Well, I ended up convalesced over the weekend, so I really did very little of interest or value. I listened to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on my MP3 player (damn, that's a good book… I'd forgotten how good) and slept a lot. And my sweetie picked me up the latest Sims 2 expansion pack, which I played ad nauseum all weekend. This expansion added a bit in the way of objects, but tons on the way of game-play. It allows you to add excellent new interactions to sims who have worked their way up the entrepreneurial food chain. There's also some good new architectural stuff, including half-levels and elevators … They left the field wide-open allowing you to sell just about everything from cakes and pies (new foods you can make and store in your inventory) to the regular stuff you'd buy for your house (plants and alarm clocks). You can sell your paintings … robots you make … flower arrangements you make … toys you make. And you can have an admissions based lot where you charge an hourly fee to be there. Lots and lots of possibilities. It also seems to load more quickly for me than other expansions, especially community lots. If you're a simmer, you need to check it out.
making it up as i go along