Minor annoyances

[liv]

Things that are annoying me right now:

• My work email seems to have died.
• My CivII game is beset by a really pointless but costly stalemate of a border war.
• A potentially interesting discussion chez ozarque on gendered language and religion has degenerated into people making really ignorant statements about Hebrew names for God which I can't even be bothered to correct. Frankly, a discussion that starts out being about Judeo-Christian theology is probably not going in the fruitful directions I'd hope for.
• It has taken me about 6 hours to do some really simple clerical tasks, and as a result I'm too late to return my bookies to the library before their due date.

And I'm posting about it because I peeved about my email dying just when I'm feeling communicative. But actually life is good in general. Wasting 6 hours and being no more than mildly irritated about it is a symptom of a very happy state, I feel.

Comments

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

I hope that's a server going down or you not being able to reach it rather than the account going away now that you're finished, yes ?

[ You only have one mail from me today, which is in reply to the Jewish mysticism one I got from you this morning. ]

[liv]

I hope that's a server going down or you not being able to reach it
Something like that, but I think it may be a bit more serious than the usual server problems, cos it's giving me unusual error messages and several different ways of accessing my account are all failing (rather than just IMAP which has always been sporadic.) Can't get to the server status page from home, unfortunately.

rather than the account going away now that you're finished, yes ?
Oh, they won't intentionally kill my account till September. I fully intend to make a post with all the alternative ways of contacting me long before that happens! Frankly I'll be glad to be rid of this email address, it's getting spammy and the server and supporting systems have never worked well. I only keep it because I want a professional-looking address to put on CVs and the like.

You only have one mail from me today, which is in reply to the Jewish mysticism one
I have it now, as of this morning. Thanks for letting me know; it's always helpful when I can't get at email to know just what I'm missing.

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Wasting 6 hours and being no more than mildly irritated about it is a symptom of a very happy state, I feel

good way to look at it. & :-)

[hatam-soferet.livejournal.com]

I just played devil's advocate on the religion thread. Cos I felt evil and I'm procrastinating. I want to have a bath, but that entails cleaning the tub and I hate cleaning the tub.

[darcydodo]

CivII is often rather annoying like that. Do I even have an address for you besides your work e-mail? (Not that I've sent you anything since you answered my French question.)

[liv]

CivII is often rather annoying like that.
It can be, but it's not always this annoying. Usually when a war happens, either I'm winning sufficiently that they give up, or at the very least the enemies accept it when I surrender. I've been at war with Carthage for like 500 years, and neither of us has lost one single city in that time, we've just been wasting resources creating cannon fodder for eachothers' troops. Sometimes they sue for peace or demand tribute or whatever, but then they just make 'sneak' attacks 3 turns later, so I've stopped even pretending to negotiate with them.

Do I even have an address for you besides your work e-mail?
You have my Gmail address (rachelgb), and livredor@lj works, plus there's my domain which I'm not mentioning in public posts but you do know about it, it's the Carroll reference.

(Not that I've sent you anything since you answered my French question.)
We mainly communicate by phone and LJ rather than email, I think. I feel useful for being able to help you with French! And I've been answering a handful of Support requests in French too, which pleases me. Not much interpreting for the beautiful redhead recently, though, cos I've not been in the lab much.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

It can be, but it's not always this annoying. Usually when a war happens, either I'm winning sufficiently that they give up, or at the very least the enemies accept it when I surrender. I've been at war with Carthage for like 500 years, and neither of us has lost one single city in that time, we've just been wasting resources creating cannon fodder for eachothers' troops.

I am old-fashioned enough to still be playing original Civ, but was wondering, does Civ II never generate a situation I find comes up in original Civ quite a bit, which is that if I am being expansionist across a sizable continent and beating back a large neighbouring civilisation and there's also a very small one on the same continent, the small one will build a Wonder of the World in one of their cities, which will be small enough that one cannot risk attacking it lest one destroy it, and then continue stupidly sending aggressive militia units and the like out at you for however many centuries it takes until you get to the point where you can take this city in a way that does not cause it to lose size [ as frex with a battleship or artillery ] ? The game I'm currently in the middle of playing has Greeks in who did that for just short of two millennia.