FOUND IT!

Hah! Today is kind of like Christmas Day for me. Why?

Well, some time back, the game CD of my all-time favourite computer game broke ... inside the CD-ROM drive. I turned the computer on, heard a CRUNCH and then a WHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrr... and thought the worst.

It turns out that the game CD that I'd been using to play the game (which, unfortunately had also been run over by my office chair (Yes, I know you're not supposed to put a damaged disc in the drive. But I love the game)) had broken.

BUT ... the author of the game had recently released the "Gold Version" of the game, which I had purchased.

While it's true I'll have to reinstall off the new CD, I won't lose my saved games. I also found (more on this in a moment) two of my favourite music CDs, and my DVD of Dune (the miniseries, not the movie.) Talk about wonderful news!!

"Found?" Yes, found.

As you're no doubt aware by now if you've been reading for any length of time, I moved not too terribly long ago following a messy and not-too-friendly divorce.

I won't get into details, since even now it's still painful. Suffice it to say that most of what I own is still in boxes. I was going through one of the boxes to find something else and ran into these things ... and I had thought they were in another different box.

So, tonight I'm going to reinstall the game and go back to "blowing shit up." I might also get back onto the game's network (oh, who am I fooling? You know I will) and try to blow them up too.

Note to any 3-letter government agency reading this: This is a computer game where you are trying to destroy your competition. Sometimes you do that by forcing them to resign or by blowing them up. Perhaps if you were as interested in not whitewashing the jihadi ties of Maj. Hasan ...