Don’t want to bite Balance’s thread, so I’ll give this one a home of it’s own.
I just checked the mail and found a media mailer envelope. No return address, my address handwritten but with non-distinctive print. The postmark is from an area of South Jersey that I’m not really familiar with – I’m not aware of anyone I know living there, but someone from my past certainly could have moved there (that’ll become relevant).
I opened it, and inside is a CD-R. Nothing written on the CD itself, but the case has this slipped in it.
Now, I’m a tiny bit leery about sticking this thing in my laptop (not the smallest of reasons being that it’s not exactly mine – it’s company-issued). I’m reasonably sure it’s someone from my past who came across some old files or something, and thought I’d get a kick out of seeing them again. In the late-80’s/early-90’s, we were always forming an disbanding one “hacking group” or another, pretty much just looking to break copy protection on the latest Sierra game and pass 'em around on our ever-so K-Rad BBS’s.
So, I’m guessing it’s something like that. Still…ya never know. I’m sorely tempted to toss together a couple of the old “spare parts” computers I’ve got around and see if I can get one working one going before I see what this is…we’ll see.
Come on, be daring and just put it in the laptop while you hold down the Control key. It’ll be fine 
–FCOD
This stuff is killing me.
I didn’t get my mysterious parcel from UPS. $46 brokerage fees on it! Argh. They will deliver to my office tomorrow.
Forty-six friggin’ dollars. Grumble.
I never get mysterious parcels. I never get parcels. <pouts>
I get lots of parcels!
But they’re never mysterious, I know exactly what’s in them. After all, I ordered them.
I got a mysterious email the other day from someone who wants to give me money.
I gota mysterious check the other day. $48.71 with no explantion. Should I booking my holidays in Nigeria this year?
So, I said “hell with it” and put the disk in. Yeah, I was right – one of my old buddies.
I got a loader screen congratulating me on “overcoming fear and common sense” in putting the disk in, and then long tale about how he was laid up with a back injury and bored with all the newer games that are out. How he longed to play some of the old-school games we loved years ago. So, he rigged up an app to play a bunch of those games on newer systems, and was sending me the results, along with a crapload of old, extremely fun games (as well as apps of yore that I miss so badly – I was just messing with X-Tree! :))
Mystery solved.
Sounds neat! Any Oregon Trail or Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
Sierra had the best games. I’m so jealous.
