work and play

It's a Monday holiday today, so I've taken a three day weekend. Saturday was devoted to house cleaning and getting lots of stuff done inside the house. Yesterday started out ambitious but that was wiped out with a screaming headache thanks to some nasty paint stripper. I was trying to finish two of the doors we've had downstairs and used the leftover stripper I had from working on the van bumpers years ago. The stripper worked quick, but it took a lot of braincells with it and left me a nasty headache for the rest of the day. I'm mostly right today. One thing I did manage to get done after breathing in the fumes was change the garbage disposal. It was an easy job, so it went well with my mental capacity. Today I've been working on getting shit down. I've managed to cross a few things off the list. I also fixed the bit of the garbage disposal install that I didn't get right yesterday. The dishwasher couldn't pump out because I'd forgotten to punch out the plug that was blocking that inlet. Fixed.

I haven't exactly conquered the world this weekend, but I'm making progress. Despite the games.

I'm totally addicted to Silent Hunter III. I really shouldn't have played it that first time, because now I get the shakes if I stay away from it for too long. It's educational. I mean, I know sub combat was full of long periods of boredom punctuated by extremely high tension, but this sim makes you feel it. People who know similar programs might disagree, but it seems like quite a good sim to me.

I'm not addicted to Rise of Flight, despite the fact it has French countryside and biplanes. I think that has something to do with my unfailing tendency to drill into the ground propeller first. I mean, death is part of the game and all, but if it takes 3 minutes to load a scenario and 3.5 minutes to crater, it just doesn't hook me.