Tag Archives: Age of Empires

Forgotten Empires

I’ve mentioned before on this blog that I loves me some old stragety video games.  I particularly like Age of Empires and Age of Empires II, as they hit my history geek sweet spot in just the right way. So I was delighted to learn at the end of 2012 that an unofficial expansion pack […]

I am tired and I am a video game geek and the world must know

I got off work at 2:30pm today.  And that’s a good thing because I’m mentally and physically exhausted from Wednesday… and the rest of the week too.  But mostly Wednesday.  What a fucking day.  And Wednesday is in honour of our god Odin.  Praise be to him! You see, Odin had some crows to help […]

Playing games with my printer

Ah, vegetation day.  I try to make that Saturday, but I was too busy yesterday.  And now on Sunday I sit around and do as little as possible.  That’s a shame because I have a ton of stuff I need to get done.  Oh well. Right now, as I did rather recently, I am playing […]

Old games

It’s way past my bed time.  Good lord, it’s almost 11 PM! I long ago declared Saturday’s to be my vegetation day, but I end up doing a lot of work anyway.  Still, that didn’t stop me from playing Civilization II again today.  I like Civ II because it can run on my virtual Windows […]

Song of the Day: “Sweet Emotion” by Aerosmith

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet Emooooooooooooooootiooooooooooon! This was the song that made me fucking love Aeroschmidt.  Not so much newer Aeroschmidt, but the old OLD Aeroschmidt. Aeroschmidt is a lesson all about drugs.  When you play rock and roll, drugs are good… up to a point.  When you go clean and make a comeback, you’re not as interesting as […]