...soooo....slooooooow

The "I Hate This Process and Want to Die" Font is already installed.
If you want to install a new version you will have to uninstall it first.
[OKAY] [CANCEL] [SHOOT SELF IN HEAD]

I think I'll be ready to install the Sims in a couple days. I guess.

So, get this...

We have this stack of shiny new computer components. Brand new AM2+ motherboard released this year, brand new CPU, brand new video card (I think it's like a month old, seriously), Lightscribe DVD drives, dual SATA hard drives, pretty widescreen monitors. Actual state of the art equipment, yanno. Which is a first for me, by the way.

more partses

We now have a Mighty Stack of Boxes. We are waiting on video cards, however, and input devices (we could transfer the ones we have but for ease's sake for file transferring it'll be easier to have all 4 boxes running until that's taken care of.)

Incidentally, the setup fFIL chose for hard drives? RAID drives. That means I will automagically have data backup on a mirrored drive. The chances of both drives failing catastrophically at once, particularly since he also sent us each a UPS which should avoid the stupid "brownout = computer crash = hard drive damage" problem, is pretty slim, so hopefully I will avoid ever completely losing data, though the downside is that corruption would be copied to the mirror, too. But soft file corruption is usually easier to work around than "My sector is full of holes", so I'm optimistic it'd mean less likelihood of having a major catastrophic loss of data even if something does go wrong in the future.

Also: widescreen monitors. Heh-heh. Yes, I know I already said that, but you have NO idea how long I've been drooling over those, and Sims isn't the only game I play that'd benefit from it.

heh-heh

Widescreen monitors.

(The computers aren't here. The monitors are.)

More delays, but some good news, too

Well, the bad news is I no longer can predict a solid date for when I will be putting anything out. There's three reasons for this: the first is my cold came back so I kinda didn't really do anything Simsy last week. (I feel better now.) The second is a really good reason that involves joy and happiness and great celebration, or at least it does from me.