i'll go vote, then i'll make an offering to mercury or neptune.
3.8 miles.
DARIN
I'm sure you're registered at
your old apartment in Studio City.
DIANE
Right, but where's that polling
place?
Darin takes the Election Information Ballot over to the
nearest computer with web access. A few seconds later:
DARIN
The Beverly Garland Holiday Inn.
DIANE
I love the web.
I went there and my name was in the book--I couldn't remember my address in Studio City, but they had the listing by name, so they found me--and I voted. I got my "I voted" sticker, I felt that special member-of-the-electorate glow, it was Miller Time. Okay, not really; I drove home and read e-mail.
It was completely strange, though, that I had completely forgotten my address on Arch Drive. At least I could remember the Arch Drive part.
Clan Lord has stopped ruining my life because the Clan Lord server hit an hcf exception (halt and catch fire) on Friday and Delta Tao hasn't been able to get the server back up all weekend. So my mind should be clear and unfettered, right?
I've discovered a new game, and now it's ruining my life. On the one hand, I can only play it (for now) over at the Boys's house, because it's a Windows-only game and Darin doesn't think the old, pokey Windows box in his office is good enough for the game. On the other hand...I'm going to be at the Boys's house a lot, and not being sociable either.
The game is called Caesar III, which is like SimCity meets Civilization. Make a town, make food, make markets, fight the barbarian invaders, appease the gods. It's totally fun and totally addictive. How do you maximize the city in the map you've got?
Darin went over to the Boys's today to have lunch with Brent and Mike. I tagged along...and spent 3 hours playing Caesar III. I finally slunk out of there when it was time to go vote. (There was something else I had to take care of, which I wasn't going to find relief for in an all-male household.)
This morning, after showering:
DIANE stares at herself unhappily in the magnifying mirror.
She has a very uncharacteristic bloom of acne.
DARIN
It'll clear up.
DIANE
I have to be beautiful all
the time to attract men.
DARIN
You are beautiful all the
time and you do attract men.
DIANE
It's always the same man!
DARIN
I didn't say the system was
perfect.
Today's fun factoid: the Night Stalker has the same wedding anniversary as Darin and me. He got married in 1996 in San Quentin.
Sigh. I can tell I'd better do something about this situation quickly:
"It probably won't run on your Powerbook under Virtual PC."
"I bet it could run on your Mac under Virtual PC. Of course, that means you couldn't be using your Mac. You'd have to go spend a lot more time over at the Boys's."
"Great. Kicked out of my own house so that my wife can play a game."
Clan Lord is back! And it's really annoying, because everyone got reset, so everyone is scrounging for points. And in order to do so, they're doing the worst possible thing: stealing kills. It sucks and it's very unpleasant.
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