Saturday thoughts
So, here I am again. Been a while since I last had anything to say here. I've been surviving. They actually went ahead and closed the office building downtown where I used to work because they got a confirmed COVID-19 case in it. So, it's shuttered until further notice, and everyone is now working from home, just like me.
A couple of days this week, I had trouble sleeping, because a miniature dwarf decided to take up residence inside my radiator and bang on it with his hammer in all hours of the night. But the problem turned out to be in the home of my next door neighbor, and after he had repairmen out to fix the steam trap, the dwarf was sent to the unemployment line, and now I can sleep in peace.
Been playing a lot of the Windows computer game BattleTech lately, playing through the campaign again now that I understand the system better. It's a lot of fun, and rather addictive. If you make friends with the pirates, you get some great deals in the Black Market. It's funny just how often Star League era mechs show up at insanely cheap prices.
But lately, I went ahead and purchased the Halo Remastered Master Chief Collection for Windows, which is 20% off on Steam right now. Have been playing through the original Halo, and it's really rather remarkable. They made it so you can switch between the original and new graphics with a single keystroke, and the new graphics for the remastering really are a big improvement. But the game still plays exactly the same way, and has the same great story and music. It's fun returning to it. And though the sequels aren't out yet, at long last they will be released to Windows as the ports are finished, and I'll finally get to know how the story comes out (since I don't have a console so couldn't get the console-only sequels). I'd forgotten how much fun it was. It really was a hugely game-changing game when it originally came out.
Other life developments…you know, you don't realize just how much you take being able to go out for breakfast for granted, until one day you can't do it anymore. I was able to make a leftover-pizza omelet today, which was definitely good, but I wouldn't want to go to that amount of effort every day.
I've come to realize that one true measure of maturity is being able to bite my tongue and resist replying when someone close to me says something political I disagree with. It's hard-I keep coming up with all sorts of witty retorts with which I could clap back, but I'd never change their mind (or they, mine) and it would just make it harder for us to relate to one another, so what's the point? If someone is trying to goad me into an argument, why should I let them? I guess this is also why I so seldom unfollow Facebook friends who don't agree with me, even when they leave obnoxious comments on the political posts I share. "Live and let live" might be trite, but that doesn't necessarily make it easy to do.
Well, let's see what life has in store for me now…
A couple of days this week, I had trouble sleeping, because a miniature dwarf decided to take up residence inside my radiator and bang on it with his hammer in all hours of the night. But the problem turned out to be in the home of my next door neighbor, and after he had repairmen out to fix the steam trap, the dwarf was sent to the unemployment line, and now I can sleep in peace.
Been playing a lot of the Windows computer game BattleTech lately, playing through the campaign again now that I understand the system better. It's a lot of fun, and rather addictive. If you make friends with the pirates, you get some great deals in the Black Market. It's funny just how often Star League era mechs show up at insanely cheap prices.
But lately, I went ahead and purchased the Halo Remastered Master Chief Collection for Windows, which is 20% off on Steam right now. Have been playing through the original Halo, and it's really rather remarkable. They made it so you can switch between the original and new graphics with a single keystroke, and the new graphics for the remastering really are a big improvement. But the game still plays exactly the same way, and has the same great story and music. It's fun returning to it. And though the sequels aren't out yet, at long last they will be released to Windows as the ports are finished, and I'll finally get to know how the story comes out (since I don't have a console so couldn't get the console-only sequels). I'd forgotten how much fun it was. It really was a hugely game-changing game when it originally came out.
Other life developments…you know, you don't realize just how much you take being able to go out for breakfast for granted, until one day you can't do it anymore. I was able to make a leftover-pizza omelet today, which was definitely good, but I wouldn't want to go to that amount of effort every day.
I've come to realize that one true measure of maturity is being able to bite my tongue and resist replying when someone close to me says something political I disagree with. It's hard-I keep coming up with all sorts of witty retorts with which I could clap back, but I'd never change their mind (or they, mine) and it would just make it harder for us to relate to one another, so what's the point? If someone is trying to goad me into an argument, why should I let them? I guess this is also why I so seldom unfollow Facebook friends who don't agree with me, even when they leave obnoxious comments on the political posts I share. "Live and let live" might be trite, but that doesn't necessarily make it easy to do.
Well, let's see what life has in store for me now…