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Week/end recap
Jun. 24th, 2013 07:21 pmI came to the end of last week feeling pretty good, despite the not entirely pleasant weather and morale-draining events at the Hall. Pretty sure I managed to get some things done on top of an amount of work I was happy with and a significant implementation which seemed to be running smoothly by the weekend*. Can't remember much about gaming except for the usual amount of people being indecisive about games and waiting for other games to finish. There was some Settlers of Cataan, some Thurn und Taxis, some Seven Wonders, .... must have been something else.
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Saturday was mostly spent at the Hall while Civil Defence put some Urban Search and Rescue dogs through training exercises. There were about 8 dogs and a few less handlers, plus 3 "trapped" people for the first exercise. The dogs ranged from experienced through to 6-months-old-not-quite-in-the-training-program-yet. They were universally EXCITED by the whole thing, which I understand is thier default state.
Later B and I managed to clear a blocked drain which has practically eliminated the flooding around the back.
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That did all leave me tired and cold - although I managed a bit of a nap it was a real struggle to get myself up and to the KAOS Black Rose Ball. Once I got there though I somehow discovered an everburning-spoon and although I still didn't interact with people much I did manage to take some pretty decent photos.
It was the first of these I have attended and there has been a bit of a hiatus so I have no idea how the event stacked up against past years, but it was pretty good. Biggest complaint was that it needed the noise to be kept down a bit later in the evening though, or a second, quiet room for people who valued their hearing and conversation to retreat to. Anyway the photos are in the preceding post so I needn't say any more about that.
Got home about 1am - second late night in a row after attending a farewell drinkies on Friday night. Was blissfully grateful not to have -anything- I needed to get out of bed for or anywhere I -had- to be on Sunday and lay-in until nearly midday. Then went to a garage sale, spent frivolously, spent a couple of hours cleaning up water at the Hall -despite- it being my "day off" (and in the dictionary under "to little, too late"), went back to the garage sale and spent even more frivolously.
(Loot:
- stack of ShadowRun 3rd supplements to pillage for ideas
- a pretty green dragon ... it's been so long (years) since I bought a new dragon for my collection
- some old MtG cards including Unglued ... hehehehe. OK so I don't play these days - haven't since before most of these cards were printed - but the art is still good for inspiration.)
Was somehow still running on a motivation and energy high so I spent the evening processing Ball photos. Didn't expect to get them done, but somehow everything came together. Went to bed feeling quite happy and under no pressure whatsoever for the week to come, but with the nagging feeling that this current energy/mood boost is just like some sort of illusion or balloon, and could pop at any moment.
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* today I've spent much of dealing with the fact that circumstances outside our (company I work for) control and which we was assured had been taken care of have resulted in the implementation failing in some very-important-to-the-client ways. Although we are working as best we can to resolve the situation - and it should be resolved by tomorrow morning - the client is starting to get snappy and that is stress I don't need.
Also today some people are trying to reschedule how they use the hall this weekend - and I'm other people want to use it this weekend at short notice - and I'm out of town which means having to try and find other people / mess around the people who had volunteered to cover. or at least refrain from sending a very snappy refusal myself.
~~~
Saturday was mostly spent at the Hall while Civil Defence put some Urban Search and Rescue dogs through training exercises. There were about 8 dogs and a few less handlers, plus 3 "trapped" people for the first exercise. The dogs ranged from experienced through to 6-months-old-not-quite-in-the-training-program-yet. They were universally EXCITED by the whole thing, which I understand is thier default state.
Later B and I managed to clear a blocked drain which has practically eliminated the flooding around the back.
~~~
That did all leave me tired and cold - although I managed a bit of a nap it was a real struggle to get myself up and to the KAOS Black Rose Ball. Once I got there though I somehow discovered an everburning-spoon and although I still didn't interact with people much I did manage to take some pretty decent photos.
It was the first of these I have attended and there has been a bit of a hiatus so I have no idea how the event stacked up against past years, but it was pretty good. Biggest complaint was that it needed the noise to be kept down a bit later in the evening though, or a second, quiet room for people who valued their hearing and conversation to retreat to. Anyway the photos are in the preceding post so I needn't say any more about that.
Got home about 1am - second late night in a row after attending a farewell drinkies on Friday night. Was blissfully grateful not to have -anything- I needed to get out of bed for or anywhere I -had- to be on Sunday and lay-in until nearly midday. Then went to a garage sale, spent frivolously, spent a couple of hours cleaning up water at the Hall -despite- it being my "day off" (and in the dictionary under "to little, too late"), went back to the garage sale and spent even more frivolously.
(Loot:
- stack of ShadowRun 3rd supplements to pillage for ideas
- a pretty green dragon ... it's been so long (years) since I bought a new dragon for my collection
- some old MtG cards including Unglued ... hehehehe. OK so I don't play these days - haven't since before most of these cards were printed - but the art is still good for inspiration.)
Was somehow still running on a motivation and energy high so I spent the evening processing Ball photos. Didn't expect to get them done, but somehow everything came together. Went to bed feeling quite happy and under no pressure whatsoever for the week to come, but with the nagging feeling that this current energy/mood boost is just like some sort of illusion or balloon, and could pop at any moment.
~~~
* today I've spent much of dealing with the fact that circumstances outside our (company I work for) control and which we was assured had been taken care of have resulted in the implementation failing in some very-important-to-the-client ways. Although we are working as best we can to resolve the situation - and it should be resolved by tomorrow morning - the client is starting to get snappy and that is stress I don't need.
Also today some people are trying to reschedule how they use the hall this weekend - and I'm other people want to use it this weekend at short notice - and I'm out of town which means having to try and find other people / mess around the people who had volunteered to cover. or at least refrain from sending a very snappy refusal myself.
