Cav's Place

The planned post that was supposed to go into more detail about the existing three green or ecologist parties that at least some people are actually aware of in Romania will get delayed until next week because I noticed two days ago that, assuming I won’t forget and won’t sleep through it, on Monday I might just be able to find out something more about exactly what the Greens’ Movement did to get itself registered. I mean, I assume I already know the general idea, but the details aren’t exactly clear. Then again, they seem quite guarded about the whole thing, which is the main reason I’m terribly bothered by it, so they may not offer much additional information anyway, but it’s worth a shot.
I should probably be using at least a little of this additional time to look for more information about these parties myself, because I’m otherwise largely relying on memory to plan that post, but of course I’m not doing that. It’s not supposed to be a scientific paper, after all, so what I have will probably be good enough and it counts as one serious and non-personal post per week, so at least I’m no worse off than I’ve been for the past several months.

Meanwhile, I’m really trying to get back to playing Risen. I had sort of given up for a while after realizing that I must help the Inquisition if I want to play as a mage, since I really didn’t want to do that. I hoped that mages would be pretty much independent, so it was a huge disappointment… Not to mention that you seem to even get more experience for helping the Don’s men, on top of the additional gold which at least makes perfect sense, realistically, so that’s yet another very good reason to avoid helping the Inquisition, on top of the, shall we say, matter of principle. But I guess this is a case of being forced to be pragmatic and doing what you have to do to get what and where you want.
It’s really unpleasant, but I’ll be sort of holding my nose and getting it done. I actually bought it, after all, so really should at least play it. Not that I exactly have a good record when it comes to actually playing games I legally purchase, seeing as I still have the full editions of Neverwinter Nights and Morrowind installed and far from finished despite having purchased them four and a half years ago. Morrowind was actually started and abandoned in the spring of 2008 and I haven’t played it again since, though I quite enjoyed it up to that point. I blame that almost entirely on the respawning enemies.
Really, I should stop writing about needing to grin and bear it for a while and just do it. But there’s a reason I have all those other games, whether bought or not, installed and abandoned as well… I’m playing chess against the computer though, if that counts, but still generally get fucked over even on medium difficulty. In fact I just finished the 900th game since I bought this computer, in the spring of 2008, and the statistics say 339 wins, 102 draws and a pretty depressing 459 losses, so exactly 51% of the total.

While wasting time, I happened to bump into another really good artist, Mario Wibisono. Thinking to add a few of his works to the Fantasy Art Gallery, though some are futuristic and realistic, having nothing to do with fantasy, and even those that could count as fantasy rarely fully fit the genre. And of course I know there are lots of really good artists out there, but I need to just happen to stumble into one when I’m in a very specific mood if I’m to start looking for more information and go through their works, and it would appear that I bumped into one of his works at just the right moment for that to happen. So I’ll think about it. I did change the gallery code recently, after all, just to make it easy to add new artists and images, the former code making that extremely tedious, so should take advantage of it, even if I’ll later have a change of heart and decide to remove him after all.
And since I’m speaking of programming, I should also add that my last talk with Mada, to use the name she seems to strongly prefer, sort of reminded me that I wanted to actually write a simple theme for the blog instead of using this really old one that I modified way back then to make it look more or less like I wanted it to. The result of looking into the matter is still the same, namely that I’m baffled at the complexity and the possibilities for even a basic one and just want to throw the idea away and never think of it again, but I might just try… Eventually…

And for something for the “oddly enough” category, I got a spam comment that advertised an “unique producer of quality fake documents”, if you can believe that! Then it listed a few types of documents, several countries they could supposedly be for and some contact information. Seriously, don’t even know how to comment on this. Weren’t such operations at least supposed to be more or less secret? Or is it in fact a trap for those who could be interested in puchasing something like this?

Anyway, I lost plenty of time writing this, so now I can once again put the idea of getting back to playing Risen today aside because I should start thinking about what to write next in that other thing I’m working on. At least that’ll count as doing something, as little as it may be, so the day won’t be quite completely wasted. It’s only, you know, wasted to a pretty regular extent, give or take a little. And for a day that I was thinking I could get to spend alone but didn’t turn out like that, that’s good enough…