Cool gaming article (though what's with the clumsy, mawkish endings to all feature articles these days, anyone know?) that makes me want to acquire and devour Spore, which will necessarily mean first acquiring and devouring a bunch of computer bits.

I've meant to do so since last Christmas, but losing a bunch of data with two simultaneous hard drive crashes (both my internal HDD and external backup device, thank you VERY much, Maxtor) just disheartened me completely. And then there's the time issue: I don't have enough of it to obsess fully over all the parallel enjoyments I'd like to obsess over. And right now, my RP group is getting most of my love, because I'm easily buyable with attention and insane amounts of fun.

I have recovered data to sort first. I'd like to get a full archive of all in-character things we've ever written together (though how I'll resist deleting all my own early posts, I'll never know; I love some of my old stuff, but the rubbish parts and the things written during my less-than-peachy periods make me feel sick). Still waiting for someone to send me an old backup archive. I can still process the bits I've got and work out the best template/storage system and stuff, though. *eyegleam*

It was fictitious mythology nite tonite. Hehe.

That's background stuff I worked out for a co-op story I'm writing with others. My excuse for this enjoyable exercise (a legitimate one!) is that one character, loosely mine but technically shared, lives this stuff and I want to add some depth to her knowledge. The other reason is that the avatars are settling into my brain and demanding attention.

Religion isn't interesting, but I love stories.

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Piper was scared of the fireworks earlier this evening. Now he's near my feet, curled up on the study room carpet and happily sleepy. Not only have the fireworks stopped, he has been brought upstairs, made a flash-bang-excluding nest, fed and provided with a litter tray. This cat really prefers indoor toilet facilities. Too bad for him, most of the year.