Birthdays
November 14th, 2002 by HenSo yesterday was my birthday. Fun, wife brought me cake at work, I didn’t even know she could make cake. Local JUG had our monthly ’social-meeting’. These are turning more and more into a alcoholic griping session. Work, taglibs, java, laws.
Best things I got for my birthday, Pink Floyd’s The Wall on CD, a Wycombe Wanders t-shirt [my family-team, though I didn’t grow up there], and the Mac version of Civ 3. So I got to sleep last night at 5am, and can heartily confirm that Civ 3 is great. The old Civ concepts, but refined. Lovely touches. And of course, never read the instruction manual, that way the touches are so much more of a surprise.
Like clearing forests actually results in resource. And there’s the concept of nationalities and cultures which makes it a little like playing Europa Universalis 2, my current favourite game. On EU2 I’ve been playing as the Timurid/Mughal Empire, and then as Saxony. Very interesting.
November 14th, 2002 at 1:14 am
Didn’t realize yesterday was your birthday! I just thought the cake was a nice little suprise. Well happy birthday. Btw, if you like The Wall, have a listen to the live version that’s out on our servers. It’s pretty great. I think in one of the songs, there was a fire that started on stage so Roger had to stop playing and put the fire out.. you can hear him mumble something about it… Can’t remember where though…
November 14th, 2002 at 7:42 am
Happy Birthday!