Three good, three bad

Goofy things I like:

• I'm playing Morrowind right now. Well, not right now, but it's my current game. It looks like it could take years to finish, even without buying the two expansions. I found myself in game, sitting on a hill watching the sun rise. It was lovely. I felt like a character in a commercial. Now, I played the first Elder Scrolls game, and it was too much like wandering through a landscape of randomly generated bits. This is Elder Scrolls 3, and it seems to be a landscape of bits that someone thought up. The difference is vast.
• crs got me hooked on Schlock Mercenary. Space opera and comedy, but with good drama thrown in. And it updates daily!
• Middlesex used to have a good counter girl. Then they switched to a less good counter guy, and that was sad. We got three half-reubens instead of a half-reuben and a half-roast-beef, that sort of thing. (Why would anyone want three half reubens? Though maybe it wasn't the counter guy's fault.) But now they have a good counter guy. He put a lime wedge in my water.

Vaguely annoying things:

• I have an amazon credit card, on the theory that buying the things I would already buy will turn into Amazon books every so often. Good theory, but they seem to be really poor at sending me the certificates (I think I've gotten 1 out of the 3 I'm owed, including one that I asked for a second time.) I'd be happier getting them by email, but that doesn't seem to be an option.
• Two of the books I checked out from the MITSFS yesterday claim to be books 1 and 2 in a series, but really, the series is a continuation of a longer series and I shouldn't read them until I've reread the other thing.
• I'm playing Morrowind, see above. Sadly, I can't play it for more than about two hours at a sitting, because it makes me a little motion sick. (I have the girl-kind of motion sick, which means that I don't like when my field of view thinks I'm moving and my inner ear thinks I'm not; getting carsick is apparently more the boy-kind of motion sick.). Now, I probably don't really need to play more than two hours of a game at a sitting, but this does seem to mean that when I play before going to bed, I always go to bed a little queasy.

Sunset Rainbow

A more unusual feature of the sky in Seven Hills Park yesterday was the rainbow, just at sunset. As always, I can't really capture the luminous qualities - this must be what drove the painters of old to start mixing glass dust into their paints.