same_difference | Dec. 18th, 2011

So many many many things to write about, so um go go gadget bullet points!

Off to Disneyland Paris tomorrow afternoon and back Thursday evening. angelphie will be out tour guide (as well as having largely organised the trip). No looking forward to the travelling (but I never do), though the flight should be fun, but am quite looking forward to this holiday.

Work continues, I need to get more organised with my CV. My appraisal pretty much can be summed up as "Did great, customers extremely happy, didn't tick the boxes for the pay rise." So hopefully updated CV will be achieved after Christmas. I'm finished on the current project so will have to see what the New Year brings, but considering I've finished on my last project 3 times, it might be back to what I was doing before. Summary: enterprise applications aren't fun.

Larping again. Managed 5 weeks in a row! Going to the last 36 hour reminded me how much I actually enjoy larp, so I'm making a concerted effort to actually go when I have a free Sunday, and get on with the things I need to do each weekend on the Saturday.

September till mid November was incredibly busy, but full of fun things, there was a period of just guest after guest after guest staying at our house. All of their company was lovely. Every single one. Would like more guests to come and stay, though perhaps in less back to back fashion.

Rachael's birthday went well. Lesson seems to be let me organise it, though I'll inevitably mess something up, the end result generally is good. Wish I hadn't forgotten a couple of people, while trying to organise others, and all the minor irritations that resulted from that.

Managed to sort some computer problems back in September by installing a new heat sink roughly 3 times the size of my old one. Now runs cooler on full load than it used to run at idle. May try further overclocking of CPU in future, if that appears to be a bottleneck.

Also managed to get Win 7 installed and generally behaving itself, including configuring things it doesn't normally let you configure. Win 7 might have been the cause of the overheating the cooler changer fixed.

Ran some D&D with old friends in October. I need to be less enamoured with mazes, especially bastardish 3D ones. Would like to run tabletop for a group of people in Bath of the same campaign, just need to get more stable job location situation first.

Still need to write and run Watershipdown based Bunnies and Burrows tabletop game to introduce Rachael to tabletop roleplaying.

Made a card game, appears to be fun. Need to get version 0.2 finished and out to people for next playtesting session.

Have remortagaged to replace old deal coming to an end. Going from 5.75% to 2.45%, which is about £230/month less! Thanks very very much to pujaemuss for sorting that.