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Post by RLDavies on Jul 28, 2024 17:35:22 GMT
It's either doing this or doing my actual work! I've just gone through it again and it seems to be OK this time. ...So I guess I'll have to do work now. ---- EDIT: The video went through the process OK and YouTube seems to have no objections. The video is currently "unlisted" because I don't want to make any of the videos generally available until I've done the entire game, and that might not be for months yet. But if anyone wants a sneak preview of Part 1, here it is. (It's an hour long.) This opening section is heavy on the talking and not so much on the action, but that's how it is. youtu.be/co1drOjeYHoIf anybody watches, I wouldn't mind hearing any comments, especially from those who haven't played "The Dig". ...And now I really need to get on with work. Sigh.
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Post by amanda on Jul 29, 2024 7:52:43 GMT
Currently ensconced in a Docklands motel that I nearly couldn't find, due to the lie of the land here.
There is a big building housing the Bureau of Meterology among others and I was standing at the top of an external staircase that would take me to the street level of the motel, but for the fact I was a packhorse with suitcase etc.
Luckily an employee of the building happened to ask if I wanted the motel and led me through reception to the lift down to their carpark, from which I could exit. I will have to use this route in the morning when I leave around 7.45 am.
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Post by jenny on Jul 29, 2024 15:24:06 GMT
Day 4 of isolation. My day so far has consisted of reading stuff and playing games on my iPad. i will stretch to some light TV watching later. Plague symptoms are lightening. Apart from boredom and lack of exercise it’s not too bad really. Much like being in jail but with more comfortable surroundings. I won’t say with better food because Woodsman does not brag of his culinary skills for very good reasons. But,bless him, he’s doing his best.
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Post by tetsabb on Jul 29, 2024 16:38:57 GMT
To the dentist. A crown came off tge other evening. X-rays taken Appointment for Friday week, and the following Monday for Root canal work Oh joy.
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Post by Sadurian Mike on Jul 29, 2024 16:57:25 GMT
I was thinking about hedgehogs: we occasionally drive past a road called Hedgehog Way or something and I fell to thinking how inherently comical hedgehogs are, and how I used to see them in my parents' vast garden many years ago, but never since. I even started Googling them. Then a hedgehog ran across the lawn. My immediate thought was that it is a fine compensation for the disappearance of the frogs from the garden - maybe they were put off because the surface of the pond is almost covered in waterlily leaves, and that thing about frogs sitting on lily pads is just in children's stories isn't it? At that moment in vast leaps a frog hopped across the garden, and was next seen sitting on a lily pad. Have you tried wondering why you aren't a millionaire?
Or, better still, why I'm not a millionaire.
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Post by Bondee on Jul 29, 2024 19:56:08 GMT
It's a hard life, being a cat...
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Post by jenny on Jul 30, 2024 15:39:56 GMT
Poor abused hard-done-by kitties! You can tell they're really suffering!
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Post by bigmartin on Jul 30, 2024 18:12:45 GMT
Busy day at Newark Park. Nice weather and school holidays combined to make it a great day. The fact that it's always cold in the entry hall to the house was a distinct advantage today, and my 2 basement tours were "refreshing" rather than the usual "chilly". Only downer was that one of my colleagues fell and broke her wrist. I didn't see what happened as I was giving my 12.30 basement tour at the time, but an ambulance was called etc. Hope she's OK.
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Post by Bondee on Jul 30, 2024 20:32:52 GMT
I sat on the back doorstep once the sun had moved around to the side of the house, cleaning various bike parts in various containers of water, degreasing chemicals, etc. The hosepipe is right next to the spot where I was sitting so I'd regularly take a break and douse myself with cold water. Very refreshing!
I was in the shade all afternoon, but still felt my forehead stinging a bit when I came back inside.
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Post by Bondee on Jul 31, 2024 8:52:11 GMT
Rudely awakened just before 5am by a cat biting my elbow.
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Post by jenny on Jul 31, 2024 14:40:23 GMT
...and that is why I don't allow cats in my bedroom! I have enough sleep issues as it is without adding feline activity to them.
And Woodsman has now tested positive for Covid, though as he hadn't tested until yesterday we're not quite sure when it started as he has remarkably few symptoms. On Monday he was more tired than usual at the end of the day, and he has a slightly runny nose and a mild cough. I am now out of isolation and there's no point in him isolating from me, so we're just going to stay home for a few more days. We have plenty of food in the house so we'll be fine.
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Post by Bondee on Jul 31, 2024 20:20:04 GMT
My bedroom has three outside walls that face east, south and west, so the sun is on it from dawn to dusk. It's far too hot to sleep in at the moment so I've been sleeping on the futon in the back room. Unfortunately, the back room is also the room in which we feed JJ.
He was hungry. I was in his room. I had to be roused from my slumber to make sure that the poor little waif didn't starve. It's my own fault for not wanting to boil overnight.
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Post by Dix on Jul 31, 2024 22:19:14 GMT
I spent my lunch hour dropping in at a random London church. The volunteers in charge chatted happily away, covering architechture (obviously), reformation, differences between UK and Danish, leading on to education systems, and -- finally -- a random remark of mine revealed that one of them went to school with Neil Gaiman. All in all a very satisfying lunch break.
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Post by amanda on Aug 1, 2024 10:32:49 GMT
Went to the cemetery in the Sydney suburbs where the mortuary trains used to run in the early 1900's.
