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I'm not feeling very well.
At first I was just headachey and coughy and sneezy. But then later in the day I felt very lethargic. I thought it might just be the drugs I'm taking, but they say "non-drowsy."

Well, I'm inclined to believe that they are indeed the source of that problem anyway... One would think it's different for different people, after all.
Besides, I don't need to go to sleep; I already tried. It was relaxing, but... I never fell asleep.

Then a few minutes ago I went for a glass of water, and after I came back (I think it was the water -- even though it wasn't very cold or anything -- but it could have been the movement) I got really shivery. It's died down quite a bit, but... it's still pretty weird.

So if you haven't figured it out by now, this is going to be a fairly short post (I picked what seemed like the two simplest subjects from my notebook).


I have not watched anything on the Olympics today, but yesterday I watched several things. I think I watched men's beach volleyball for the longest. It was the U.S. team against the Latvian team. Latvia won, but not by a lot... anyway, they were pretty low-ranking, so that was a pretty big disappointment for the U.S. team... I want to see how well the team does in later games; it was obvious they are really good, but they just weren't doing their best... nerves or something, I guess.

Anyway, in the future I'd like to see more of that as well as fencing, boxing, and maybe some other stuff I can't think of right now.... Hopefully that isn't all over already.



So anyway.
Aside from special occasions such as the olympics and when good movies are on, I don't watch a lot of TV.
What I do watch is mostly on the food channel.
That might sound silly to you, but it's very interesting. It's educational and quite entertaining as well.

I like watching the Iron Chef; it's basically a big cooking competition. I used to watch the Japanese version (but dubbed in English, of course; I don't speak Japanese) a long time ago, and after that the earlier American version (which wasn't all that great).
So, yeah, I enjoy that quite a bit.

Also, there's sometimes reality TV type things, which normally wouldn't appeal to me, but this time they're interesting.... Because it's to determine who will be the next Iron Chef or the next person to get his or her own show.

Then I love Alton Brown's show, "Good Eats." He had another show, but I never saw it (I think he's doing something else similar pretty soon). I probably would have liked it though.
Anyway, he's really interesting to watch. He's really good at all kinds of food, and he knows all the background information, too; where all the ingredients come from and the science behind why stuff works the way it does... he really knows his stuff! He's also very funny to watch. "Good Eats" is a lot like Bill Nye's show, but with food.
So... yeah. I highly recommend it; go watch.


Now, I'm going to give you a quick overview of some games I like to play online; if you want, you can Google/Wikipedia search them to get more information (I would provide you with more, but like I said, I don't feel very well, so I'm going to try to wrap this up fairly quickly). I'm just going to stick with the computer stuff; if you have a DS, let me know what games you have....


---The Battle for Wesnoth.
This is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy setting. I really like it; it's a lot of fun to play and it has a lot of polish, especially for a free/open source game.
Unlike many games of this genre, there are actually multiple single-player campaigns, and a lot of them are of a pretty decent length (I still haven't gotten around to finishing "Heir to the Throne", the "main" campaign, despite having been playing the game for two or three years now).
But you can also play multiplayer hotseat, over a local network, or online.


---Savage: The Battle for Newerth
This would take a while to describe properly. It's also in a fantasy setting (it's sort of weird; like Aborigine / native American folklore meets steampunk), and it's... well, it's either a strategy game or a fighter/shooter thing. You can be the leader and play it like a real-time strategy game, or you can be one of the units on the field (obviously there are many more of these; each team only gets one leader, otherwise that would be weird). When the leader tells you to go some place, destroy some building, etc., it'll show up on your screen telling you where to go. You can ignore all the instructions, but the leader is less likely to give you extra money and suchlike. Also, you often will mess up miserably when you don't follow instructions.
This used to be a commercial game, but now it's free (to advertise the sequel, I guess).

---Civilization III (: Conquests)
It's a strategy/simulation game; you've probably heard of it.
I really, really like this game. I have liked it for a very long time (it's been several years now, I really don't know when I first started playing but it was fairly new at the time, I think; there was only the "Play the World" expansion), and I guess it would be considered "old" now. But it's still an excellent game! Yes, it does cost money... but since it's old, you may be able to find it cheap used.
I've never played online before... and games always take a long time (you are, after all, building your civilization from the ground up)... but I would really like to try it anyway!

---Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim (: The Northern Expansion)
This is a real-time strategy game, but it's refreshingly different: you don't have direct command over any person in the game. You can give them motivation (like bounties placed on foes), but other than that, where to go is up to them. You are, of course, in charge of construction and financial management and all that, though.
It's interesting and challenging trying to motivate the heroes in your kingdom (and sometimes those in other kingdoms!) to do what you want.
Majesty is also a commercial game, but it is also pretty old, too, so if you do find it it will probably be pretty cheap.
This is another game I have never played online. Games could potentially be pretty short, but... nobody plays it anymore; it's pretty old and not as popular as CivIII (although there's a sequel coming!).


...If you play any of these games, let me know so we can play online some time!
...There might be more; I'll post about them later if I think of them.
Right now, I'm going to bed.