picked up the laptop today (sent to wrong address) its still fcked. Don't buy a sony Vaio. They are great, but the customer service is a joke.

Got some work done on Democracy. I have the GUI working right now, looking good, and I started work on this 'inbox' system for presenting events and advice to the player. I have a basic system sending generic emails when events start and end, and dsplaying them to the player, but much work is needed to translate this into helpfull data and GUI dialogs to show this information.
I still think I'm on schedule to finish this game by Christmas though ;)