Saturday, March 10, 2012

Coming up: spring

Had a really nice late breakfast with Ana last Thursday, reminded me of a time when we both had less mundane stuff to deal with, or at least so it seemed. The sun was out, the food took only an hour to arrive (I was the one who placed the order, so obviously the waitress immediately wiped her memory clean), for some reason it felt like summertime.

I'm grudgingly coming around on the subject of summer, I have to admit. And the Mediterranean climate in general. Meeting people out on town is so much more pleasant when the sun is out, and what else am I gonna do with my life but try to keep meeting people out on town as often as possible?

Also bought Crusader Kings 2 and it might become my favorite game of all time (dethroning Europa Universalis 2, also from Paradox Entertainment). The scope and complexity are absolutely mindblowing, so it seems almost infinitely replayable. And the developers are already opening the code up for user-made modifications in the patches, so it can only get better (the AGC-EEP mods for EU2 kept me playing that game for 2 years, I think).

The downside is I already spent 36 hours playing it, and I only got it on Tuesday. I actually need to set myself strict deadlines, like "you're only playing this thing until 3 p.m." - and I haven't yet met any of them. It is so good.

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Core element

And then all of a sudden you really miss someone. It just pops up out of the blue, and there it is.

Thankfully, it's bedtime, and nowadays it rarely sticks around for breakfast.