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Well it ended last week. I left at 2pm (my normal finishing time being 1pm on a Friday) with everything done. My accounts cleared out (deleted the mailing lists numerous emails), as was my file space, with anything important emailed to the pop account we have at home, and I got it all ok, which is good. I finished my report on the Friday (48 pages long, including some 20 pages of code, and a, legitimately included, embarrassing photo of my manager), I gave my presentation on my work on the Wednesday (to a bunch of people who didn't know what I was doing and didn't really care), so yeah I got it all done.

To be honest I got out of my placement what I put in, I could have put in more, but, meh, that's how it worked out. My review by my manager and supervisor (done for the university's sake mostly) was totally fair, nothing I could disagree with.
I've got a lot of hopefully useful experience, a decent amount of money, and a new friend I really should email at some point.

What will I miss? Well mostly the lunches when almosthonest and I managed to meet up. I got to know him a lot better this year, which I'm glad I got the opportunity to do, and I maybe even helped him out a little on occasion. Now to convince people in Bath that trips to his flat in Bristol are a good thing (TM).

Thanks once again to the mailing list, for as I put it in my last email, for all the distractions, points of interest and amusements, and all those mental images I can't forget. 1306 email I sent in total I think, not bad for a year's work.

And special thanks for P for always giving me something to look forward to when I got into work, and helping me completely forget about it in the evenings.

Anyway all done. Well, except for getting my ex-supervisor to find my missing payslips (and more importantly the forms from the Inland Revenue I should have) and sending them on to me. Oh yes and getting the doctored version of my report so I can hand it in to the university when it no longer contains any company secrets.


It is worth noting that I have had less time than I thought I would since I finished, but then again I have been getting up at noon this week.



Yes for the last couple of weeks I have been D&Ding again which is a good thing. drabbit started a new game recently, and it's been very good so far. I'm playing a sorcerer-druid called Sih (pronounced 'Sigh' or 'Shorty' if your hotpork) with plans to specialise in summoning animals (and casting lots while wild shaped), hotpork is player a Lawful Good Ranger, fourmyle is playing a cleric who appears to be turning rogue (or is that a rogue who has dabbled with clericdom), and marmaladecat who is playing a swashbuckling barbarian, and my characters adopted big brother.

My character's an Asharer (Sorry drabbit if I've spelt that wrong), drabbit invented his own races for the world, and its basically a small swimming humanoid (+2 chr, -2 wis, normal water creature things (and a few others), 4ft 10 average height). There's quite a detailed back story to Sih, mostly worked out with marmaladecat, basically boiling down to both our characters being adopted by the Mayor of our village and how we would have interacted when growing up. marmaladecat is playing a Sprian (not Spirian as fourmyle keeps calling him) basically lanky albino nomadic race, so we both arrived in the village in different ways as children and were adopted by the kind mayor.

drabbit wanted us having grown up together so he would be less likely to have internal party problems. Instead we have the wonderful situation where hotpork is my characters child hood bully, and primary target of Sih's practical jokes. It's all been fairly good natured so far, but not as drabbit expected.

But yes, all in all very good, and lots of fun.



Also have started an Amber games run by indigogecko. My character is called Galcian and could be described as the reluctant Amberite, or Ford Prefect. If you know where the name comes from, then yes I did kind of nick some of the character concept, but meh I can. Though more the artifice side of things than the lunacy


Summary: roleplaying good, good roleplaying better.


The last thing I wish to write about last night. I spent some time yesterday shopping for costume for Durant, unfortunately the shops didn't really have anything suitable. I have basic green things already, and nothing was of the right style. I did choose to ignore a pair of green leather trousers that would have been good in the yellow shop. They were my size I think, but they were flared, well that and the fact that I draw the line at wearing leather trousers when it comes to larp costume.

I did however buy a decent amount of fabric in varying hues of green. The problem is I don't know what to make out of it. Current ideas are basically a sash, that it, I need more. Might ask tomorrow.


Summary: Have fabric need ideas of what to make out of it (costume wise).

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I'm happy to have a go at making something drapey/flowy if you have enough fabric for that (with your input of course!!) otehrwise if you want to make something yourself, cloaks or poncho/tabard style things are easiest to make and go on top of whatever else you have already and make it look better...