Category: Holiday 2018
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Gen Con – The Games
In hindsight, going straight back to work the day after I got into the UK was what might be described as “A Mistake”.Kind of wiped me out on the blogging/summarising front, though it did lead to a hilarious situation when I edited the Big Red Couch episode we recorded that weekend, and had no memory…
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Con Crud
The so-called Con Crud, that low grade illness that so often happens after a convention, arrived early, I’m assuming because of time zone confusion. Or just a lot of air travel and airports. It seems to be, as it were, buggering off, but I’m still a bit wiped, and was getting an amount of “You…
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Trying to sum up the NZ portion of the trip, …
I’d intended to do my standard “blog all of the things until people are totally sick of the sound of your typing” thing for this trip, but as it turned out, I didn’t. Oddly, the reason wasn’t laziness, or at least wasn’t all laziness; I found it difficult to think of the Auckland & Wellington…
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Getting There
Nymphadora made sure to tell me, as I left this morning, how much she would miss me.And my ability to open food sachets. I actually got some work done, fixing some code I’d written, then documenting the damn thing while I still remembered what the requirements were.Also discovered that our version control system had decided…
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A Bit Of A Test-Pack
This holiday, because I’m doing a round-trip through NZ, gives me a chance to get some stuff from storage & bring it to the UK. More importantly, curated stuff; I’m sure it’d be possible to get everything moved, but that’s not much use until & unless there’s a place to move it to. All of which…
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Holiday 2018: The Voyage Home
Yes, I’ve already started planning. And what of it?! Gen Con is at the start of August next year, which means that for about three weeks of leave, I could be in NZ in time for π Approximation Day, spend about a week in-country, then go to Gen Con 51, then back to the UK.…