I had a few of the guys from the office over tonight to play some games, and one of them unintentionally discovered something quite amusing: in Wii Sports, you can set up Tennis to have one player on both teams. Playing tennis against yourself is (a) quite hard, and (b) funny as all-get-out.

Frank Sinatra's album, "In the Wee Small Hours", is quite good, but very, very depressing.

I need to go listen to something more upbeat now.

...but I'd really rather not be. (That seems to be a common state today.) Been going over the list of problems spotted whilst I was taking my two weeks off, trying to figure out which ones are still broken, which are fixed-sorta, and which are actually fixed :p So far, things don't look that bad, but I've still got a few issues to go, and then ( Read more... )

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Game day was great fun, thanks to everyone who came (and extra bonus thanks to Mom and stardustshine, for taking care of so much cleaning and such behind the scenes!

Also, for the curious:

this is the Slashdot story I was talking about with the oddball parasite.

I've had a good Christmas, but I'm very tired, so this will be short :p ( Read more... )

So, we did the cookie bake this weekend. ZOMG so many cookies. Cookies, cookies, cookies ( Read more... )

What the heck. B's busy, I'm at home, here's a few memes of late:

( Sci-Fi Book List )

The system's stability improves to the point where the testers can determine that things are broken - and this constitutes "significant progress".

Beach was good. Very good. We're back now, and I am really, really not looking forward to work tomorrow/this week, as it's going to be completely off-the-charts insane, I expect.

More later, if time allows. For now, the bed, it calls to me...

You know it's not going to be a good day when ( Read more... )