h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm starting to feel more of a sort of ... pressure, I guess you could say, about the impending move, every time I come to the H2G2 lately.

Finally got a packet from the Social Security people; *I* might be able to say I'm "officially disabled" soon ...

evening!!!

last weekend

let the fun begin

There's a superb tech team working on the code right now. I think we'll be OK. I know we will be, on the other side of the transfer.

*the sound of distant hammering can be heard as movers crate stuff up in the exhibition area*

I really must try to catch up on all that happened last week.

Morning all.

I just got to use the word Atelier in a scrabble-type game!

mostly low numbers, those tiles. I should have called it the Zatelier.

It was actually 2 words, La and Atelier so I actually got 70 points for it. Triple letter score on an A (5 points for La), Triple word score for Atelier (30 points), and 35 bonus for using all of my letters.

Honking from up high
Plow formation flying south
Foreknowledge of frost

At least I think it means cold weather is coming very soon (the geese always seem to wait until the very last minute before migrating) but the weather forecast promises sun and almost summery temperatures this week

Morning all.

As long as it is dry and not too windy on Saturday, I'm off on a bike ride.

<BB<

Blah. Tried to get a grip on my sleep problems by going to bed an hour earlier than usual ... so, of course, my body decides that the apropos thing to do is to wake up *three* hours earlier than usual.

*wanders through carrying a big basket of 1s and 0s*

For Ti:
Most memorable gaming moment for TJ IRL was on a Commodore 64/128, playing a text-based game called "Alter Ego." The premise was based on psychological research and testing as the underpinning to the game dynamics. You answer a series of personality-based questions at the outset (truthfully, if you comply with instructions), then the game begins with your birth. You progress through multiple stages of "growing up" and making decisions on the "perceived environment" presented, with each choice effecting the next branch of your growth and decision base. You could do a "check-up from the neck up" if you wanted to see your attributes for a particular stage of development, kind of like a self-examination.

Anyway, I'd "grown up, gotten a job, and gotten married" along the way to a wonderful woman named Toni. We had a wonderful life together, aside from a faux pas where I conversed with a "former girlfriend" at a party, causing some jealousy. In our "later years" together, Toni's health started to decline. At one point, the game informed me: "You hear a crash in the bathroom. When you go to examine, you find Toni collapsed on the floor. What do you do?" I picked her up gently and carried her to the bed, then called the hospital. It wasn't long afterwards that she passed away, though she held my hand and smiled as we parted company. What a sobering piece of 'gameplay' that was!

Not too long after her passing, my character "gave up the ghost" as well, only to be "reborn" into a whole new life, reincarnated, as it were, to start a new session. The initial questions were repeated and you had the chance to modify your responses for a different gameplay experience. What a novel concept.

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Didn't know this was available, but [http://www.playalterego.com/]

B4youliveyourownalternatelife

Winter geese have started to arrive here, Ti.

*there is a muffled crash in the library as one of the packing bots tries to pick up an armload of slippery periodicals*

I happen to have a bride of many years who works in an office-supplies shop. I would the pleased to aquire 'loans' of trundle boxes, a proper heavy weight 'dolly', and a back and such to help with the move ...

Night all.

Today (28 September) is Earth Overshoot Day when we've consumed resources that should have lasted us until the end of the year:

http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/newsletter/bv/september_27_2011