Still Coping With Being Bitten by The Sim Bug....

I just got home two to three hours ago from staying at Cassie's house for most of today. As promised, I took a look at her computer to see if Sims 3 would run on it. Well, this is one case that I couldn't do anything about it. As it turns out, her computer's video card isn't fit to run a graphic rich game like the Sims 3. I should have brought with me my copy of Sims 2 and see if it could at least run that instead, but I didn't. Anyway, I gave her a list of affordable video cards that she might end up buying for her computer upgrade, because I think she's already bitten by the "Sim Bug" ! (It's all thanks to me, she says! You're welcome, Cassie! LOL!)

We tried the game on Cassie's Dad's computer and it worked fine! (She actually drove to her parents' house 3 blocks away from her house just to borrow her dad's laptop!) I let her play the rest of the afternoon while I took a bit of a snooze myself... yep, a two-hour or more nap for me since I know I'm off limits to the game anyway!

Since I never got the chance to play with my new sim, Maxine Richards, there's nothing to update on her except for some left over captures from the last time I played with her.

(Click for bigger versions of the pics.)

Here's an overview of Max's house. Simple, huh?
Hopefully, I'll be able to add more furniture and replace the others
with better ones as soon as Max earns more money.

$68 isn't bad for her first exposure playing at one of the parks around Riverview.

She works hard for her money! Maxine's salary from her regular job as a Talent Manager
isn't that much as of now, so she has to play for tips now? Well, not really, sure, her monthly pay as a musician is kind of low, but it isn't as bad as it looks! (LOL) There was one icon on her
Daily Wants/Wishes Panel that had a picture of a park bench with a guitar and dollar signs in the background, which simply means she wanted to earn Tips while playing her guitar in the park. (This was actually very productive for her in the sense that she can earn extra money while practicing or honing her guitar skills. The gauge on the top of her head ( just barely seen on the picture above tells how she's doing progress on her playing.)

Here's the bigger scene of the cropped picture above. While Max was busy with her playing, she didn't even notice her boss, Jon Lessen (the guy sitting on the bench, reading a book.) was there until later. This was actually the first time they met outside of work. I wonder if Jon had been listening to her guitar playing while reading his book. (Max has a crush on her boss! This happened with Celestyne too, but unlike Celestyne's boss, Jon Lessen appears to be single and so available.

After a long day at the park, Max invited, Jon for an early evening night cap.

(Max really has IT bad for Jon. Why does this picture look like she's serenading Jon???!!!
AHHHHH.... Women nowadays are just so liberated! Whatever happened to men serenading women huh?!)