No good deed goes unpunished...

... and I am punished frightfully for something I did this morning: I installed a copy of Kyodai mahjongg on my mother's newly revived computer so she'll have something else to play than just Solitaire and Free Cell while practising with the spiny ball under her foot to loosen her bad knee. I suggeested that to her, so I felt responsible for her entertainment during the excercise...

Since then she has been playing and playing, all the while frobbing that spiny ball under her sole; she even missedd the news, normally almost sacred with my parents.

I will never ever give my mother another game to play, I swear!

The problem's not the addiction, that will be over in a few days - the problem is that my mother and her computer use the desk in my former room, where my own little foldup computer has found its temporary abode and where I sleep as well. She sits in my room, and she won't go away - so I can neither do nefarious things online nor go to sleep.

I am sure you can hear me wail right from where you are...

Twenty-four hours later...

... and my mother is still sitting beside me, oblivious to the world, playing Kyodai mahjongg. She's hooked, poor thing.

Well, to be honest, she did do many other things in between as well. It's not as if she'd stayed here and played all the intervening hours. But she doesn't even balk at my loud rude music, she's so totally absorbed.

On another note, the little lady, Phia, just declared she for her part definitely wasn't going to start a war. Well, if that's to be so, there's some hope for the future at least.-

Additionally, we're going to go away to Berlin for a few days tomorrow, so I might not be updating until the New Year. On the other hand, there are computers there, even if I leave my little foldup computer here in Wiesbaden, so I probably might update after all.