Dog day afternoon
Spent the day up at A+K’s, much of which was spent with Puggle learning how to play with a playful and very licky puppy Zoe. A yummy lunch, (Bilby kept wanting all the cherry tomatoes from the salad). Puggle and I also got to play some Wii.
The rest of the week and a bit, redux:
- Easter, see Swancon. Plus chocolate eggs
- Swancon, caught up with lots of people. Despite much discussion elsewhere the only problem I had with the programming was that it seemed a bit light on for Friday and Saturday (Sunday and Monday were fine though). Ken Macleod, Rob Shearman and were great, Karl Schroeder had some very interesting information about forecasting future possibilities, and unfortunately I personally didn’t see much of Glenda Larke (although I know she’s great from chatting with her at previous cons) or the academic stream. Some wonderful moments at the awards ceremony. We now know how to herd fans (tell them more bar tab still needs spending Puggle amazingly lost interest during the Dalek voiceover. He did however pick up some tips from the Jedi training as he repurposed some coloured cricket wickets as a sith lightsaber later on in the week!
- Got to watch some of Puggle swimming (thanks to an outage at work :() and all of Bilby’s swim.
- Plumbing a solenoid into the back reticulation. Now just needs to be leakproofed and connected up to the X-10 system once I find the bits.
- Got a MacBook Air for the evening, which conveniently I could show off at Pancakes If only I got a commission…
- Caught up with the ‘local’ FileMaker Rep. Has certainly evolved since last I saw it, some nice plugins available.
- Jamie’s Steak, Guiness and Cheese Pie (this online recipe is missing that it’s 1kg of beef and 3 red onions, and we used no stock, just water). Unfortunately we were out of Guinness so I was forced to go out and purchase a carton
- Upgraded this blog to Wordpress 2.5, still waiting on some more plugins to become compatible before the sidebar is back to normal.
- The end of daylight saving for another year. Yay!
