The evolution of the german board game

So for the last 20 days or so I have off and on been immersed in a world called Travian. Its a free online game where you have a village and you compete with other players on a world map to turn your wee municipality into a dynamic empire in route to establishing your Pax Joe Little across the known world. Its pretty interesting, like settlers but one game can last 3 months to 300 days or something, I must admit, on the server I am playing on I don't know when the "end" is. I think I'm on the 3 month track but we'll see. I've made a number of rookie mistakes but recently have been using my market to conduct arbitrage in the commodities market, that's been pretty exciting. Since I know the nerd:non-nerd ratio here is pretty high if people are interested we could all form little villages when the next server goes on, form an alliance and impose our will on lesser beings. Or not. But from the amount of enthusiasm that people had for settlers, I imagine this might prove of some interest.

In other news I went for a run/walk from my place through the maze of SW SE to the Jefferson memorial, FDR memorial, Lincoln memorial, and back. Pretty cool, nice to catch my breath while reading inspiring words.

I was out Thursday night with a friend and a young woman (nicely dressed but she'd had a few) started walking around asking if anyone had lost their cell phone in the woman's restroom. She then proceeded to call the contact listed under Dad, briefly commenting on the picture that appeared when she did so(this was around 11:00pm). It was amusing to listen to the one side of the question, especially when she commented that, "You look pretty hot too, Daddy-O." It was pretty awesome.

Well I'm off to Eastern Market to get the best peaches I've ever had. Ta ta.

The state of things

So busy weekend lined up, lets hope that it proves fun in addition to busy.

In not so surprising news it is looking slightly more likely with each day that I will not play club ultimate this year, hopefully some sort of pickup team can be formed for the AY super important friendly spectacular in Naperville event (I assume he's running it) and after that we can cap things off up in Bowdoin, Maine. Plan-wise nothing firm yet, but I have a feeling something could come together.

Anything else, oh! I remember. For those who don't know I bought a car about 2 months ago. A sweet '04 bright blue hyundai elantra. Its a pretty sweet ride. Buying a car was scary, for those who know how cheap I am, try to imagine sitting with me through that whole experience, Trudy was very brave and patient. But so far the car is running fine. I'm learning small things about car ownership, like how to parallel park and changing while driving: which I'm very good at, the driving that is. So yeah, while I used to smirk when others complained about gas prices, now I sit at home (when I'm not commuting to or from there), stare at maps of Saudi Arabia, draw large red arrows from the Persian Gulf and Mediterranean Sea to where I imagine there are oil fields and drop them off at the White House as I run by. I like instigating things.

Well sayonara, until an as of yet to be determined time I bid my faithful readership of 2? 3? a solemn adieu.

Also, I need to make an amendment to prior post. In the great penis line of DC there is a second statue of Lincoln directly on that same line, so add one more I guess. Its in Lincoln Park just across the street from me.

Just got back from a walk

So as the title suggests I just returned from ma little stroll in and around the environs of our fair nation's capital. It occurred to me as I locomoted that tomorrow is the 2 month anniversary of my movie to the DC metro area. Very exciting!

So I initially moved in with Trudy but recently have located to my aunt's place east of the capitol. It's actually a pretty sweet pad. If I were to walk outside of it and stand in the middle of the road on the traffic island I would be standing in a pretty famous line. On it lies a marble representation of Abe Lincoln's crotch, the large phallus memorializing GW, the capital dome, me, standing on a traffic island vaguely reminiscent of a cock and balls, and then home plate at RFK stadium. That's like 6 penis things in a row; I'm sure it will weigh heavily on Nicolas Cage's mind in national treasure III.

So yeah, its a pretty sweet pad that I'm fortunate to stay in for a few months. The downside is that I work in Hunt Valley, MD. Why don't you go ahead and look that up on google maps and then zoom out till you find DC. So yeah, its about 56 miles away, which is pretty awesome. The saving grace is that its against rush hour both ways and I can make the trip in about an hour. A commute I once swore I'd never do, but here I am, blogging like I never swore I wouldn't do. I'm currently investigating some combination of walking, training, more walking, light railing, and yet more walking that will let me not drive every day of the week

I may just be here for the summer and then move up to Baltimore in a bit, then I'll get to go on a walking tour of places that were filmed in The Wire. That would be sweet. I've already been to the community college (CCBC) where Stringer Bell took his economics courses, or where I think he took them: nice place. (SHOOT! I just looked it up and he went to BCCC, oh well)

Well I should sign off for now since it's getting pretty late and I have to take some combination of 295, 495, 195,95,695 and 83 to get to work tomorrow. Good night my reading public and feel free to email, I miss you all.