Grrr.

After spending three months working on Rollercoaster Tycoon, the game suffered an unrecoverable crash, and I lost all the progress I've made! Oooh, that hurts. I reinstalled the game, hoping that if I kept the saved parks in a separate file I'd be able to pick up where I left off. No luck.

See, when you complete a scenario it opens up a new one to do. But the game doesn't care if I have these saved games already, so I have to start all over. grump

On the bright side, I'm a little better at the game now, so the parks that I have to do over will be much nicer. I took a look at the first park I did, and it was a mess. No organization whatsoever. No flow. So I'll do better this time.

The place I work at has a membership to Sam's Club (why? who knows), and the catalog came today. I flipped through it idly and found these wonderful fleece "couch pouches." They look sooooooooo comfortable. But it's the little feet thingees that do it for me. They're basically bags made out of fleece, with a zipper, arms and two little feet thingees at the bottom corners.

Unfortunately, I'm not a member of Sam's Club and I don't know anyone who is. And I'm not about to become a member and drive all that way just to get a glorified nightshirt. True, work does have a membership, but I can't imagine how we could float that past the county auditor.

Auditor: Could you explain to me why a paratransit organization needed a - (checks invoice) - "couch pouch?" Or could you at least explain what a couch pouch is?

Manager: It's basically a bag with a hole on top and cute little feet thingees at the bottom.

Auditor: All right. So... Why do you need one?

Manager: See, we have this dispatcher who was in need of night wear...

Yeah. That probably wouldn't go over very well.

My poor neighbor is popping in and out, checking to see if the office called yet. It's 9:30pm and her electricity has been out since 7:30am this morning. (She only has a cordless phone, which is useless when the power's out.) The guy in the unit behind her had complained to the office that the power kept dimming, so they replaced the box on the side of their units. The electric inspector has to sign off on the repair, but he only works nights. And so they wait.

Ick. I hope my unit isn't next.

All right. I need to catch up on those parks that I lost.