Tied down by the cube’s tether this weekend, but I managed to catch some water polo Friday night and had a great time just hanging with some friends on Saturday. We would have considered going to the Polish Festival here Saturday, but after their snub of the world’s most beloved Polish-American, it just didn’t seem right. Today’s just been pretty much chill, with a stroll around the zoo and some grocery shopping, and a bit of the online shopping too.

Won’t be depressed and bored forever though: a client got me some VIP passes for the Miramar Air Show next weekend, so some friends and I will go and see the jets go fast and stuff, and in fifteen excruciatingly long short days Civilization IV, the sequel to the greatest time-suckers of the last decade or so of my life, will be released.

Yep, I played the original Civ on a Commodore Amiga, Civ II on the Mac, and Civ III on the PC. The kiddies today don’t know how rough we had it back then – the decision to quit and start again is a lot more difficult when it takes thirty minutes to come up with a new world, let me tell you. OK, not as bad as walking to school for eight miles in the blizzard, but even geeks can have rough early adulthoods. Hopefully I’ll live long enough to lead the Big Surians to global domination on Civ XVIII in my home holosuite, for I am truly an addict.

2 Responses to “Sunday and the Future”

1. Mike Alexander says:

   October 10, 2005 at 8:13 am

   Thanks for voting for Judy on Juan’s blog. San Diego is my home away from home (home = Fresno). I was just down this week-end for band rehearsal for a San Marcos halloween gig (play bass in two bands, one in Fresno, one in SD). Do you ever go to Flicks, Shooters, or Numbers? They used to be my hang-outs.
2. Nala says:

   October 10, 2005 at 4:50 pm

   Thank you for supporting me in my moment of snubbing.

   Just you wait.

   We will decimate the San Diego unbelievers!