My mother just phoned me up . . .

. . . to ask why I haven't posted in my LJ in a couple days.

This is one of the wonderful things about my family: I don't get "you never phone" complaints from my parents, and I'm now free of "you never email" complaints. Now all I have to do is maintain my LJ, and I'm okay.

Seriously, though, I was sick, and slept for 27 hours, and am better now.

In other news: I've started playing a free online game called Kingdom of Loathing. In it, you take one of six character classes (Turtle Tamer, Seal Clubber, Pastamancer, Sauceror, Disco Bandit, or Accordion Thief), and then you go around adventuring. It's basically text-based, and the graphics are all static stick-figure drawings. It's got a wonderful sick sense of humor.

Like, for instance: a week or so ago was Columbus day in the United States. A user, Christobal Kolon, user ID# 1492, had a new item for sale in his store: Comfy Blankets. If you "rest"ed with one of the blankets equipped, you recovered extra hit points.

You also got The Grey Plague, which spreads from player to player in the in-game chatroom, and appends the word -cough- to the ends of things you write. . .

It's probably going to be a whole-game sort of quest thing to get rid of the disease. But it's just funny.