Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

[kungfuwaynewho]

For some reason I got it into my head that I couldn't post until I had finished my edit of Part One, because to do otherwise would somehow admit defeat?  I didn't think of this literally or articulate it to myself, but every time I thought of a post, I would think, "no, I'll be done with the edit soon, I'll post then."

I am actually done with the edit now!  I ended up feeling that I needed an epilogue of sorts, instead wrote a full chapter, and had to go over that enough that I felt it was as polished as the rest of Part One.  But it is, in fact, done now.

(Of course, not posting has nothing to do with why I haven't been reading my flist.  I get the weirdest social media-related anxiety and issues sometimes, I don't even know.)

One of the major things that stalled my progress was the absolute glut of video games I either received or purchased for myself around Christmas.  I hadn't really been playing games much the last few years, and I'd forgotten what it was like to come home from work (or, in earlier years, school) and just sit down and play Civ for like five hours straight.  (What is it like?  It's great, except you start feeling like you haven't showered in a week, even if you did, in fact, just shower.)  I think I've gotten it out of my system, but for about three weeks there, I wasn't doing a whole lot else.  It was kind of sad.

Randomly this last week I have found myself actively missing fandom, specifically B5 fandom circa-2010, and landcomms, specifically scifiland, a whole lot.  I've been saying for over a year now that I was going to make a new fun B5 comm that was going to be like half-meta, half-landcomm, and I've never gotten around to it, so it's hard to whine about there not being anything going on when I'm not even attempting to be active myself.  But 2010-2011 was like a great period of time fandom-wise and I really miss it.  :(

And here is my favorite gif from the last month:

Comments

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Haha! Honestly, I usually don't get far enough in the game to get to nuclear weapons - I usually either conquer everyone before then, or I manage to get to space flight before the others get nukes. Of course, I don't play on really high difficulty levels either, so I'm mostly a cheater.

[la-loony.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure on what level they play when they play together. I only know whichever edition of civ they play it's way too complicated for me, I prefer the older version I used to play on the really old PC with Windows 98 at homeXD

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you used to play Civ 2 or Civ 3, but I bought Civ 3 on Steam updated to run on new computers around Christmas - it was on sale then for $1.50, but I'm sure it's not much more than that even now! Just a thought...

[la-loony.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'll look into that one day. I have a bunch of puzzles to do firstXD

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

I have puzzles, too! Unfortunately I don't have a table big enough for the puzzle I got for Christmas, so I'm sort of stuck for the time being. What puzzles are you working on?

[la-loony.livejournal.com]

Do you have a room where you can put it on the floor? Maybe with a puzzle carpet (then you can roll the whole thing up when you need the space)? How big is your puzzle and what motive did you get?
I have a few 1000 piece ones I am considering to tackle next. I usually try to do a 1000 in a day (because...idk because I can I guessXD). Right now I think I'll do Le Chat Noir next. I mean I really want to try the 6000 piece puzzle I got for christmas, but I definitly don't have the time right now since I should be learning for an exam and I'll have to finish a paper till MarchXD

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

The puzzle I got for Christmas is 3000 pieces, and I would totally just lay it out on a big piece of cardboard and do it on my bedroom floor, except I have two cats, and I know they would destroy it. I'm trying to come up with some kind of cover I could put over a puzzle board and then just stow the whole thing under my bed. I know they have puzzle felts with tubes to roll up, but they're kind of expensive for what they are. I'll eventually figure something out.

I have Le Chat Noir poster in my room! That would be a great puzzle, and excellent for framing when you're done.

[la-loony.livejournal.com]

Nice! What does it show?
Sucks that they are so expensive. I got my bigger one that fits 3000 piece puzzles years ago, don't wanna know what I'd pay now.

I have no room on my wall to hang anything, but it definitly would look good (finished it last night^^) framed. Maybe another time, I'll tear it apart again and keep it in the box and probably just do it again sometime.

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

It's this puzzle here: World Map (http://www.amazon.com/Ravensburger-World-Map-1665-Puzzle/dp/B0000A12HJ/ref=sr_1_1?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1391443345&sr=1-1&keywords=ravensburger+puzzle). I'm pretty stoked about it.

Yeah, it's not so much that the puzzle mats are too expensive, but that they're too expensive for just being a piece of felt and an inflatable tube. Considering what the materials are, it shouldn't be more than five or six bucks, but they want like almost 30 dollars. Just no.

[la-loony.livejournal.com]

This is amazing! Beaming should be real, I'd come over to puzzle with you^^

True, I don't think I would've gotten my big one (the smaller one was a present^^) if it hadn't been on sale.