I'm Still Standing, Yeah Yeah Yeah

At first I held off posting because I was waiting to see how the stuff brought up in the previous post would resolve themselves. That ate up a couple weeks, since then it's been mainly a lack of anything worth mentioning. Summer's been oozing by like an Elder God on the beach(see today's User Friendly), and mostly what I have to say for it is thank Urd for icewater. I now have my very own straw hat, and it even fits. The market's going kinda sluggishly, through a combination of heat and a lot more competition in the cookie market this year. I've had to go up and down Main Street selling shop to shop to make more than a miniscule profit, so these next couple of months I think I'd better do some serious thinking as to my future plans.

The job is still going fine, if my boss has any problems with my work she seems to be choosing to express her frustration with extra money. I'm only putting in three days a week at the moment, so I might be picking up another part-time job by the end of the month. We'll see. Made a mistake Monday and bought a seven-pack of various Tycoon games, since then my plans for starting a new story have been buried under the iron rails of Railroad Tycoon II. I'm not great at this game, but it's interesting trying to figure it out. The AIs whup me even on easy mode, since I'm not well-practiced at scheduling multiple cargo routes using the same regions of track. Still, it's got major points for geek value, PopTop is becoming one of my all-time favorite game companies thanks to this in addition to Tropico and its sequel. When it comes to fun and gutsy software toys, these guys are second only to Maxis in my book. Anyhoo!

Essentially, I'm just living life and trying to keep under the radar of those aspects of life I don't care for. As always, my brain picks idly at the thought of taking another college course or two, but I'm not sure it'd be the best idea right now. Still, I gotta get some writing done. Guess I'd better go make the attempt. Must...resist...Railroad Tycoon...