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More video game goodness
March 23, 2003

Ok, I took back Baldur's Gate.  The main problem in the end was that I had to cheat to win.  I didn't see any way to get to the end without cheating. 

There was this ridiculous section of dungeon at the end of the first act that is just a spiral inward.  There are no save points.  At this point, I have used a cheat to make myself invincible and give myself all spells.  I'm getting poisoned and bitten by spiders.  There are thieves that would otherwise have killed me in one good blow.  I killed everything and I didn't level up until after the very last boss.  I made level 5.

D&D in Philly
March 22, 2003

We visited Jen at her new house in Philly this weekend to play D&D.  It's a pretty nice place.  The only thing that I didn't really like about it (and it wasn't a big deal) was the lack of yard.  Actually, that would probably suit me better than having to mow.  Of course, Abby would probably enjoy grass to stain the knees of all of her clothes.

After dinner, we played D&D.  Dave ran this City of the Spider Queen module we've been going on for a while.  I really hate drow.  I think this game is having problems, though.  As always, the first issue is that it's difficult to remember what we did in the previous session when that session took place three weeks prior, but there's nothing we can do about that since it's based around Jen's work schedule.

Verizon catches up with me
March 21, 2003

"Well, it was bound to happen eventually."

I got a call a few weeks ago on a Saturday from a Verizon employee.  He wanted to confirm that I had received notice that my service was going to be "upgraded".  Of course, I had not.  So he proceeded to politely explain that I was going to be switched over from a CAP line to a DMT line.  That's a good thing.  Unfortunately, I was going to need new hardware.  In itself, that's not bad, but it does preclude my use of a static IP.