It’s a little after noon on a Monday, I have No Doubt’s “Simple Kind of Life” cranked on my musicmatch jukebox. It’s a song that’s kind of appropriate for things going on right now. I’ll leave at that.
Just finished filing my tax returns and I’ll be dropping off my local taxes today. Talking about waiting to the last moment, oh boy. This year I was determined not to fall into this trap. I mean, seriously, when the tax stuff came in January, I made a special spot for everything on top of my computer desk. I had all my deductions ready to go and I just needed to get the time to sit down and file them at anytime. Guess what? I never got time. It was always something and here, April 15, and I’m dodging a bullet and getting them in.
Got the Sims Vacation on Friday. It seems okay, it’s another Hot Date type expansion — sure there’s a couple of good new house items (bay windows, a bath/shower combo), but the focus seems to be shifting away from enhancing the game’s day to day, to focus on enhancing special events like dates or vacations.
Here’s assorted improvements I’m still waiting for:
* Three story buildings, since there’s no way to simulate an attic or a basement.
* Weather and Seasons
* Days off for the Sims
* Teenage Sims (How can I do a Moopie skin? She’s not an adult and not a little kid.)
* Rounded Corners on buildings. They gave us round tables, so how about rounded walls?
* Washer/Dryers and laundry rooms.
* The ability to list the order of skins. Or if a skin crashes the game, it gives a debug code to tell you what skin it crashed on so you can easily nuke the file.
* The ability to visit other neighborhoods. So my regular Sims and TechTV Sims can finally meet!
One note about Vacation — it’s a serious resource hog. Even more than Hot Date was. I mean I have 1 gig of SDRAM, and XP 1800+ chip and 64 megs of video ram and there are times that it slows down to a crawl. There’s no reason for this. So be warned before you install it.
On that note, taking time to say how proud I am of Moopie for her achievement at school. WTG little one! 🙂
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