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Not to get Sims 2, I already have that, but to play Sim City in offline mode.
But here's the thing: Origin is foreverf telling me that it is going offline now. Whatever I am doing. I have gone in and tinkered with the settings to tell it not to go online unless i tell it to but it does this anyway. A couple of times it barged into my (non-Origin) Sims 2 game to tell me that I appeared to be trying to play on two computers at once and I couldn't do that so it was going offline now. That was annoying because whenever the game is minimized it takes a while to get back up again. And yet the sims go on doing whatever while I can't see them or control them, with sometimes hilarious results.
The reason I bring this up is that I have been intermittently trying to search out hos to get i to stop doing this and I can't find the question online, let alone the answer. Nobody ever seems to want to know how to stop Origin from going online when they don't need it to be up. They only complain, apparently quite frequently and at length, that Origin won't go online when they want it to.
SIgh. I do seem to have my own special problems.
On the other hand, I seem to no longer have any trace of sciatica. And also! Phase 1 of North Window Reclamation Project is nearly done -- I have an eat-facing window in the downstairs bedroom (the one I am living in now). There's a couple more dribs and drabs to do to it, but it's inthere and it opens and closes, thus affording that room with Light and Air!
The other phases involve replacing the north-facing window in that room, and the north and west facing windows in the living room, with brand new windows that open and close and have insulating glass. They will be vinyl, because fiberglass and wood are so much more expensive, but it turns out you can so paint vinyl window sashes, you just have to use special paint.
Just because I can, I'm making the east-facing window a bit of a narrow box window, providing the room with a wee bit more light and an awesome wide windowsill for a plant or two.
And the third thing: Truffle has taught herself not to rush into the yard when nighttime vermin thugs approach the house. She just runs into the back room and stands right inside her dog door barking and huffing. I reward this behavior, but truth be told, I didn't teach it to her. I tried when she was younger but she just started actually doing it on her own. Whoi says an old dog won't learn a new trick? They can if they want to.
Trujffle's going to be thirteen in November, hard as that is to believe.
But here's the thing: Origin is foreverf telling me that it is going offline now. Whatever I am doing. I have gone in and tinkered with the settings to tell it not to go online unless i tell it to but it does this anyway. A couple of times it barged into my (non-Origin) Sims 2 game to tell me that I appeared to be trying to play on two computers at once and I couldn't do that so it was going offline now. That was annoying because whenever the game is minimized it takes a while to get back up again. And yet the sims go on doing whatever while I can't see them or control them, with sometimes hilarious results.
The reason I bring this up is that I have been intermittently trying to search out hos to get i to stop doing this and I can't find the question online, let alone the answer. Nobody ever seems to want to know how to stop Origin from going online when they don't need it to be up. They only complain, apparently quite frequently and at length, that Origin won't go online when they want it to.
SIgh. I do seem to have my own special problems.
On the other hand, I seem to no longer have any trace of sciatica. And also! Phase 1 of North Window Reclamation Project is nearly done -- I have an eat-facing window in the downstairs bedroom (the one I am living in now). There's a couple more dribs and drabs to do to it, but it's inthere and it opens and closes, thus affording that room with Light and Air!
The other phases involve replacing the north-facing window in that room, and the north and west facing windows in the living room, with brand new windows that open and close and have insulating glass. They will be vinyl, because fiberglass and wood are so much more expensive, but it turns out you can so paint vinyl window sashes, you just have to use special paint.
Just because I can, I'm making the east-facing window a bit of a narrow box window, providing the room with a wee bit more light and an awesome wide windowsill for a plant or two.
And the third thing: Truffle has taught herself not to rush into the yard when nighttime vermin thugs approach the house. She just runs into the back room and stands right inside her dog door barking and huffing. I reward this behavior, but truth be told, I didn't teach it to her. I tried when she was younger but she just started actually doing it on her own. Whoi says an old dog won't learn a new trick? They can if they want to.
Trujffle's going to be thirteen in November, hard as that is to believe.