mithriltabby | (no subject) (Reply)

My street is in a part of Sunnyvale whose property values have appreciated considerably. Some of my neighbors are nouveau riche who are building great big houses and going to all manner of effort with their lawns; some own their own homes but couldn’t afford to buy them at their modern prices, and have impressive quantities of weeds growing on their lawns. (I’ve also noticed that the nouveau riche don’t consider it worth their time to spend a few bucks on some weed killer to spray on the weeds that grow on their lots while their huge fancy homes are under consctruction.) Weeds, by their nature, tend to spread. So I go through cycles of “I can’t be bothered to deal with these things if my neighbors are too lazy to spend a pittance on weed killer,” and “my guests are going to have trouble getting out of the passenger sides of their cars if they park in front of my house, I guess I better do something about that.” There are now five garbage bags full of pulled weeds waiting for the garbage truck, along with the regular garbage bin being full as well. And oh, do my muscles ache...

I finished Oddworld III after coming in from weeding and collapsing; I was rather surprised to find it only has two “chapters”, given that the first two games were considerably longer.