Cav's Place

The title pretty much tells you what you need to know about this post and I also seem to have gotten back to not feeling like writing anything in my blog, most probably due to the fact that this temporary lack of significant new developments as far as the protests are concerned means I no longer need to at the moment, so this will be short. Thankfully, switching the focus away from here once again seems to have allowed me to do slightly more for my story over the past week or so, which was definitely needed, so at the moment I’ll call it a very good thing.

About the first part of the title, I have to say that, after some time spent rather casually poking around either the first Might and Magic or King of Dragon Pass, the former largely out of curiosity, to see how open world RPGs looked and played in 1987, and the latter mainly to make sure it actually works, I somehow managed to get over my reluctance to attack one of my two allies in the campaign scenario I was stuck at and therefore got back to playing Age of Wonders II: The Wizard’s Throne. Of course, I’d have certainly preferred not to have to do that, but since they were at war with each other and there’s no diplomacy option to ask AI-controlled wizards to make peace with each other, the only way to win was to wipe out one of them, so the allied victory condition will apply once only me and the other one will be left. Since then, I finished one more scenario and got past the difficult early stage of yet another, but now I haven’t touched it again since Tuesday, so let’s see how that’ll go.
As for the second part, it obviously means that I went to watch The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Seeing as I wanted to avoid crowds and also have a chance to leave after it’s over and go elsewhere as well before it gets dark, I went yesterday from 1:10 PM, but it seems that I avoided crowds rather too much, because all of 11 people were in the theater and the employees seemed rather bothered by needing to work for so few, seeing as we’re talking about the IMAX from here and it can seat about 400 people.

Next week, I guess I should go looking for a pair of pants once again, and maybe a better winter jacket and some warmer socks and slippers, seeing as those I have now have been in poor shape for quite some time. Not that I haven’t been looking for pants during the past several “discount seasons” as well, but I want a pair that’s just about exactly like these ones I have, and cheap as well, which doesn’t seem to be available anymore, at least not in any place I know of where you don’t have to directly deal with people to try and buy one.
With most shops starting to make significant discounts already, I checked out a few places yesterday as well, since they were on the way, but still no luck and I fear more and more that I’ll need to give in and get something else… In which case I’m inclined to give up on the cheap ones and look for something that will be something of an investment, which is already the plan for the jacket as well, but then I’ll be too afraid to make such a choice, considering the cost if I’ll later realize I didn’t make the best one, so it’s rather likely that I’ll just waste a day or two and then see about sewing a couple more holes in what I have.