Granddad Hi

Audio post version. Listen to me read the post below while you do your own thing. It’s a beautiful day. The windows and blinds are open, fresh prairie air is drifting in. It’s time to do some cleaning.

The ebb and flow of disorder in my home can reach extremes during busy times and it has been exceptionally busy lately. All good stuff. The business just didn’t involve keeping things tidy.

As for the subject of yesterday’s post, I actually didn’t fit in much gaming. Instead I settled on the motherboard for the system I am building, the Asus Maximus V Formula, and got well into the research for the RAM.

Just after 2am my brain stopped working, so I purchased an expansion for Civilization, called Gods & Kings. I went with the Celts. Gave it a good try on normal difficulty, but got owned around 10 A.D. when the surrounding civilizations declared war on my people in unison. I guess the computer just wanted to play by itself…

I have been a fan of the Civilization series since the first game. I received a pirated copy from my granddad on five 5.25″ floppy disks in the late 80s. That’s basically before the internet and downloading. The disks arrived in the post with a handwritten note. The credits and unit descriptions were just basic text files, so I was able to put my name in the credits as Modder and change the name of spearmen to robots, for example. I can see that experience influence my current website development and modding of systems like CraftBukkit. Thanks Granddad Hi!

Allis done eating. Listened to C418 while composing this post.