Journaly Things: My Week
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lyornThis week had a public holiday on Thursday, which is always good.
Other than that...
Work is dragging along. There are a bunch of very old and very complex processes, which are described in general but leave a lot of questions open about "best practise" and recent updates on the system, so I need to bother one of my co-workers a lot and have twice lost contact with the main workflow document. However, I suspect that the complexity is unavoidable. Still vast improvement over last year.
Role Playing Games: Monday evening caught me kind of unprepared. The group is now traveling to a Dwarven city (one of the character is the niece of the king and with recent political troubles in a closely allied neighbouring human kingdom, her family needs to know what to expect of her, and the GM has to give out a heap of info, some cryptic seer's words, and the hook for the next adventure. The rest of the group wants to have five years worth of loot evaluated, and the barbarian wants to convert to the Dwarven religion. I really needed to talk all this through with the player beforehand, but I just forgot. We'll have that planning session and info dump tomorrow.
As it was, I was only narrating the journey, and visiting the upper town of the Dwarven City, which was quite fun, too.
Music: The last two weeks were school holidays, so no choir practise. (There are a lot of school holidays here. Six in the year. Where I went to school, we had four.) Last Wednesday we did an ensemble practise, though. I was in a bad mood because it meant a lot of driving around, and I was dead tired, but I think I managed to behave. We finally solved that horrible 2nd Soprano lead bit in an a-capella version of Sting's "Fragile", where one alto and two second sopranos haven't, in half a year of practise, managed to merge well on the high and rhythmically complicated first stanza. It's not good, but there's some hope now that it won't be a total mess which even the audience will notice. The other pieces ("Freedom" from the Blues Brothers, and two very recent pieces on Wilhelm Bush lyrics) are coming along OK.
Movie: Wonder Woman: Thursday evening, flederkatz and I went to watch "Wonder Woman" in the original-language cinema. We go there several times a year, by car, and have done so for about 25 years. This time I lost the way driving there... three times. I have rarely, if ever, driven there in daylight, and surely not with all the recent construction going on! And my instinct for direction and most navigation systems do not work well together.
That specific cinema is old on purpose, so no Dolby, no TRX, no 3D (yeah!). You can get ice cream, popcorn, soda and coffee for reasonable prices, and there is only one till, usually (wo)manned by someone who does not speak German. I like it.
There is also not much advertising before the movie starts, so we were a bit late, with all that getting lostin my own museum on a familiar road. Didn't hurt, though.
I enjoyed the movie, though there was something, I don't know, kind of lacking, I do not know what is was. Maybe I'll think of it. I would have liked Diane to be (even more?) proactive, she had a bunch of "hanger-on" moments, and of course, it's the usual dynamic, a bunch of weirdoes and a girl, gah. (Loved the secretary.) I liked the WWI-setting in general, though it made me squirm. History: It's always more complicated. Maybe I should stay away from Superhero movies if I want complexity, but OTOH realism depresses me and I want eye candy. I saw the Dragon/Big Bad structure coming, and liked the resounding silence of nothing significant happening after the Dragon had been taken care off.
We didn't get lost on the way home, when it was properly dark.
Cat troubles: Some months ago, flederkatz and her boyfriend got two slightly raggle-taggle, shy, fluffy Siamese/Thai/Birman-something cats with seal point fur and electric blue eyes. They are very sweet, gentle, talkative and cuddly. Friday night the male got (we suspect) blown off the outer window ledge by a gust of wind from a high 3rd floor window. He must have landed on an awning, bounced, and fell to street level, where he sensibly found a hiding place and did not show a whisker the whole day, while flederkatz and her boyfriend were getting more frantic by the minute. They found him in the late afternoon, about one block from their place, scruffy, bloody, and with a sprained leg.
He seems to be recovering well. But, the horror of losing a cat, even for a few hours... I'm so glad that I have all windows cat-proofed.
The weekend: Saturday, I did not do much. Went shopping, tidied the flat, slept a bit more, read. Finished O'Brian's "The Far Side of the World". Sunday, the gang met for indoor bouldering again at half past ten. I managed to be nearly on time and do about 1 hour of climbing. Not too bad, even though I did only the very easy routes and finished only 1/3 of them. This evening, I cooked spaghetti with dried tomatoes, green olives, anchovies, balsamic vinegar, garlic, fresh sage and old parmesan. Came out well, especially after a week of (mostly) curd cheese muesli and salads.
