Letters from Sanford Street # 449

I was able to get full overtime this week, which was kind of nice. I could have done that last week too, but I took vacation and paid time off for my exam, but with the way things went, I may as well have just worked and turned in what I turned in anyway.

I slept nearly the entire six days that I was off.

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I've been playing Empire: Total War, and I'm about to conquer the known world, but not because I wanted to, but because other countries declare war on me out of nowhere, and I have to beat the shit out of them to negotiate a peace treaty.

There are only 3 major countries left, and I think I'll just keep playing, and see If I can isolate each one into a single land-locked region. 

I'm playing as Spain. I usually play as the Netherlands, but there are a few trade offs that make Spain an attractive alternative.

One is that the Capitol Region has more ports for Spain than the Netherlands, so thr maximum trading capacity is higher. It doesn't entirely matter early in the game.

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I keep reading about supply shortages. It's usually attributed to supply chain issues, but I usually joke that it's the Russians.

I have been ordering Stolichnaya whenever I'm at the bar, but I don't really drink a ton. I guess that's a good thing, that I don't drink too much.

There is this group of people called Preppers, people who prepare for a total breakdown of civilization. Some people have, like, a decade of canned food.

Canned food is actually somewhat expensive when you consider what you're getting, and most packaged food has kind of a long shelf-life anyway.