Cav's Place

I’m no closer to writing that review than I was a week ago, but keeping busy with Two Worlds II at least means that I can put off the expected major crash caused by the fact that later this month it’ll be seven years since she left. Can’t be out of the game and awake for long without pretty much curling up in a ball, which was proven yesterday when I only played for about three hours but basically didn’t do anything else the whole day, only spending some 30 or 40 minutes adding a paragraph to my story… But at least playing for so long, even getting to a good eight hours per day, means that my eyes are very tired and therefore I sleep rather well when I go to bed, so there’s that.
Strangely enough, however, the fact that I’m playing so much doesn’t stem from particularly liking the game. It’s decent, but in quite a few ways it’s worse than the first one and I keep adding to the list of complaints that I decided to keep in order to make it easier to review it after I’ll finish it. And yes, that list would also include positive aspects, but I only found a couple of those. Still, it’s an RPG, it offers a huge world with a lot of content, which is unfortunately increasingly unusual for modern games, and is very forgiving, at least if you play a mage, so I don’t get frustrated and can just keep at it.

Otherwise, that annoying atopic dermatitis seems to be flaring up worse lately, which is actually rather unusual when you think that it’s getting cooler now. I keep waking up scratching my balls raw, and this morning I woke up scratching my balls with one hand and my chest with another, which is even more unusual since it rarely flares up on my chest either way. But I’ve been putting up with this for some 13 or 14 years now, if not even longer, and I’ve been told that I should expect it to keep getting worse with time, in the sense of affecting even more areas, so that’s that…

As for what’s going on outside, the weeds had just started growing again now that the heat wave was over and of course they’re mowing them again. Nothing had grown during the heat wave, so all that was left after the last time they had mowed them were piles of dried leaves and stems, which was actually quite a fire hazard if anybody’d have bothered to think about it, but recently the lower temperatures allowed things to grow again, so I was looking at what was starting to become a proper green area once again, even if they’re just weeds, and of course somebody couldn’t stand that.
If they don’t want the weeds, they could plant trees all over this area and, once they’ll grow sufficently, the shade won’t allow other things to grow around them, so the problem will be solved while keeping the area green. However, a couple of years ago they even removed what little trees were starting to grow on their own behind the fence, so there certainly seems to be no chance of that. They just mow everything that dares to grow and then leave the dried leaves and stems there, along with the branches from those trees that were removed then, which are still in a huge pile ever since.