The holiday season

The days when the whole society is in hard sell mode.

Hard selling products.

Hard selling religion.

Hard selling participation.

Hard selling politics.

Are we so desperate to make a quota that we turn into automatons spewing out words that only the season makes them "normal", doing actions we don't do 11 months out of the year?

And the TV programming blows goats.

Astro Empires Lyra server

I'll be creating a guild of my own owing no one.  Use the comment box below to let me know if you will be joining me (assuming you play AE and assuming you will play Lyra)

Got the Christmas tree

This was one of those times when tight budgets and my general dislike of large crowds both get to stress me out.

But, off to the tree farm... found that neither Walmart or Target had any christmas tree stands in stock.  So we asked the farm if he had stands for sale.  They did.  It's a disposable stand they nail to the bottom of the tree, 5 bucks.

Considering we lose the stand we had the previous year every year (last year was the one time in a decade we didn't), disposable stand makes sense for us.  And the stand comes with the cross slats, so the tree will stand level, no effort.

Now the tree is in the living room, ready to decorate, and I can sit back and have some Cabernet and play Astro Empires.

Later tonight we'll decorate  the tree and I'll upload the picture to this blog posting.

Example of ZOMG

Location	Bewbs (B50:55:44:31)
Time	2011-12-07 22:09:11
Server	Beta
Attack Force
Player	[BOB] Vitez   lvl 106.24
Fleet Name	Fleet 140
Defensive Force
Player	[S³D] Homeless   lvl 83.04
Fleet Name	Fleet 53 (Destroyed)
Base	193676
Start Defenses	100%
End Defenses	0%
Command Centers	10
Commander	Donald Virgo (Research 18)

Attack Force
Unit	Start Quant.	End Quant.	Power	Armour	Shield
Fighters	40000	31458	5.5	5.3	0
Cruiser	10000	9300.6	57.6	63.6	4.5

Defensive Force
Unit	Start Quant.	End Quant.	Power	Armour	Shield
Fighters	11	0	7.95	5.3	0
Ion Bombers	161	0	35.1	10.6	2.25
Corvette	1	0	15.9	10.6	0
Heavy Cruiser	60	0	176.4	127.2	9
Planetary Shield	10	0	7.8	5427.2	45
Planetary Ring	20	0	3686.4	2713.6	27

Total cost of units destroyed: 222245 ( Attacker: 182510 ; Defender: 39735 )Experience: ( Attacker: +6789 ; Defender: +14217 )New debris in space: 146682Attacker conquered the baseAttacker got 37104 credits for pillaging defender's base.