no topic, playing Tropic

I wanted to get a dinner with penne pasta and Amy's organic soups, but I accidentally opened the can with stir-fry Asian mushrooms.  I decided to add them to the split pea soup which I am now enjoying.  Penne pasta is good: added cilantro base mix, garlic salt, Soba noodle base, Kikkoman diet soy sauce and some dried herbs. 
It was a busy day at work.  Advent Rising: didn't even finish first levels...got bored...you can sense it's not a new game...made in 2005 and it shows.
I will play the rest of campaigns in Tropico 3 instead. 

peace on earth

Got a cheap Crane humidifier: supposed to help with allergies, make breathing easier, prevent flu-like symptoms....still testing.  Bought some oils for smell: fancy, expensive eucalyptus (~8$) and three 50-cent oils from 99c store: lemon grass, lemon and lilac.  Drinking new flavor Brisk ice tea: peach - not bad, better than their lemon ice tea - will buy again if available at local supermarket.  First day at work was busy, still have stuff to do tomorrow.  Came back from work, ate pasta, slept till 12am.  Now most likely will not sleep all night.  Had decent dreams: almost without violence.  Everything seems to be normal with life.  For some reason, it's not as exciting anymore.  I don't know why, something is missing.  Feels like the whole world died in me.  I like the numbness though.  Will research later.  Also, got another mandatory invite to be a juror.  What a joke this citizen right: it's mandatory.  If you don't come: 30 days in jail and/or 1000 dollars fine.  Shouldn't it be elective if it's my naturalized citizen-democratic right?  Another right - drop everything and go serve in Army in case of global war.  Or what, you get shot?  I wonder if there any actual positive rights to being a US citizen...  not mandatory "freedoms".  I guess you can travel anywhere with just a passport, that's it.  Which is a benefit that every country gives by law.  I don't want to be a juror.  Let people judge, or God.  What if I actually strive to follow the "suggestion" of "Though shalt not judge or you shalt be judged"?  That doesn't fit into the law system with jury duty.  Now I will install Advent Rising.  I doubt I will like that game, but that's all I got left.

looks like I have more content to post this time

The big news is that my refrigerator, where the food is getting so rotten it smells in the apartment, is not fixable.

I was offered a new replacement by landlord, but I decided to buy it myself to prevent increase in rent: same size apartments just a floor up cost 100+ dollars more.  It seems if installation of new bathtub cost an increase in rent, a new fridge should do as well.  Anyway, my parents, as usually, got overly crazy about taking me to buy a fridge.  Of course, I will insist on something smaller, they will enforce their control and I will end up paying more money for some veggie form thing on bottom of fridge that I never use.  Unfortunately, that's nothing new...

The Turok game: it did not impress me from beginning, except for great graphics.  The weapons were not exciting except for one or two: after Borderlands, it was an issue.  I gave up on it where Turok has to fight the tank; maybe I will continue some time later.  I installed another game that I got on sale: Wanted: Weapons of Fate.  I did not see the movie, but noticed that some characters are recognizable as Hollywood actors.  From the first scenes I thought I was playing Earth Defender mixed with Wild-West shooting: characters have very limited mobility, even though special moves are great.  I was not excited about it all the way to the main boss fight - then I got half through it and stop concentrating - got bored...so the character got shot... maybe I will play it later, when I am very bored.  It's almost over...  Actually, I did not like the whole story behind the game - but that's up to Hollywood, I guess, not up to computer game staff.  I still have one more game in my arsenal of bought-dinner-cheap games: Advent Rising.  I will probably install it after tomorrow's purchase of a fridge.  Tomorrow will suck bad, but it is necessary to have a refrigerator in apartment.
It's 1:25 pm now.  I just woke up from a nap.  I am preparing Goya Curry Rice.  Then I will go back to bed. Unfortunately, I might wake up with a slightly bigger stomach.  But that's the price for happiness.  It's my vacation time after all, and it ends sooner than I felt it would.

nothing to do, vacation time.

I finished the 5 wave challenges in all 3 arenas.  Then the next mission, which is most likely not just second but the last one, tells you to finish 20 waves on 3 arenas.  Finishing challenge on 1 of the arenas with 20 waves will take me a full day, 12-14 hours maybe... with breaks...  I cannot deny that Underdome is a great idea for Borderlands and is very exciting.  Very.  But this challenge would take all day and I am not sure I want to kill my eyes for it.  Maybe at some later time...  Not today, most likely not tomorrow either...
By the way, I have this "new" game called Turok... maybe I will install it and see what it is like.
My refrigerator is not working.  I called the landlord, left a note for the super.  So far, super did not come to fix it.  I will wait further.  My acupuncturist said that I should take a break - my stomach is almost flat for now.

holidays

The zombie game add-on to Borderlands is finished.  I am stuck on the first mission in Underdome: turned out to be tougher than expected, but very exciting.  Took the last bag of laundry to cleaners, will pick it up later today.
After acupuncture I will attend a family Rosh Hashana dinner.
Something new is happening in my brain.  It just started and will need to "grow and develop" over some unknown time.  I don't really care...

vacation started

I just finished Borderlands.  Tomorrow I will try to install double game add-on and continue playing it.
Of course, I only played this game as Brick.  I have three more characters to choose from.
I think I got to Level 37 or 38.  I was told it's possible to keep playing after "the End" to get to level 42 or something like that.  Well, the surprise was the alien weapons: as awesome as all "earthly" weapons were, the alien weapons were really bad.  I got "discounted" games through mail, maybe I will play one of them later.

Labor Day Week

Tomorrow will be Friday.  Then there will be weekend.  Then Labor Day - no need to work.  Then I took four days of vacation.  Lots of sleep is the goal.
I am eating an accidentally amazing pasta dish: since I cooked in a small saucepan, I boiled it over very low setting, then added: soba noodle base, two american soy cheese slices, vegeta and salt, soy sauce and "I can't believe it's not butter" spray (quite a few).   Now I feel like: I can't believe it's over...