I took a long, painful, three month break owing to some personal troubles, moving, getting new job. First thing I did at new place was took 2 hours to assemble my desk, 1/2 hour to get the computer booted up, then sat down and won my first civ3 diplomatic victory ever as India (PTW cd was still in a box somewhere).
Should have net service restored at end of month, hoping then to terminate the somewhat repetitive life with the AI and either finish one of three decent scenario ideas, or get back into MP - where I was the first to start a game, but have never seen MP past the 30th turn.
R.III