Cancellations

So it looks like my weekend plans are entirely cancelled, which is probably a good thing considering that I still feel like utter crap. I was supposed to be going out to lunch with Mum today but I didn't think I could cope with that, what with the snurfling and the hacking and the rest of it, so I cancelled with her yesterday morning and we're probably going to end up doing that next week. I'd have still considered at least trying to get to mitchy's to fix her computer, but she asked for a postponement on the grounds of being busy and stuff, which I don't mind because I'm not sure I could handle the train journey. As it stands, it looks rather like I'm going to have to hie off to the doctor's on Monday if this doesn't improve, because pounds to pastries I've got the same chest infection kinda thing that dodgyhoodoo's got and ... well. Yay.

So now I need to find alternate Things To Do this weekend. Of course, having no energy to speak of scuppers a lot of what I could be doing, but I've never really mastered the gentle art of sitting around doing absolutely nothing. I have a couple of errands to run anyway, so there'll be the killing of various birds with the one stone, I think. Then I'm going to be as sedentary as my low boredom threshhold will allow.

One of the things I was considering was picking up the new(ish) Sims 2 Kitchen & Bathroom Stuff Pack. Amusing thing about that particular Stuff Pack is that it turns out that EA didn't set up the new fridges to do any of the neat stuff that comes with Seasons or FreeTime. Of course, now that I've sat down and thought about it, I can kind of see why - it's not like everyone even has the new EPs. But instead of providing a downloadable patch on the Sims 2 website, they left it as it was and let the Sims 2 fan community fix it themselves. So one of the motivations to get the new Stuff Pack is to finally get to shut down the Firefox tab I've got devoted to a fan-patch that allows one to use the new fridges fully. On the whole, while I get that not everyone has all of the EPs, and EA's busy working on Sims 3 (which looks really awesome, by the way), I wonder if making the fans do their own patch-work after making them pay for the product is really the way to go. Fan-created content and stuff is one thing, but maybe fan-fixes are going just a touch too far?

So the running - change into a T-shirt that's not stained from the inside out with Vaporub. Pad out to do a bit of shopping, because if nothing else, we need dinner fixings, I need to top up my pre-pay cellphone credit and I'd like to try to find some cough syrup that doesn't taste like aniseed-infused tar. Possibly get some lunch. Come home and collapse.

I kind of envy dodgyhoodoo. He's at least got the energy to try getting into the city proper to go take pictures of stormtroopers at a sci-fi con. I struggle to get farther than the front door.