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Games Played (3 + 4)
Mar. 29th, 2020 06:28 pmSunday afternoon and no motor racing. We played: Android Mainframe and The Staufer Dynasty.
Games Played (1 + 2)
Mar. 28th, 2020 09:13 pmWith a captive ?audience, I'm demanding board games every evening.
Yesterday, it was Endangered Orphans of Condyle Cove, which I hadn't played before. I love the Boogeyman statue....
Today Immortality, which I backed as a Kickstarter. I've played twice and (i) I need to check if there were updated rules and (ii) I then need to replay. There's a good idea in there, somewhere, but we didn't quite find it.
By the end of the lock-in, we might have a few unloved games to give away....
Yesterday, it was Endangered Orphans of Condyle Cove, which I hadn't played before. I love the Boogeyman statue....
Today Immortality, which I backed as a Kickstarter. I've played twice and (i) I need to check if there were updated rules and (ii) I then need to replay. There's a good idea in there, somewhere, but we didn't quite find it.
By the end of the lock-in, we might have a few unloved games to give away....
Good things in bad times
Mar. 22nd, 2020 04:23 pm Equal Exchange Chocolates Lemon Ginger with Black Pepper is perhaps the best dairy-free (and organic and fair trade) chocolate I think I've ever eaten.
Working at the dining table, with the smell of paint, noise from open windows, not conducive to progress. I rather think that anything I finish won't be needed for a while with the world in lockdown. Did do some background work for the training system.
Friday, my not-working day, was quieter with no more work. When the replastered wall gets painted and the shutters delivered--who knows? Wandered into town to buy bread and a top up of fruit and veg from the market. Don't want to see those folk go out of business. The daily market is one of our city's biggest assets.
As for peeps: M working slightly more successfully in the garden office. And doing DIY as there's no sport to watch. LL got another good grade, they did their ethics presentations (just after the limit on in-person teaching), and their group projects are over--early; no finishing off; no presentations; no dragons' den. She'll be home next week (M's taking the day off to drive her back so she doesn't have to face rail and tube). My aged P is fine, tho' I worry about how isolated he is and surrounded by other old folk in his village. MIL is doing fine--and her local community seems to have mutual support worked out. Both of them too far away for us to physically help out.
I have much gardening planned.
Friday, my not-working day, was quieter with no more work. When the replastered wall gets painted and the shutters delivered--who knows? Wandered into town to buy bread and a top up of fruit and veg from the market. Don't want to see those folk go out of business. The daily market is one of our city's biggest assets.
As for peeps: M working slightly more successfully in the garden office. And doing DIY as there's no sport to watch. LL got another good grade, they did their ethics presentations (just after the limit on in-person teaching), and their group projects are over--early; no finishing off; no presentations; no dragons' den. She'll be home next week (M's taking the day off to drive her back so she doesn't have to face rail and tube). My aged P is fine, tho' I worry about how isolated he is and surrounded by other old folk in his village. MIL is doing fine--and her local community seems to have mutual support worked out. Both of them too far away for us to physically help out.
I have much gardening planned.
Yesterday boils down to the following points.
Positive things*:
- ran some errands
- closed a Jira issue, progressed another
- watched and listened to some more e-learning info
Negative things:
- spent more time on this machine goofing off than on the work machine being constructive
- paint smell from decorator upstairs irritating
- noise of the workmen erasing road markings almost insupportable (I think repainting may be quieter)
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* I actually have a picture of Things 1 and 2 on the desktop of my work machine to remind me not to use them when working with our software in case they pop in screenshots.
Positive things*:
- ran some errands
- closed a Jira issue, progressed another
- watched and listened to some more e-learning info
Negative things:
- spent more time on this machine goofing off than on the work machine being constructive
- paint smell from decorator upstairs irritating
- noise of the workmen erasing road markings almost insupportable (I think repainting may be quieter)
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* I actually have a picture of Things 1 and 2 on the desktop of my work machine to remind me not to use them when working with our software in case they pop in screenshots.
#Keep Calm and Dreamwidth
Mar. 17th, 2020 10:18 am Or LiveJournal. Or Wordpress.
I've just started rereading A Journal of the Plague Year and it occurred to me that we have the "opportunity" to chronicle this pandemic in a way that couldn't have happened in the past.
And to keep in touch.
I've just started rereading A Journal of the Plague Year and it occurred to me that we have the "opportunity" to chronicle this pandemic in a way that couldn't have happened in the past.
And to keep in touch.
I'd always wondered about those scenes in disaster movies and dystopian TV series with the queues of abandoned cars backed up behind the site of an accident.
Well (and at this point I'm forced to say: here we go again!) at just gone seven this morning thee was a huge sound as of a crash from outside the front of the house. Yup, a truck has taken out the lights at the end of the bus lane and had come to a halt mere inches from our parked car. Eventually, police car, ambulance, tow-truck. The police have just finished picking up the bits. It'll be interesting to see when the lights are fixed.
I left home at just before eight to pop into the office to pick up my laptop and headset (yesterday we were planning our stress test the connectivity for Friday, but the situation has rather preemtped that) and just by the path onto the common, there was a pair of cars parked up, inspecting damage, exchanging phone numbers....
Not disasters, either of these, but maybe a sign of folks' lack of attention when worried and stressed. Mostly, the road outside is relatively empty.
This is, apparently, the way the world ends, not with a whimper but with the bang of low-speed vehicle collisions.
Well (and at this point I'm forced to say: here we go again!) at just gone seven this morning thee was a huge sound as of a crash from outside the front of the house. Yup, a truck has taken out the lights at the end of the bus lane and had come to a halt mere inches from our parked car. Eventually, police car, ambulance, tow-truck. The police have just finished picking up the bits. It'll be interesting to see when the lights are fixed.
I left home at just before eight to pop into the office to pick up my laptop and headset (yesterday we were planning our stress test the connectivity for Friday, but the situation has rather preemtped that) and just by the path onto the common, there was a pair of cars parked up, inspecting damage, exchanging phone numbers....
Not disasters, either of these, but maybe a sign of folks' lack of attention when worried and stressed. Mostly, the road outside is relatively empty.
This is, apparently, the way the world ends, not with a whimper but with the bang of low-speed vehicle collisions.
