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A good week
Aug. 28th, 2009 11:51 amDue to the vagaries of our holiday bookings at work, I've been having another week off - nothing now until February. :-(
Still, it meant I've missed some of the worst of Back to School and got to do fun stuff instead.
I've been trying to meet![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alitalf and Hibernia for a meal for months, and we finally decided that the solution was for me to stay overnight, thereby making the journey feasible by public transport. So I arrived for lunchtime, when we had a nice meal at a local pub by the canal, and got to play with computers, his and mine. (Compiz effects on Linux are very cool. ;-D)
pellegrina also joined us for dinner, and I'm afraid I demonstrated why it's never a good idea to put me near a computer in public - it's always far too fascinating to ignore. Still, it was lovely to see her, and I hope she didn't feel too neglected.
Home on Wednesday, another nice train journey - the advantage of travelling out of peak-time in the middle of the week is plenty of space to spread out (I had a carriage to myself between LB and Northampton).
Then Wednesday evening, I went round to seegayalondiel for Supernatural DVDs and admiring of kittens. They are still extremely cute and had no qualms about climbing over me, though I did get a bit concern at the fixed look one of them was giving my G & T - bad kitten, no alcohol. ;-)
I'm still playing with Linux - I'm currently very pleased with the open source version of Lemmings, a game that swallowed far too much of my life in the early '90s, but I'll write a proper post about that soon, which anyone not into computers can ignore.
Still, it meant I've missed some of the worst of Back to School and got to do fun stuff instead.
I've been trying to meet
alitalf and Hibernia for a meal for months, and we finally decided that the solution was for me to stay overnight, thereby making the journey feasible by public transport. So I arrived for lunchtime, when we had a nice meal at a local pub by the canal, and got to play with computers, his and mine. (Compiz effects on Linux are very cool. ;-D)pellegrina also joined us for dinner, and I'm afraid I demonstrated why it's never a good idea to put me near a computer in public - it's always far too fascinating to ignore. Still, it was lovely to see her, and I hope she didn't feel too neglected.Home on Wednesday, another nice train journey - the advantage of travelling out of peak-time in the middle of the week is plenty of space to spread out (I had a carriage to myself between LB and Northampton).
Then Wednesday evening, I went round to see
gayalondiel for Supernatural DVDs and admiring of kittens. They are still extremely cute and had no qualms about climbing over me, though I did get a bit concern at the fixed look one of them was giving my G & T - bad kitten, no alcohol. ;-)I'm still playing with Linux - I'm currently very pleased with the open source version of Lemmings, a game that swallowed far too much of my life in the early '90s, but I'll write a proper post about that soon, which anyone not into computers can ignore.
