Update

Today: played "Literati" on Yahoo Games, played Scrabble with Dad (^z), and went to my friend's house for his high school graduation. It was extremely crowded for much of the time; I mostly ate, played Ping Pong and darts in the basement, and jumped on their trampoline until most of the people were gone. At the end, though, there were only three visitors including myself, and along with the graduate and his three siblings, we played "The Gread Dalmuti" until nine. After, he gave me a ride home. So, a good day.

Notes from yesterday/day before: I've finished James Blish's "And All the Stars a Stage" – was not too impressed, really. I don't think I like a lot of the old sci-fi. However, it was galaxies better than the IF game "The Sword of Malice" – I gave it a 2 out of 10, and the 2 was only for not being unplayably full of typos. The problem instead was that (1) it was really easy to make the game impossible to complete, without any indication that you have done so, and (2) the plot was past "pedestrian" and well into "bad".

Anyway, I'm reading "Rainbows End" now – it's Vernor Vinge, but I don't think its as good as his older works. Interesting, though.