Star Wars" by Michael Kaminski. Not bad at all. I can't say for sure how much of this is true, and I'm only on chapter three, but we long-time SW geeks who have absorbed every interview and article ever done on SW remember that Lucas has artfully "re-imagined" his history over the years. What he says now is not what he said back then, and I think he was much more honest about it back when it was just a blockbuster movie and not a "brand."
I've also been catching MASH reruns, generally on whilst I'm watching my Sims raise children and go on fabulous vacations. I really, really love MASH, by the way; it was a big component in the formation of my social and political views, plus, it was just really damned funny. But I've realized lately that through eleven years of great TV there were really only two episodes of MASH... Every show was some variation on the one or the other. One involved the presence of some Korean (North or South, wounded or captured, visiting or hiding, didn't matter which) who taught a valuable lesson to some stuck up American about racism, jingoism, war mongerism, and so on. The second was the "Hawkeye goes crazy" episode which taught everyone how horrible war is. That actually worked for eleven seasons. Good job, guys! Oh, and by the way, for me it's Radar and Col. Potter. And I'll probably have to go with Trapper for sidekick...he's got the cooler nickname and he carried over from the movie. Honeycutt's cuter though... If you can find the original book, read it. It's by Richard Hooker, and it's a bit more candid than the somewhat sappy series... the original movie was probably a little closer.
Oh, and the last thing... I'm way overdue to report this, but I got to see Duran Duran again on May 18th at the UCF Arena. It was most verily awesome. They've gotten back into shape and have had a bit of a musical facelift, thanks to Justin Timberlake, as I hear it. Good for him... well, good for them, I guess. The new stuff sounded very good, so I suppose I'm going to have to go locate the damned disk (Red Carpet Massacre). But they judged their aging female/aging queen audience well enough to know to stick to the stuff we remember, and they did rather a lot of the 80's stuff, including "Last Chance on the Stairway" which I don't think I've ever heard live. Good stuff. Here's a photo for old times' sake.... I used to have this poster on my wall...
I suppose it could be better, but I am coming along with my list of things to keep me busy this summer. I've gotten some cleaning done, still have a lot more to go, plus the organizing... must start with the garage soon. I've learned the basics of RoboHelp and HTML/CSS. I've played the hell out of some Sims, baby! I have written down the bones of something fiction-esque. I have at least dragged out of the closet and washed the material for a sewing project. I vaguely helped hubby put up some fence panels - as in, he did the work and I mostly just handed him tools. And, with the help of the godson we got a large part of the lawn and our bountiful abundance of leaves tamed.
This whole Mother's Day/Birthday week kind of slowed things down a bit. We popped down south for part of the day to have lunch with my mum. We found a Wii at Best Buy (!) so that's what we got my mum for Mother's Day. She was as excited as a little girl. Mom's an original gamer from way back - she started with Pong when it first came out, then the first Atari and the first Nintendo, and so on. Mom's cool like that...
Then I had to come home and clean some more because mum-in-law was set to arrive Sunday morning. Not that she cares what the house looks like, but it's days like that that I do.
Well, from Physics, at least. One Japanese final exam to go, but that's not until next week Monday.
I think the physics final went fairly well. It consisted of 45 multiple choice and 5 written problems. I don't believe that I got the 90% required to pull off that "A" but I think I at least did well enough to keep the "B." Good enough, I say...
Now, as for the list of things I want to do for my summer off:
- relearn (again-again) website coding and design
- continue learning Japanese
- clean the house (maybe this one should be number one on the list)
- organize the house (err... number two...)
- sew new costumes for DragonCon (probably not gonna happen...)
- at least sew something!
- waste a ton of time playing The Sims (I am fairly certain that this will happen)
- get out with the telescope at least once a week and spend some time stargazing with or without the telescope
- take more photos of things other than sleeping cats
- write... something... fiction-esque
- finish a book! (Two currently on hold: American Gods and a Dorothy Parker biography.)
Well, at least I'm ambitious. Let's see what actually happens!
