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12 August 2005

City Planning 

I'm not too impressed about the city planning here in London, to say the least. We have been annoyed at the enormous amount of litter bins and lampposts that are in the way all the time, rendering one third of any pavement completely useless. But this particular lamppost went further and actually made us laugh. Probably because we don't live in that house.

I think I'm giving up my plan about visiting Oslo this autumn in order to see Death of a Salesman, a play I have wanted to see for about twelve years now. The logistics are way too complicated and the whole trip will be too expensive. I always suspected Norway to be rather unfriendly towards its tourists, and I was right. The hotel prices are too high and I don't want to go by train between my hometown and Oslo twice in a weekend. Well, it's my decision anyway and I was the one wanting to move here, LOL!

Since I got my laptop I have been playing The Sims 2 quite a lot. My current family, started basically from scratch, as the father went all the way from toddler through childhood, acne-ridden teenager and university before landing a job as a UFO Investigator, is obsessed with adopting children. The mother, Barbara, who was Daniel's girlfriend already from their teens, is determined to keep her job as a counterfeiter, though (majoring in Literature obviously leads to a life of crime), and Daniel is so proud of his job he doesn't want to lose it, so they've had to hire a nanny. Unfortunately, taking care of three toddlers and three schoolkids has proved to be too much for her, so she has broken down completely and spends most of her time dancing in front of the family's brand new stereo together with any toddler who happens to be on the same floor as her. At least they're all happy. Who cares about food, right? The house is also rather spectacular, as it is basically a huge, floating metal cube (due to a bug). It looks very cool. I was desperate for a ground floor swimming pool, you see, so I had to use my imagination and engineering skills there for a while. Now that the house is filled with children, however, we've had to build a couple of extensions in order for them to have a room each. I'm really looking forward to all the toddlers growing up so that they can use the stairs themselves, because it's physically demanding even for me. No, wait, it's physically demanding just for me, isn't it, because the rest are just moving graphics made from a bunch of noughts and zeros...

Must get a life. (Strange. I seem to have said that since the release of The Sims (1) in 2000...)

Current track: Aerosmith - Kiss Your Past Goodbye

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Posted by: Ingaroo / 22:35
Comments:
You do realize that one day, your game will implode. When mine hit the 500 character mark, any new baby born into the game wasn't saved. It was gone, totally gone and I had to use game mods and hacks to get them back.

As it is, with all the hacks I've downloaded to keep it running, the game is now held together with spit and bubblegum.

Enjoy your families while you can!
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 13 August, 2005 04:51
 
I guess you could always opt for the "Death of a Salesman" production currently running at the Lyric Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue. No logistics problem there? :)
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 15 August, 2005 07:36
 
I really wish I knew what possessed me to write "noughts and zeros". :)
# posted by Blogger Ingaroo : 31 August, 2005 04:21
 
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