On Tuesdays, Castle Age guild battle coin rewards are tripled. The reward collect window extends for 9 hours after the end of 5-hour battles, and most guilds draw out battle to maximize coins for all, so theoretically battles starting as early as (shortly after) 1PM U.S. Eastern time on Monday might be collected under the triple-collect banner. Some truly hardcore Castle Agers wake in the wee hours for the bonus coins. Normal players just respect their sleep needs and take the 1x collect. I confess I have tried to be hardcore at times, but that's behind me and I'm satisfied to get one supercollect during normal-people hours on Tuesdays. If I happen to get a second, plus triple festival battle rewards, then it's all icing.

The slow dance of farmed battle dovetails nicely with Gary's "Rock Labyrinth" internetsradio programme. Last night was the 1-year anniversary episode. While I listened to that, and between guild battle swats and duel skirmishes, I wrote out the letters I'd intended for so long to my niece and nephew.

In my refrigerator produce drawer I discovered 3 bottles of hard cider I'd forgotten about. I did not respect my body's nutrition needs well at all yesterday. My quads are still a bit sore from Sunday's run.

Lunch: half a subway dbl chx. Picked up a check, stuffed cards with printed letters into a joint envelope and slipped back out to the post office and bank.

Decommissioning \\wraith and recommissioning as... I don't even know yet, actually. Hard to know what to do with an archaic laptop with fritzed display and "only" 60G drive space free. I can RDC into it but it seems to run strangely slow (did I underclock this bad boy?) and XP will go out-of-lifecycle and unsupported in 7 months anyway.

[addendum Dec 2013: I think I did underclock it back at Waterways because of fan noise. Regardless, it's too slow for any practical application and end-of-support is what it is.]