Civilization did not spring fully conceived from the mind of Sid Meier back in 1991. It was an extension of his previous work such as Pirates! and more directly Railroad Tycoon. It was also influenced by the board game Civilization, it’s successors such as Advanced Civilization and to a lessor extent History of the World. Other influences came from the literary world…

My cousin in Austria has been on a big Matt Anderson kick, so he and I posted several YouTube videos of Matt playing various original and cover songs on Facebook. I missed out on seeing Matt last time he passed through Vancouver…

We don’t have a lot of little kids in my immediate family, but my sister has two dogs. They are Lab crosses and they are a lot of work. None the less my sister dressed them up and took them down to the local mall to enter them into a costume contest sponsored by Woofy’s…

Today was the first decent day in the last few so we got up early and finished our overhaul of the shrubberies near the front door of my mom’s house…

At some point, an old buddy of mine joined Facebook or found me on Facebook and then after that asked me to play Empires & Allies…