One of the parks near my house put up a little free library case. The book Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs caught my eye, so I took it home. I giggled to myself when I saw the chapter Billy Sim, because anytime I hear, or read the word "sim", I automatically think of The Sims. As it turned out, this chapter really was about The Sims, and it was fascinating to read someone else's account of it, and see some familiar names. I won't say any more about it, because I don't want to spoil anything for anyone, but I just had to share. The book is a fun, non-official memoir of the author, so each chapter is pretty self-contained; you won't be lost if you only want to read the part about the Sims, though I highly recommend reading the whole book.

Now that my classes are over with for the quarter, I can get back to simming! I booted up the game last night and was all ready to send Alice & Hadron over to test out the hospital, and get some story shots done, when I realized I needed some staff to run the place. I quickly made up a doctor and nurse, then motherloded them to hell and back so they could buy the hospital; remember, I need to go into live mode to remove that object that's wedged into the tile. Just when I grabbed the "stuckobjectremover" thingy, my game minimized to the desktop due to a fricken' pop-up, and since I had already been playing for about 7 hours, it wouldn't load back up afterwards. So, as it stands, I still don't know if the new hospital is even playable... I'm going to be sooo pissed if it's not.