One of the things things about games on Steam...that you can mod games on Steam. :3 So far I've only modded four games (one of them technically using non-workshop mods) but the one I've modded the most is Civilization V. Yeah the based game (and DLCs) has lots to choose from but meh, some areas of the world are underrepresented so thanks to mods, I've probably doubled the amount of civs I have open to play so...I can play as Tanzania, Rwanda, Australia, Mexico, modern day Russia, the CSA (though instead of stupid brony civs...where's Jake Featherson's CSA from Harry Turtledove's Southern Victory series?), FDR's America and even as everyone's most hated tyrant the Bavarian with the funny mustache. :P But more than just more cives, I've found mods that add much, much more to the information age, add the Enlightenment and even the prehistoric era...and more hexes to play with. :P And the nice thing...my mechanized infantry can carry the Zweihander promotion from being two-handed swordsmen to off pesky pikemen, Landskecht and Tercio units.

On the other hand, the weather hasn't been as fun as modding Civ V. Thankfully I was one hour away from 18" snow and only got about 5" snow and a bit or sleet. A relief but the sleet made the snow as hard as rock to shovel out. And when one has at least 300' of driveway in the woods you realized you should have shoveled on Sunday. XP But of course the weather warmed up and all the snow is now mush. Makes me wish I had a car that was higher off the ground, four-wheel drive or even snow tires.

Work has been a bit crazy though - our plant got a new operations manager and as he arrived in Virginia we had all the VIPs show up at our plant, including my boss. :P Our ops manager is a nice guy and all but with all the folks visiting meetings just eat up all your time, especially when one is doing a plant trial that is running for 7 weeks. Makes weekends much more fun since I have more to unwind from - now I just gotta figure out when to get my dog a haircut.

On a sadder note though, we lost the real Kylo Ren (I mean Severus Snape), David Bowie, Glenn Frey (one of the founding members of The Eagles and also did "You Belong in the City"), and the voice of Disney's Robin Hood Brian Bedford. The last one of the list kinda hit me big time as the vulpine adaptation of the English rogue has a very special place in my heart. I cried a bit when I found out - oddly enough though since Alan Rickman passed on about the same time Bedford's passing happened so it was pretty much not covered. >.>

I have some more to gab about, but that will be a post for another day.

- Charlie