stupid
I feel like an ass for missing the anime club meeting yesterday. I just forgot about it. I'd thought about it yesterday morning, but by the time the work day was over, I guess I just wanted to go home and veg out. It wasn't until later that night when John asked why I wasn't there that I realized I'd missed it. And that was around 10pm or so, a DNS failure at my ISP rendering me unwired.
Oh well. For various reasons, it was an important meeting. But life goes on. Stuff.
I have been so out of it lately. I figure it's the usual winter-related lack of fresh air and sunshine. If I get my current project done at work in time, I think I'm going to go back to Belleville for the weekend in a couple weeks. I'm going back in February sometime regardless. I need to pcik up a belated Christmas present that got held up at customs. (My mother has since vowed never to order anything over the Internet again).
Yes, I picked up Sim City 4 on the weekend. It's pretty wonderful, but it's become clear that I need more RAM. SC4 is really just an incremental improvement over SC3000. There's a more intuitive zoning brush, more useful graphs, a better rewards system, better graphics, etc. Being able to move your Sims in is cute (my Sims were wiped from my harddrive some time ago, but they give you generic Sims to use), but it's not really anything special. They tell you how they're doing, and you can watch them drive to work and back. And they die off, to be replaced by their offspring. SC4 probably isn't a must-have for Sims fans, though. You still can't really do anything with them on an individual level. Except maybe get a giant robot to step on their house. I haven't tried that.