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Achieved one of my life's ambitions. I have uploaded a copy of the map, from the battle of Tunes. Into my age of Empires game. Hurrah!
I note that Age of Empires may have been released on the same day I returned from the USA.

I had a tough week.
I lost my phone. I cannot now whats app
The Change in the weather has hit us hard. I am listless from  the cold. My Baby daughter  has a fever. Which disturbs her sleep and thus our sleep
I was late for a class. They sent the students home

100 things I liked

100 things I like/liked

In no especial order:

Watching Fraiser
Drinking Milkshake
Listening to Robbie Vincent on LBC
Watching Sport in Question with my brother
Smoking a soft pack of camel cigarettes
Watching QPR
Listening to Jefferson Airplane
Stefany
Watching Xena, Warrior Princess
Eating B.L.T Sandwiches
Dinosaurs
Playing Age of Empires
Eating Pancakes
Wearing Dr Martens
Valya!
Watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Eating Marmite and toast
Robyn
Watching the Walking dead
Playing Tetris
Eating Pepperami. Dunking them in tea
Drinking Leffe Blonde
Meike :)
Watching Quantum leap
Reading the Great war American front novels
Drawing Zacheins,
Watching Lost
Eating Steak and Kidney pie
Being in Hawaii on Holiday
Playing Sonic the hedgehog
Watching Bob downe under
Going to a Carolina Hurricanes match
Veronica
Watching either of the Battle Galatica's
Going to Christmas markets in Germany
Drinking Doombar bitter
Georgeina the Russian barmaid
Watching Family Guy
Charlotte
Watching the Road. The film, based on the novel.
Hanging out in Desmonds, in NYC
Watching Star Trek the next generation, on wednesdayy
Jaqui
Watching the Carolina panthers
Eating at hooters
Paola-now Nicolle
Drinking Cream soda
Going to GAA games with dad
eating M& Ms
My Carolina Hoodies
Reading the Jeremy James books
Going to Ireland, for long summer holidays
Regina
Reading the Ber Rabbit stories
Playing with lego
Jane Hamilton
Watching Hell Boy 2
The Civil war pictures my brother and I took at Virginia beach
Sitting on the Balcony, smoking with my UNC set
Eating Walls Vienetta
Drinking Hot chocolate
Watching American Gladiators, in the middle of the night
Hot Tomato soup
August, the lady, not the month
Reading 500 ad
Playing Birth of the federation on my pC
Watching Airwolf
Listening to the Ben Folds five
Marina
Taking part in the liberal studies debates
Watching the X Files
Hanging out, in the Abbey Road, Virginia beach
Penelope from High School
Drinking Mint tea
Watching Alias
Kasia
The eating of Cornish pasties
Watching the A-team
Celtic civilization classes
Eating Fruit and Fibre cereal for breakfast
Watching the Mysterious cities of Gold
Kat!
Reading 90 Minutes Magazine
My black Carolina panthers sweatshirt
Susanne
Drinking 7up, during the Fido dido years
Looking at New talent Magazine
Watching Phoenix nights
Kat and Olya
Drinking Irn bru
Playing Astrowars!
Reading the Beta ray bill graphic novel,
Playing with Grimlock
Eating Poutine
Listening to Tony Robinson tell the story of Odysseus
Being in North Carolina
Snorkeling, at the public baths

Age of Empires

My friend Miss Misery challenged, one and all, to a game of MarioKart, on the Wii the other, day. I have a co worker who will take a week off, to immerse himself in the ``World of Warcraft''

My favourite computer game. Or video game, whatever the cool kids, are calling them now, are the age of empires, series
I first discovered the game, in a demo disk, one of my brothers had picked up. I downloaded the demo, on the old Hewlett Packard. It may have been on a 2.5 disk.
I played the demos day and night. I was hooked.
I should explain the premise. Of Age of empires. its a real time strategy game. You basically try to dominate the world. You start of with a stone age tribe, and by collecting resources, you build up your military and industrial base, to a point, where you can beat your neighbours in combat, or surpass them in public worlds, wealth or points.
So, you tribe, starts off, gathering fruit from bushes, and hunting animals, and later learns how to farm , build fishing ships, and trade
The demo version. I obtained, had a series of games, set during the Punic wars. It gave me the chance to play Hannibal. I had always had an interest in Ancient Carthage.
I resolved to buy the series. I went to the shops, and picked up Age of empires, the rise of Rome. Expansion pack. For 30.00. Only to discover to my horror, I needed to by Age of Empires. I had to wait a week, before I can return and exchange the product. I was temping at the time. I earned the money to buy the game. Working at a race track. Washing plates.
I picked up the rest of the series later. Finally I got my hands on the expansion pack, and then. The Age of Titans spin off. Which deals with Greek mythology. I did not like that so much.
As well as the follow ups. The Age of kings, The Age of Kings, the Conquerors expansion. I even have it on my sorely neglected Nintendo DS. I was some times seduced by the rival Cossacks franchise.
So why do I love this game.
1: Its pretty good history. A High school student, wishing to pick up something about the ancient world. Would do far worse, then to simply play the game, and read the manuals. The help, feature. Was tired to a database, with pretty good overview of the Roman legion. The Balista, or the Galley.
Playing the game, you see the different that the wheel barrow, and handcart made, in productivity. You learn the importance of logistics and finance. You often run out of gold. You can only support 50 piece, Villagers, fishing boats, catapults and soldiers.
In the later editions, the villagers, have gender. They also speak in their native tongue's
2 I get to be Hannibal, or Alexander. Or in the later games, Brian Boru, or Cortez. The Age of kings, expansion, features maps based on the real world. So one can invade Iceland, or liberate Mexica.
3. There is a map editor, built into the game. I get to design my own worlds. I get to loose myself.
The game is nearly 10 years old. I reinstalled it onto my PC today. It was an argument of an age of empires game. That was the last straw with a girl. I used to know.
I was playing Age of empires, when I got the first message from my friend Tan.  I once tried to play the game online, and got beaten horribly by a load of 8 year olds.
For most of the time, Its there on my hardrive, overlooked by e-mails, and MP3 but its always there, ready to take me somewhere else. Which is what makes a good book, and a decent computer game