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This morning I found myself playing Railroad Tycoon II, a game in which you start a company and proceed to build rail stations, manage trains, buy and sell stock, and try to make a profit. Sounds easy enough, right? Well, you're also supposed to buy businesses, supply cities only with what they demand, take the goods created from this exercise to a place where they're demanded, avoid mergers, and connect Paris to Istanbul. It was around the sixth time my company was bought up by a German that I began to ask myself: Am I missing brain cells? I didn't think I was a very stupid person, and I play alot of video games that require a little bit of intelligence (Civilization III, Rise of Nations, Superpower) but I can't even grasp the concepts of this game. What's a "Short squeeze?" Or a "Margin Stock?" Or an "1846 Profitability?" And why would a person want to think that much while playing a video game? If you really need to think that bad, go memorize the Wikipedia. I don't even like trains. I just got it because it was on sale and it had "Tycoon" in the title. I like anything "Tycoon." I'm very power hungry. :) Nothing was on last night, so I'm just going to ramble. Last night I decided I'd try something new, music wise. My Napster playlist is getting old very fast, so I thought I'd look through the files for something unlike anything else I listed to. I came across Michael Buble, a Frank Sinatra clone that I've heard great things about. So I put his songs on. The following is a recreation of that horrific event. 5:45 - This is nice. It's very soft, very calming. This Buble person isn't that bad. 5:46 - Did they play the same song again? I hate it when they do that. Oh... it's not the same song again. It's a different song. Hmmm... 5:52 - (Yawn) 6:02 - These lyrics are incredibly sappy. I feel like I'm listening to a Lifetime movie. 6:12 - You know what this song needs? A guitar solo. Well, first a guitar, then a solo. My favorite guitar solo is the one at the end of "Hotel California." It's so melodic and smooth. Does Napster have any Eagles music? They do! Let's go listen to the Eagles. And that was the beginning and end of my Michael Buble experience. Today's FitB is a good one! I've come up with a FitB that is suited for the FitB, and couldn't be turned into a question easily. Yesterday I asked you to be mean, and today I'm going to ask you to be nice. Use the FitB to give complements to someone on TV.com. You can do it as many times as you like, as long as you don't post repeatedly. Wait until someone else posts, then come back as many times as you like. Just so long as there isn't a big stream of you. (That sounds like the title of a Michael Bolton song. "Big Stream of You." That would be awesome.) FitB: TV.com user _________ is ______________. Sorry about all the rambling. Have a great day. :) ETA: I'm naming my butterfly, specifically for the purpose of giving it the name I'm going to give it, because it just dawned on me how perfect this name would be for my butterfly. Navi If anybody can tell me what I've named my butterfly after, they get 10 points. ;)