Been trying for the past couple of days to arrange to visit my grandmother, with my sister, but have not yet succeeded. The day we had selected, when I wasn't working, turned out when I called to be a day she'd had to be taken in to the hospital early in the morning for observation.

Didn't know which hospital, overlooked the possibility of asking. She was still in when I called the next day, also, although in expectation of being released home shortly. So I settled for merely picking up my sister and getting her back home, which took about two hours overall in itself.

Good thing of the day: the spinach and mushroom strata I made for dinner came out well, if a bit late.

Bad thing of the day: as I left for work this morning, I tripped on a cable and knocked my laptop to the floor. Found out on returning home, the screen has been broken and is useless.

Neutral things of the day: managed this morning's shift no problems; dug up the monitor for our old desktop PC and got that working with my laptop so as not to be computer-less for the time being.

Also, I feel exhausted. Should go sleep, another early day tomorrow.

In the distant past I made a post suggesting I would be attempting some daily diarying of my life, followed by a whole lot of silence. That was bad timing, as I was immediately hit in the face by five consecutive days of work (not a big deal to most people, I know, but for me that's fairly demanding) overlapping with the beginning of my current semester at university.

I thought, if I made more posts about what I am up to, that might be helpful. Diary entries about what I've intended to do for the day and whether I have done those things. Hopefully an incentive to make sure I actually do those things. Been worried about falling behind on matters of importance.

Today would be a lovely day to sit and read in warm winter sunlight. Unlikely I will be getting much of that done however. Or rather, what reading of fiction I might do is by vast degree most likely to be skimming of Hard-Boiled to get caught up on the rating writing backlog.

The next game in the line-up was one of several added after the first post. It is not even a roguelike, but I have been generous enough to offer it tentative inclusion in the category 'roguelikelikes', although in this case that could be a little unfair. (Edit: since the developer announces releases at rec.games.roguelike.announce, perhaps it is fair enough)

Past time for a new one of those. Next game on the list is venerable Angband, which turns out to be younger than I was expecting, only beginning development in 1990 according to Wikipedia. It is the first example on this play-through of what are called the 'major roguelikes', the iconic examples of the genre.

I should have known they were not yet done with me. More deliveries to make, but I snuck off some time for my own study. Now I have a better wand.

It seems a mage named Arugal is slated for the Forsaken's wrath. The name sounds familiar.

My spells are glitching today, this is going badly. Need to rest.

Of course the delivery of those messages was not the end of my involvement. I am sent back out of the city on further missions, nearer home than I had expected. At least one is near Brill; there are supplies there I have use for, and I have yet to learn well the paths of Undercity.

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This is embarrassing. Abigail does not have what I need. I think I must return to Undercity already. Fortunately the twilight paths of Tirisfal Glades are quite pleasant to walk. I wonder if anywhere else could compare?

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