Hello again
Jun. 11th, 2002 02:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterI realize I haven't updated in a few days. That would be because The Sims has been eating my brain.
I went ahead and got Vacation, and I'll be getting Hot Date in a few days. I've spent the last couple playing The Sims again and remembering once more just why it's so hauntingly addictive...and yet, ultimately, sort of empty. It has what a friend of mine called "JOMT Syndrome"--for "Just One More Turn"--you start playing it, and then you look up and it's three days later. You neglect bladder, food, your life...you start thinking in Sim-gibberish, or imagining little meters going up when you turn on a light or use the toilet. It's crazy, man!
In other news of the annoying, my Clie has, over the last week, been progressively developing the same sort of problem I sent it in to be repaired for in the first place--lack of screen response. In addition, the battery screw that I had noticed was loose finally fell out altogether. I ended up having to call and get them to send me a new transportation box, to send it back in for service again. Sigh. Means I won't be able to use it in church next week when I go down to visit the folks for Father's Day.
I can tell you one thing...if this problem repeats itself a third time, I'm not waiting. I'm going to go down to Circuit City and swap it for another model of PDA--one from a manufacturer who will give me better support if something goes wrong, high-resolution screen be damned.
And, just to make an already-annoying evening complete, I am suffering from what can politely be called gastrointestinal disfortitude. Bleah.
Well, off to bed, to sleep perchance to something-or-other.
I went ahead and got Vacation, and I'll be getting Hot Date in a few days. I've spent the last couple playing The Sims again and remembering once more just why it's so hauntingly addictive...and yet, ultimately, sort of empty. It has what a friend of mine called "JOMT Syndrome"--for "Just One More Turn"--you start playing it, and then you look up and it's three days later. You neglect bladder, food, your life...you start thinking in Sim-gibberish, or imagining little meters going up when you turn on a light or use the toilet. It's crazy, man!
In other news of the annoying, my Clie has, over the last week, been progressively developing the same sort of problem I sent it in to be repaired for in the first place--lack of screen response. In addition, the battery screw that I had noticed was loose finally fell out altogether. I ended up having to call and get them to send me a new transportation box, to send it back in for service again. Sigh. Means I won't be able to use it in church next week when I go down to visit the folks for Father's Day.
I can tell you one thing...if this problem repeats itself a third time, I'm not waiting. I'm going to go down to Circuit City and swap it for another model of PDA--one from a manufacturer who will give me better support if something goes wrong, high-resolution screen be damned.
And, just to make an already-annoying evening complete, I am suffering from what can politely be called gastrointestinal disfortitude. Bleah.
Well, off to bed, to sleep perchance to something-or-other.
