7.1

Ah, what a wonderful morning. I told about the crappy construction work on Hong Kong housing in my last post. Well, last night I got the full joy of it. I woke up a few times because it was cold in my apartment. Cold. Inside. At a weather above zero. I need to buy that damned radiator.

Here's the local temperature-chart from this morning:


You can see that 7.1 there, in the left end of the map. That's me. That's where I live. It's the coldest place in Hong Kong, and ,in fact, the only place under 10 degrees. Well, I still claim it's not too cold but I'd be a hypocrite to say it's not 'cold'. This morning the temperature inside my apartment was quite enough to convince me put on a t-shirt under my long-sleeve one.

I really, really need to buy that radiator. Even if I need to use only a few months per year. It'll be a good investment.

Just realized today is the last day of this year. So, I suppose a farewell to 2007 is in order. Fare thee well. Maybe in my next post I can write up some summary of things, but now I just can't be arsed.

No plans for today nor for tomorrow. I will probably continue my game of the world's most boring strategy game Master of Orion 3. It's so damned boring I can't really understand why I bother playing it so much, but for some reason I just end up pressing that "TURN" button over and over again - waiting for something new to happen. It never does.

Master of Orion 3 is a game which is kind of like Civilization 4 without all the cool stuff and more of the boring ones. It's a game where nothing dramatic happens, except you never really know why the other Empires suddenly go to war with you without any potential for gain. Or why the balance of power is such, that even with the mightiest of armadas you can successfully attack maybe one star system and then get stuck there. To actually win over even one star system takes such an effort and hours of time that you wonder how you could ever conquer an entire Empire of dozens of star systems - or how to win the game and conquer all the several Empires of the game.

When I played Civilization 4, after playing one (or two at maximum) days, I would know if I was winning or not. I've played Master of Orion 3 for five days now, and I have no idea how I'm doing. For all I know, I maybe the scum of the universe right now and it takes another four to five days until someone just suddenly comes and conquers my systems. I don't know. There's no reward in that game. Yet I still play. I don't really understand myself.