Today

[andrewducker]

Was spent:

• Sleeping in until 11:00, which is the latest I've slept in a loooong time. Far too long in fact.


• Watching Giga Shark vs Stupidly Large Octopus. Which was stupid. Not quite as much fun as Snakes On A Plane, but still worth watching over the top of the laptop screen. Definitely not worth paying actual attention to.


• Putting together the remainder of the chairs and the table. Pics to follow once we've finished putting tidying up. It's lovely though. Even if we are going to need a bigger flat if we want to extend it as far as it can go.


• Eating takeout on the new table. Eeee! I feel somehow wrong to be excited about a sodding table, but (a) I've not owned a dining room table before, and it's one of those things I miss - eating at a table is quantitatively different to eating on a sofa. (b) it's the first item of furniture that Julie and I have bought together. Unless you count baths. Which I don't.


• Playing Super Mario Bros Wii with Julie. We're enjoying the multiplayer in this a lot. Doing a couple of levels together is now an evening tradition. I'm not sure what we're going to do when we run out of them...


• Playing a couple of levels of Manufactoria, which is a robot-programming puzzle game. Imagine single-player Robo Rally. As a coder I shouldn't enjoy this, as it's too much like work. Of course, I like my job, and it's work without having to worry about other coders, version control, build processes, unit tests, etc. Which is probably why it's fun.
  

This week I'm gaming on Thursday, seeing Iron Man 2 on Tuesday, putting together the bookshelves/desk on Monday, going to a Segway Rally on Saturday and babysitting on Sunday. I'm having Wednesday/Friday as quiet evenings, because I'll probably need them.

Comments

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

> eating at a table is quantitatively different to eating on a sofa

Yes! Congratulations!

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Manufactoria.

Arg. I am stuck on the one where you need to allow through three blues. The amount of looping needed to discard any interspersed reds seems insane. :/ I must be missing something obvious.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Ah yes I was. I hadn't realized you can turn the decision doodads...

[andrewducker]

Yup, you can turn everything :->

[simont]

it's work without having to worry about other coders, version control, build processes, unit tests, etc. Which is probably why it's fun.

I was going to say that this was expressing a related sentiment to an amusing comment I'd seen a couple of years ago that you'd probably enjoy.

But then I remembered where I saw that comment :-)

[andrewducker]

Hah!

[andrewducker]

How on earth did you track that one down?

[simont]

I keep a small file of quotations I found personally memorable, so that when I want to repeat them to other people I can remember who to credit. That particular comment was one I liked enough to put in that file at the time I saw it. I wouldn't expect to be able to track down any other entry in your LJ from several years ago, so don't worry too much :-)

[andrewducker]

Oh, not worried, just curious, because I don't think I'd be able to find that entry again :-) Well, if I remembered the quote then Google or ljarchive would do it.

[spacelem.livejournal.com]

I bought Super Mario Brothers Wii, and Jules leaves the room whenever I switch it on. She really hates video game music :(

[andrewducker]

It's been stuck in my head for weeks.

Luckily Julie has been a computer game fan since she was tiny :->

[meaningrequired.livejournal.com]

Quiet evenings?! HA!

[andrewducker]

Got something....noisy planned?