Emerging blinking from the haze

[mme_hardy]

I bought Crusader Kings II Friday afternoon.  It's a game that simulates both the inter-court negotiations and the battles among most of the kingdoms of what is now Europe during the medieval period.   Including Crusades, of course, because you can't have love and rhetoric without blood.

I never did figure out how to work the battle mechanic on a Mac.  So I spent the better part of 48 hours -- including staying up to 2AM, which gave me a migraine -- obsessively marrying off my little dolls to gain money and influence so I could marry my little dolls' children and on and on.

Mercifully, it crashed at 5:30 PM Sunday.   I do not think that I shall click that game again.   I have Mary Beard's Pompeii plus a new sashiko challenge in which I was sent the fabric and some threads and told to "go".  I think the abstract grey, black, and orange color-washed fabric -- pictures later -- looks very much like an autumn tree dropping leaves into a pond of koi, so that's what I'm going with.

No more Crusader Kings, because it is painfully more-ish.

Comments

[recessional]

wow that sounds excessively tempting.

I should be glad that steam doesn't work well on my laptop. >.>

[mme_hardy]

I found myself turning into the less-introspective and less-kindly version of Henries VII and VIII. "What, the 55-year-old craven and ill Kaiser of the Holy Roman Emperor is willing to marry my 1-year-old daughter? SIGN ME UP!" "I don't care what the long-term consequences are, my first wife was infertile and I need babies now!"

[kate_nepveu]

Sashiko sounds lovely!