Simming right along

For a while there, I was Sims-riffic, buying the latest expansion pack for "The Sims" shortly after it came out. I even installed "Sims 2," which was the equivalent of nuking my Sims-world, and starting over. But then we had that little Christmastime United Airlines fiasco when my laptop went to the great silicon-chip factory in the sky, and well, I still haven't replaced my laptop.

But if I do, I'll not only have to catch up with Sims University, I'll now have to decide if I want to try out Sims Nightlife. In Nightlife, you can get your Sims their own cars, which is less interesting to me than sending them to college, so we'll see.