The lesser mabinogion

gah…
One thing I can always guarantee, is that whenever I finally manage to save up a reasonable amount of money, my car will drain it all away for me.

I took it in for a service today, and also to fix the front door handle, which I’ve been living without for months (opening the rear door, and leaning over the seat to open the front). But as well as it being a major service, my power steering pretty much destroyed itself, more or less whilst I was in the process of dropping off the car. So as a result, by the end of the day, I’ll be $1000 worse off, and still won’t have my bloody door handle fixed, as including that would have pushed the price beyond what I could afford.

Not exactly what I had been hoping for, especially since I was hoping to book another NZ trip very soon….

It’s taken me all night, but I am finally up to date in my Slush Wrangling duties!
It really is rather easy to end up with quite a daunting pile of work if you don’t deal with it as quickly as possible. But at least from now it should be a little easier, as I finally got round to adding enough functionality to my slush-taming program so as to avoid having to do manual database queries all over the place.
I’m really not sure if this is something I’d want to do again – or at least not for a three month submission period. I rather enjoy reading all the stories, and I’m glad to be performing a useful task, but I must say I’m terrified of sending emails to the authors. I’m always afraid that I’ll send the wrong response to the wrong author, or phrase the email badly or something, or even if I don’t, that sooner or later I’ll be the target of messenger shooting after a rejection.
I guess I’ll just have to stick it out for now. If I do volunteer to do it again next year, then this time I’ll just have to make sure my slush tamer is advanced enough to let it manage itself ;)

what is it about me that makes me only really enjoy games that are played obsessively for hours (or days) at a time without even stopping for food?

It’s probably a very good thing I’ve never played any MMORPGs…

But anyway, my energy meter and my bladder meter are now both in the dark orange, so it’s time I dealt with both issues…

I’ve been playing with The Sims 2 tonight….
It seems that my Sim likes to spend her time painting in her underwear at 3 in the morning, whilst listening to heavy metal.
When she’s not pretending to be a pirate in the bath that is….heheh

hmmm, and it snowed on me today.
how rude.