Weekend update -- War of the Roses

War of the Roses was fantastic.

( More detailed report behind here )

So that's it. Today's big project is setting up my new computer. To that effect, I'm off to buy a FireWire cable. Cheers!

Soon, it shall be mine

Civ IV, that is. I found a store that sells it, and they have it on hold for me. I'll pick it up after dinner tonight.

On the other hand, the internet on this new computer is being really slow for some reason. Well, not *really* slow, but certainly slower than it should be. Hm... this deserves some investigation.

Also, I'm not too thrilled about the keyboard on this new laptop. It will take some getting used to.

On the up-side: I now have a camera built-in to my computer; I can scroll and right-click with my trackpad; and the screen is just enough bigger that I'm noticing the difference. Also on the up-side: the transfer of files went off without a hitch, and I now have access to all my files, preferences, bookmarks, etc. Yay!

Or not.

Apparently, though my brand-new computer has or exceeds all the other requirements, the graphics card on the MacBook is simply not good enough to run Civ IV. I stand by my choice of buying this (rather than a MacBook Pro), given that I really didn't want to spend an extra $1000 to play a single game, but it stings us, precious, it stings.

On the one hand, that's countless hours I won't be frittering away playing Civ IV.

On the other had, I really, really wanted to fritter those hours.

Now, since I'm *not* going to be spending the rest of the evening gleefully playing Civ, the question is whether I want to stay downtown for 3 hours (maybe go to Chapters or something) or go home for 1.5-2, factoring in travel time.