Danny Got me Shogun: Total War to play with during recovery with my back.. A nice game form the $10 rack at compusa. It's a lot of fun, and very easy on the laptop's resources. I also grabbed a copy of Age fo Mythology for myself, at $25, It was well worth it to finally get it. I'm sure that between the two of them, I'll have plenty to distract me. I'm very fond of the Cyclops units so far, because they look like Ray Harryhausen's design, and pick up one enemy unit, and use it as a weapon against another. The Kraken is also a fun foe, but I've not had an opportunity to use them as my own units. Hooray for Posieden!

I really want to see more mythologies in the next expanion.. Kali and that Crew would be fun to pit against Thor, Zeus, and Isis. I expect that I'll pick up the titans expansion in the near future.

Age of Mythology cheats

While playing a game, press [Enter] and type one of following case-sensitive codes to activate the corresponding cheat function:

RESULT	CHEAT CODE
1000 Food	JUNK FOOD NIGHT
1000 Gold	ATM OF EREBUS
1000 Wood	TROJAN HORSE FOR SALE
Chicken meteor god power	BAWK BAWK BOOM
Enable used god power	DIVINE INTERVENTION
Fast construction	L33T SUPA H4X0R
Flying purple hippo	WUV WOO
Forkboy	TINES OF POWER
Full map	LAY OF THE LAND
Hide map	UNCERTAINTY AND DOUBT
Laser bear	O CANADA
Lightning storm, earthquake, meteor, tornado	WRATH OF THE GODS
Lots of monkeys	I WANT TEH MONKEYS!!!!!
Maximum Favor	MOUNT OLYMPUS
New random god powers	PANDORAS BOX
Night	IN DARKEST NIGHT
Red water	RED TIDE
Reveal all animals on map	SET ASCENDANT
Slow down units	CONSIDER THE INTERNET
Small hero campaign army	ISIS HEAR MY PLEA
Turn enemies into goats	GOATUNHEIM
Units can move over water	CHANNEL SURFING
Walking berry bushes god power	FEAR THE FORAGE
Win scenario	THRILL OF VICTORY
Unknown	MR. MONDAY
Unknown	LETS GO! NOW!
Unknown	ENGINEERED GRAIN

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Nifty Volcano photos (Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii)

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Weirdo cone-thing - What is it?

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Anonymous screening killed the first bit of LJ-spam I've recieved, about getting drug kits. I'm not sure why they posted it in an entry from September 22... Actually, I suspect that it's an attempt to get a ride on my blog hits, but since it's screened, it won't get spidered. Bah on them! They floated in from IP 204.60.53.75, and the spam looked to be specifically LJ oriented, as it filled in the subject line, and had a hyperlink in the body field. the text of the message was basically -

Subject: magic mushroom kits
here's a great place to buy Magic Mushroom Kits

Ah well, this is the first instance of needing the screen since that bot posted 300-some entries about 6 months ago.