What now?

Yesterday, some friends and I finished our conquest of the world by capturing all the cities of Japan and America. It only took us about 14 hours, too, split up over a few evenings. Washington put up a fight, but everything else fell pretty handily. And, in the end, even Washington couldn't stand up before our assembled forces.

The question is, what do we do now that the Civilization game is over? Yes, we conquered the world more subtly with secret shadow organizations (otherwise known as the Illuminati), but there's only so many times you can conquer the world before it gets old.

Like living with a poltergeist...

We're painting the walls and redoing the floors in my room early next month, so I'll be moving upstairs for a few weeks. A corollary to this is that we need to take just about everything out of my room while this is happening.

My mom, ever the ambitious sort, has taken it upon herself to box up a lot of my stuff in preparation for the renovations. So every few days for the last week or two, I've come home to find something else missing. One day, it was all the books from my bookshelf. Another day it was the bookshelf itself. Yesterday, I came home to a room with no blinds. Today, I have no sofa, though I do have clothing hanging from a temporary stand on wheels.

What next? Who knows. It's an adventure, right in my own room.

At least it keeps me on my toes, I suppose.