Not really a Sims 2 post

But it is an explanation for why there's no real progress post today...

Many many years ago a friend of mine got (re-)married to a woman I eventually became friends with. She was just here in town, on a stopover on her way from Point A to Point B (she couldn't stay long because she was carpooling) to drop off a portable computer my friend used to own.

Last year, the friend in question died, at rather a young age but unfortunately not entirely unexpectedly; he'd been in poor health for many many years (he was actually on disability) and was not really good about going to doctors. Actually the anniversary of his death was 4 days ago, which I've been kinda down about, but that's not really why this is the only update you're getting today.

Because he was disabled he spent a lot of time on the computer and online, so it's a pretty nice computer, particularly for a portable (can't really call it a 'laptop' as it's big and heavy). His wife offered it to me after his death and since I could really use a backup computer given the problems I've had with this one, I of course said yes. (Besides, having a portable computer is useful in and of itself, but definitely once we get it set up it'll be a good backup computer for us and maybe we can run a dedicated UT server on it, hehe.)

So, anyhow, bringing this in relation to the Sims 2 and my progress or lack thereof today; she couldn't really say for sure when she'd be here until they actually got on the road and saw how traffic was going to be, so I've spent most of the day doing fiddling little things (and non-Sims) things so I wouldn't get heavily involved in anything that I wouldn't want interrupted.

I did start putting together some object recolours—notably, I've added some posters and paintings, and I also did some new crib colours. I've got a lot of various object recolours left, and that's really all I did today and likely all I'm going to do today is fiddle a bit more with that stuff.