Having used all my money and vacation this
year on purchasing and moving into a house, I
was unable to attend the RinkUnion. I was,
and still am bitterly disappointed about this,
and the plethora of RU3 documentary posts
that have been popping up lately have only
served to heighten the immense sense of
loss that I am currently experiencing.

Here's what I did this weekend to make up for
not going:

On Friday evening, I mowed the lawn.

Saturday morning, I cleaned both of our
showers. Afterwards, I went into RinkChat and
lamented not being at the RU. Then I logged
off. I worked on some stuff on my computer for
a while, then made lunch. It occurred to me
that I could paricipate "in spirit" with the RU by
watching my copy of Sinbad, so I put it in, but
only got to watch it for a little while. I had to turn
it off just after the "HA!"

Saturday afternoon, I was supposed to be
working on my web site, but instead
discovered that the entire folder on my hard
drive containing all the scanned artwork from
my portfolio was corrupt and had to be
deleted. I think I have it backed up on CD
somewhere, so all is not lost, if I can find it. So
I didn't work on my web site at all, but cleaned
up the computer room / back bedroom and
took a nap instead.

Saturday evening, we took our son out to his
favorite restaurant (McDonalds) and then went
shopping (Sam's Club and Kroger). At Sam's
I finally got my long-awaited copy of
Westwood's Red Alert 2. We didn't buy
anything else there, although we looked at
diapers, cheese, and soap. At Kroger's we
bought the soap. (It was on sale there so it
was cheaper than Sams', which is normally
not the case.)

Saturday night, I wanted to install and play
RA2 but instead ran scandisk on my computer
after deleting that corrupt folder I mentioned
earlier. It didn't find anything wrong. Afterwards
I installed RA2 but by then it was after ten so I
didn't play it much before going to bed.

Sunday I went to church, spent all afternoon
planning a game for Labor Day weekend and
playing RA2, and went to church again. I
played RA2 a little bit more after we got home,
and then went to bed.

Gri"RU3 sounds more fun, no?"shny