On Oregon Trail II

I have a pooch. It magically stays the same whether I gain or lose weight. It stays the same through summer, winter and sit-ups. I have a pooch. It's always there. I accept it. Except when shopping for bridesmaid's dresses. I get cranky when shopping for bridesmaid's dresses.

When I'm cranky, I play Oregon Trail II. I loved, loved, loved playing Oregon Trail when I was little and I somehow got a copy of Oregon Trail II. There is something soothing about fictional characters dying in flamboyant ways. Last night in my party of six, two of the party died on the first day out of town. It was a balmy 70 degrees in June, but they were determined to freeze to death. Flamboyant and dramatic and nearly impossible at the same time!

My favorite game so far this week: I was almost to Oregon. SUDDENLY the banjo went off (signaling you have a problem or you need to make a decision). There was a person missing from the party!! Did I want to organize a search party? Why, yes! I can't have a party member dying in a mysterious way without my enjoying it! Unfortunately, the missing person wasn't found. The game continued, but in a very odd fashion. I couldn't make decisions. Food wasn't being eaten. A little notice keep popping up saying "Person near death." But since the rest of my party had died (a whole slew of snakebites in Kansas took them out), it would only be me, the captain, who was dying. The wagon train made it to Oregon! But I couldn't stake a land claim...because I was missing. The damn wagon train left me, their leader, behind! They searched for me, the missing person, for about two seconds before heading off to the Oregon promise land. Bastards!

I took revenge on the next game, but they fired me as captain after we went in many circles around the Snake River without food (or water, but I'm not sure how that happened: we were circling a river).

All in all, my pooch is now contented and I'm enjoying people dying of dysentery, cholera, and bear maulings.

An Erinku:
Pasta boiling
Blissful peanut butter
Soothes the
cranky Erin.