Those on FB will see some photos of it all. We then got the train to a shopping centre where my friend worked in a bookshop and we had some lunch there.
Then walked around the nearby area where a recently published kids novel is set.
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Post by jenny on Aug 1, 2024 15:32:27 GMT
Sounds like a very enjoyable day amanda :-)
We are still stuck indoors, but have decided that by Sunday we will both be through the whole Covid thing to go to a dinner we've booked for our 22nd wedding anniversary at the hotel where we got married in 2002. According to our doctor, after five days isolation we're allowed to rejoin the human race, and that will be at least the seventh day for Woodsman. We got married outside overlooking Casco Bay, which opens to the Atlantic. We've been to this restaurant a few times and always had a good meal there.
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Post by crissdee on Aug 1, 2024 15:47:10 GMT
Awwww. That sounds lovely Jenny! My bestest wishes to you and Syl!
It seems that I might have been the last to post anything on the old forum. A strange honour, not something I ever hoped for. Onwards and upwards!
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Post by jenny on Aug 1, 2024 15:48:44 GMT
Topping the pinnacle, Chris!
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Post by suze on Aug 1, 2024 17:16:02 GMT
One's 22nd wedding anniversary is apparently one's junk mail wedding.
That comes from the same source which decreed that the 16th is the tapioca wedding, which some will recall TGH and I celebrating a couple years ago.
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Post by bigmartin on Aug 1, 2024 19:22:53 GMT
Interesting day at "work". We had a field mouse dash through the house before running out of the door as one of my colleagues opened it to let some visitors in. Then a visitor approached me to ask about something and, seeing my name badge, said "hello Martin, it's got to be nearly 50 years since we last met". It was a person that I was disallowed from using in a name game on the old forum some years back. I'm sure we've encountered each other more recently, but our common membership of the Bristol University Wargames Club does go back to the 1970s!
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Post by jenny on Aug 2, 2024 17:23:12 GMT
Ha ha at "junk mail wedding". Goodness knows we get plenty of that and we didn't even have to wait 22 years for it! With luck and a following wind we'll make our silver wedding in three years' time, which means I will have had two silver weddings in my life, which I guess is compensation for it being very unlikely I'll ever have a golden one. I almost made it to the thirtieth anniversary, which is the pearl anniversary, with husband number 1 and I might even do that with Woodsman. He's turning 82 this month, but his mother made it to 97 and he's pretty healthy - not many men his age are on no medication at all - so fingers crossed that may happen.
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Post by amanda on Aug 3, 2024 2:09:20 GMT
Likewise with my first night in the Sydney motel bed, I am still getting the feeling of going up and down from the 12 hour train trip. Delayed 20 minutes from leaving Sydney because police had to attend.
Then the incident overnight three hours into the trip that resulted in a woman being ejected in a town with a train service twice a day.
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Post by tetsabb on Aug 3, 2024 14:51:51 GMT
We have just returned from East Grinstead with a table and four chairs for the garden. Wendy got in touch with a lady on Trash nothing or similar, so they were free. All manoeuvred to car and into shed at home without injury. Unlike getting the filing cabinet in February that slithered down stairs with me underneath.
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Post by Bondee on Aug 3, 2024 16:47:13 GMT
Got the CBB's again so I've spent the day doing bugger all.
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Post by eeyoresmum on Aug 3, 2024 18:11:41 GMT
Welcome back to the world, J&W. Have a lovely day out and meal (zeugma). Congrats!
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Post by tetsabb on Aug 3, 2024 18:45:14 GMT
Welcome back to the world, J&W. Have a lovely day out and meal (zeugma). Congrats! Huh? Colour me puzzled! 😉
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Post by Bondee on Aug 4, 2024 20:10:23 GMT
Got the CBB's again so I've spent the day doing bugger all. And again today. I got my Sertraline dosage down to 50mg from 150mg but I'm wondering if nudging it back up to 100mg might help. A call to the doc is in order.
One good thing came out of my inability to move from the sofa. I managed to beat my own high score on Revenge of the 'Gator.
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Post by eeyoresmum on Aug 4, 2024 20:14:44 GMT
Jenny and Woodsman could finally leave the house after their Covid encounter, and went to have meal to celebrate their umpteenth wedding anniversary.
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Post by tetsabb on Aug 5, 2024 9:00:12 GMT
Jenny and Woodsman could finally leave the house after their Covid encounter, and went to have meal to celebrate their umpteenth wedding anniversary. Oh good grief, I can be dumb sometimes.🤔🤔
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Post by jenny on Aug 5, 2024 17:56:02 GMT
And a delicious meal we had too. We went to The Inn By The Sea in Cape Elizabeth, where we got married 22 years ago. You can see a pathway coming from the hotel, with a flower bed in the middle of the pathway. We got married at a spot at the end of the pathway, overlooking the sea.
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Post by RLDavies on Aug 5, 2024 20:22:48 GMT
Them what has a deadline on Monday, and plays silly buggers through most of Saturday, has only themselves to blame if they have to work round the clock on Sunday.
Got to bed a little before 3 o'clock Monday afternoon. Woke up a bit before 9 in the evening. I'm currently having a simple dinner of hot dog, crisps, and melon, since I can't be bothered to make or eat anything more complicated than that. Intend to spend what's left of the evening doing not a whole lot, then head back to bed at a more normal time (for me). When I get up on Tuesday, the jolly round starts again.
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