The Caffeinated Penguin

Posted By matt on January 1, 2007

Liz and I spent the last two days cleaning the house from top to bottom, and aside from the pile of stuff which needs to go into the attic, it's nearly done (need to finish my office). It's vastly improved, and doesn't make me groan when I walk through it. We also tackled the bathroom closet – 4 grocery bags of old products later, we now have room for linens in the closet. Who knew?

So, I'm not one to make New Year's resolutions, but I think this year, I just might:
(1) Relax.
(2) Buy a house this year.
(3) Set up a shooting course in the basement and/or backyard and practice using airsoft guns (quiet, cheap, doesn't bother the neighbors).
(4) Play more video games*
(5) Finish my microarmor rules (first revision done, the code for handling the units is almost done).

• = This might seem strange, but it kind of goes with #1. To this end, I have:

(A) Re-established the “Wintendo”, a PIII-550 running an actual licensed copy of Win 98SE suitable for playing such favorites as Baldur's Gate II, Starcraft, Diablo, Diablo II, Half-Life, etc.
(B) Cleared out my laptop's install of WinXP of various bits of cruft which have accumulated.
(C) Established the following rules:
(I) If a game has a native port for Linux, I will run that as opposed to the Windows version (eventually, once I have bought a house, moved, and gotten another job, I will probably build myself a new Linux desktop machine.).
(II) If it does not have a native port, I will attempt to run it on the Wintendo.
(III) Failing that, it does on the laptop.
(IV) I will not use Wine (too unreliable)

Of course, I'll be playing console games as well. Liz and I have decided we like the Marvel: Ultimate Alliance game. It's a lot like Gauntlet: Dark Legacy, except Lizzy gets to be Spider Man, and I get to be Wolverine! Sweet!

Anyway, back to cleaning my office.

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