Happy July Civilization IV
For the past two days I've been playing Sid Meier's Civilization IV obsessively. It's quite superb actually, with a more complex structure and format, more civilization technologies, great graphics, and requiring even more strategy than previous versions, while retaining enough of the familiar from the earlier Civ's, that one can just jump right in.
So far, I've been Elizabeth I of England, Louis XIV of the French, and Roosevelt of the Americans, and it's been a blast. I've built the Sistine Chapel, the Great Library of Alexandria, discovered everything from the wheel to free speech, and I think I've kicked butt — I moved from the Ancient world, to Classical, to the Middle Ages before 800 BC! It's got a multiplayer version for online play, but I take so long putzing over my towns and choices, that I'd no doubt drive any other players crazy.
The weather here is unbelievably strange. It ranges between 90°F with oppressive humidity (still no air-conditioning), to about 50° with pouring torrents of rain. My basement flooded, and now the smell of mold is pervasively overpowering. I got 'Damp Rid' - granules that suck moisture out of the air into small buckets, but they aren't enough. Someone suggested I go buy kitty litter and pour it over the floor, then shovel it up when it has sucked up all the moisture. I think that's what I'm going to do today, then pour bleach over the concrete parts of the basement, to kill the mold. Bad thing is, that's a fifth of the basement. The rest of the basement is carpeted.... If anyone knows a trick, do let me know. It's deadly here.
All right, off to kitty-litter-mold-land. Then some more CIV - I love world-domination!
~A
Tags: Basement | Games
So far, I've been Elizabeth I of England, Louis XIV of the French, and Roosevelt of the Americans, and it's been a blast. I've built the Sistine Chapel, the Great Library of Alexandria, discovered everything from the wheel to free speech, and I think I've kicked butt — I moved from the Ancient world, to Classical, to the Middle Ages before 800 BC! It's got a multiplayer version for online play, but I take so long putzing over my towns and choices, that I'd no doubt drive any other players crazy.The weather here is unbelievably strange. It ranges between 90°F with oppressive humidity (still no air-conditioning), to about 50° with pouring torrents of rain. My basement flooded, and now the smell of mold is pervasively overpowering. I got 'Damp Rid' - granules that suck moisture out of the air into small buckets, but they aren't enough. Someone suggested I go buy kitty litter and pour it over the floor, then shovel it up when it has sucked up all the moisture. I think that's what I'm going to do today, then pour bleach over the concrete parts of the basement, to kill the mold. Bad thing is, that's a fifth of the basement. The rest of the basement is carpeted.... If anyone knows a trick, do let me know. It's deadly here.
All right, off to kitty-litter-mold-land. Then some more CIV - I love world-domination!
~A
Tags: Basement | Games
posted by Anniina | 2:26 PM
7 Comments:
sad to say, when my parents house flooded, we had to wipe out all the carpet and redo the whole floor. :(
Hankkiutukaa eroon siitä kellarin matosta !!! Jos siellä on hometta, niin eiks se oo ihan pilalla koko matto ? Voisin kuvitella, ettei oo kauhean hyväksi astmalla/allergioille.
Mun tekee NIIIIIIIIN paljon mieli Starbucksin jää-Lattea, että pää repeää kohta !!! Ostin eilen Robertin Kahvista niiden jää-Latten ja se oli niin säälittävä nönnä-kahvi, että tuli vaan paha mieli :( Vieläkin muistelen lämmöllä sitä pään jäätymistä ennen Green Dayn keikkaa viime syyskuussa, jonka se Starbucksin jätti-jää-ämpäri aiheutti *hihhii*
Ja uusin pojan nimi kolmannen polven foto-kauppiaalle on: Salama Valo :) Arvaa vaan, kuinka paljon nauratti perjantaina, kun keksittiin Tuskassa toi :)
Mä lähden töihin haaveilemaan kaikista niistä kahveista, jotka aion juoda lokakuussa. Ja kai mun pitäis vähän alkaa niitä lentojakin kattomaan. Tuutko hakemaan mut New Yorkista ?
Hei kultsi,
Nyt on bensat ja tietullit niin kalliita, etta se olis varmaankin joku $75 keikka kumpaankin suuntaan, joten jos loydat jonkun mika olisi Philadelphiaan olis paras, jopa Newark olis parempi kuin JFK.
Joo, tama basement juttu on ihan NIGHTMARE. Saas naha miten kay.
Muuten, luen just kirjaal, missa tyton nimi on KIUKIU :) Arvaa, keta ajattelen!
btw... back in the day, i luffed the original Civ. and Colonization. That was an awesome game ^^. nowadays, i have CIVIII(cheaper than CIV IV and still quite good). and for a sci-fi bit of strategy, theres the online game, O-Game, over at: www.ogame.org. i'm on server 4, alliance ID 10t (yes, that spells idiot) and it's FREE which makes it one of the few games i can play in my still current state :(
MITÄ ??? Etkö tuu hakemaan mua Vancouveristakaan ??? Ei vaineskaan, mä alan tutkimaan British Airwaysin lentoja, niillä pääsen suoraan PHL. Ne lennot pitää vaan kirjoittaa heti ja mä en oo vielä ihan varma, milloin mun loma oikein on :) Eli laita viestiä, jos teillä lokakuun lopussa/marraskuun alussa on jotain tärkeetä tekemistä, mihin mua ei tarvita :) Ajattelin ite aika loppu-lokakuuta, koska Johannan laskettu aika on 19.10. (ylihän se melko varmasti menee) ja haluaisin kovasti olla HETI moikkaamassa Salamaa; alkaa toi Johannan läpi puhuminen jo vähän kyllästyttämään *hehhee*
ai juu, laita viestiä mahdollisista visiteerauspäivistä mun työ-eemeliin, joka on etunimi.sukunimi (kanelibulla)kilroytravels.fi
Aika hyvin hämätty, vai mitä ?
Hassuli :) Tuut ihan millon vaan voit, koska sun visiittia tarkeampaa tekemista EI OO!
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