And that was it, more or less. Quite a normal week, really. Execpt with one day off.
Other than that...
Work is dragging along. There are a bunch of very old and very complex processes, which are described in general but leave a lot of questions open about "best practise" and recent updates on the system, so I need to bother one of my co-workers a lot and have twice lost contact with the main workflow document. However, I suspect that the complexity is unavoidable. Still vast improvement over last year.
Role Playing Games: Monday evening caught me kind of unprepared. The group is now traveling to a Dwarven city (one of the character is the niece of the king and with recent political troubles in a closely allied neighbouring human kingdom, her family needs to know what to expect of her, and the GM has to give out a heap of info, some cryptic seer's words, and the hook for the next adventure. The rest of the group wants to have five years worth of loot evaluated, and the barbarian wants to convert to the Dwarven religion. I really needed to talk all this through with the player beforehand, but I just forgot. We'll have that planning session and info dump tomorrow.
As it was, I was only narrating the journey, and visiting the upper town of the Dwarven City, which was quite fun, too.
Music: The last two weeks were school holidays, so no choir practise. (There are a lot of school holidays here. Six in the year. Where I went to school, we had four.) Last Wednesday we did an ensemble practise, though. I was in a bad mood because it meant a lot of driving around, and I was dead tired, but I think I managed to behave. We finally solved that horrible 2nd Soprano lead bit in an a-capella version of Sting's "Fragile", where one alto and two second sopranos haven't, in half a year of practise, managed to merge well on the high and rhythmically complicated first stanza. It's not good, but there's some hope now that it won't be a total mess which even the audience will notice. The other pieces ("Freedom" from the Blues Brothers, and two very recent pieces on Wilhelm Bush lyrics) are coming along OK.
Movie: Wonder Woman: Thursday evening, flederkatz and I went to watch "Wonder Woman" in the original-language cinema. We go there several times a year, by car, and have done so for about 25 years. This time I lost the way driving there... three times. I have rarely, if ever, driven there in daylight, and surely not with all the recent construction going on! And my instinct for direction and most navigation systems do not work well together.
That specific cinema is old on purpose, so no Dolby, no TRX, no 3D (yeah!). You can get ice cream, popcorn, soda and coffee for reasonable prices, and there is only one till, usually (wo)manned by someone who does not speak German. I like it.
There is also not much advertising before the movie starts, so we were a bit late, with all that getting lost
I enjoyed the movie, though there was something, I don't know, kind of lacking, I do not know what is was. Maybe I'll think of it. I would have liked Diane to be (even more?) proactive, she had a bunch of "hanger-on" moments, and of course, it's the usual dynamic, a bunch of weirdoes and a girl, gah. (Loved the secretary.) I liked the WWI-setting in general, though it made me squirm. History: It's always more complicated. Maybe I should stay away from Superhero movies if I want complexity, but OTOH realism depresses me and I want eye candy. I saw the Dragon/Big Bad structure coming, and liked the resounding silence of nothing significant happening after the Dragon had been taken care off.
We didn't get lost on the way home, when it was properly dark.
Cat troubles: Some months ago, flederkatz and her boyfriend got two slightly raggle-taggle, shy, fluffy Siamese/Thai/Birman-something cats with seal point fur and electric blue eyes. They are very sweet, gentle, talkative and cuddly. Friday night the male got (we suspect) blown off the outer window ledge by a gust of wind from a high 3rd floor window. He must have landed on an awning, bounced, and fell to street level, where he sensibly found a hiding place and did not show a whisker the whole day, while flederkatz and her boyfriend were getting more frantic by the minute. They found him in the late afternoon, about one block from their place, scruffy, bloody, and with a sprained leg.
He seems to be recovering well. But, the horror of losing a cat, even for a few hours... I'm so glad that I have all windows cat-proofed.
The weekend: Saturday, I did not do much. Went shopping, tidied the flat, slept a bit more, read. Finished O'Brian's "The Far Side of the World". Sunday, the gang met for indoor bouldering again at half past ten. I managed to be nearly on time and do about 1 hour of climbing. Not too bad, even though I did only the very easy routes and finished only 1/3 of them. This evening, I cooked spaghetti with dried tomatoes, green olives, anchovies, balsamic vinegar, garlic, fresh sage and old parmesan. Came out well, especially after a week of (mostly) curd cheese muesli and salads.
And that was it, more or less. Quite a normal week, really. Execpt with one day off.
