the heat is on
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thedarkprojectIt's 27°C in my room, and about the same outside. Finally, proper summer weather! Unfortunately, it's arriving just as I'm about to leave the country for a week, and specifically today when I needed to go and do a lot of shopping. I'm going to the Wacken festival on Tuesday, which is in Germany and requires preparation, which I am ill-equipped for as I'm not much of the travelling type. Last time I went abroad was just over 5 years ago to the Graspop festival in Belgium, and my then-girlfriend did most of the organisation that time. So everything is likely to go wrong this time.
Anyway, having exhausted the local shops, I had to go to the next city over for some stuff. Derby is a very pleasant-looking city, and now that I no longer work there, I can go there to do some shopping without the feeling of dread that comes with being trapped somewhere for 9 tedious hours every weekday. One bad thing about Derby is that it's a lot more religious than Nottingham. I've never been there on a Saturday when there wasn't some sort of loud preacher on the main street. This time though, it was a FREESTYLE RAP PREACHER, which makes it... actually no, it's no better at all. I also got lost in the new extension to the shopping centre which makes it a thousand times bigger than it used to be, though I'm glad they kept the underpass that leads into it. I was annoyed when Nottingham blocked up all its underpasses; quite a backwards move if you ask me.
Work's progressing as usual. We got the first set of feedback from beta users, and most of the criticisms are things a few of us have been pointing out for months. Hopefully some time will be budgeted for fixing them now. I've been working on fixing some frustrating network code, written in what appears to be some ancient Sumerian dialect of C++ with no regard for proper software engineering practices. I also borrowed a book which shows that one of our very complex, intricate, and difficult-to-use base libraries can be implemented in about 2 pages of Python script. *sigh*
What else? I've been writing music, slowly as usual, but it's really good so that's ok. I've also been playing Football Manager 2005 quite compulsively, partly because it's one of the few games you can play while chatting on MSN and checking email. I'd rather be outside playing real football, but that's not practical when you have no friends. ;)
Anyway, having exhausted the local shops, I had to go to the next city over for some stuff. Derby is a very pleasant-looking city, and now that I no longer work there, I can go there to do some shopping without the feeling of dread that comes with being trapped somewhere for 9 tedious hours every weekday. One bad thing about Derby is that it's a lot more religious than Nottingham. I've never been there on a Saturday when there wasn't some sort of loud preacher on the main street. This time though, it was a FREESTYLE RAP PREACHER, which makes it... actually no, it's no better at all. I also got lost in the new extension to the shopping centre which makes it a thousand times bigger than it used to be, though I'm glad they kept the underpass that leads into it. I was annoyed when Nottingham blocked up all its underpasses; quite a backwards move if you ask me.
Work's progressing as usual. We got the first set of feedback from beta users, and most of the criticisms are things a few of us have been pointing out for months. Hopefully some time will be budgeted for fixing them now. I've been working on fixing some frustrating network code, written in what appears to be some ancient Sumerian dialect of C++ with no regard for proper software engineering practices. I also borrowed a book which shows that one of our very complex, intricate, and difficult-to-use base libraries can be implemented in about 2 pages of Python script. *sigh*
What else? I've been writing music, slowly as usual, but it's really good so that's ok. I've also been playing Football Manager 2005 quite compulsively, partly because it's one of the few games you can play while chatting on MSN and checking email. I'd rather be outside playing real football, but that's not practical when you have no friends. ;)
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Date: 2008-07-26 04:47 pm (UTC)There are enough trees in the campsite.
But one important thing is don't set up your camp too close to the toilets
Sucks that I'll be missing it this year.
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Date: 2008-07-26 07:09 pm (UTC)Come off it. That's part of the atmosphere!
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Date: 2008-07-26 06:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-29 06:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-05 09:17 am (UTC)