My original online name was Minerva and when I started playing the Douglas Adams computer game 'Starship Titanic' it got shortened to minnie and then, as a reflection of the song Lily the Pink it became minnie the pink. When I wanted to make my nationality clear I became minnie the pink Ozcat which has morphed into pinkozcat.
I decided to see if there was anything left of SST so I googled
minnie the pink + Starship Titanic and found a heap of posts from the forum. I also discovered that I can download the game for under $8 Australian and it works with Windows 10. I am tempted! I still have the book with all the hints which I collected after I became a Captain and stayed to help those who were still working through the game so I could probably play it again if the mood moved me.
I am re-knitting my pink possum sweater. I realised that I was knitting a size (or two) too big and luckily I had not progressed too far. It will now be about 5cm bigger than the Chunderup sweater which fits well but going down another size will make it a fraction tight and I do not want to undo it again and start again with smaller needles . I am in no hurry to finish it as the weather is finally warming up and the sweater may be too warm for this climate even in winter - but 'Have Yarn - Will Knit'.
I have had to turn on the 'happy juice' dispenser as the cats were scrapping BIGLY and Poppy was seriously fighting me when I needed to clip her claws. I know that she has sore feet and arthritis in the right hand but she is always much happier when the claws are short so they both have their nails clipped every three weeks which seems to be the optimum period between comfortably short and ripping up the leather couch.
I am making progress working back through my father's side of the family and am back to 1726 but still no word from a first cousin who is supposedly the family genealogist. I was hoping that she could give me information about my contemporary family but I might have to leave that to the next generation or hope that someone posts on ancestry.com. The problem there is that no details are published for people who are still alive and that is going to limit me possibly only to information about births; but I am not holding my breath.
Hey there! I just replayed sst and had a look around to see if any of the old forums were still around and found this page somehow. I used to post as rhiannon and we met up once in WA way back when. Hope you are well? Do you know what happened to anyone else from the old days? :-)
ReplyDeleteHi Rhiannon - blogspot has just notified me of your comment on my blog. I have, over time, been in contact with several of the SST people although not for a while. If you would email me at pinkozcat@gmail.com I could contact you on a less-public place and give you what I know. I have email addresses for several of them and may be we should all get together in cyberspace.
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