At home today Steve had been at work, while the children had cleaned out the guinea pigs and packed bags for Mill on the Brue. I checked them and scrawled initials on with biro – hope that’s enough for ‘clearly labelled’. Yesterday Anna left for Romania, so we’re about to have a week with no children … looking forward to it! Although we have still got Suzie here and she’s nearly as much trouble …

So, first of all I worked on completing the first game – all done, three stars on each level. I confess I haven’t got all the awards for score but there is a limit, even for me

Then, given that my Pocket Frogs are taking hours and hours to hatch now that I’m on the higher levels, I got going onto the Halloween game. Some of the original game’s updates had been rather tame and easy to complete, and I was worried that the Halloween game would be the same, but no, it was back to the original very challenging levels that were in the first few levels of the first game

I HAD to get it done before the end of the week, otherwise it would have been bugging me for ages! All done

I have read a couple of books, too … but they weren’t quite as exciting

My penultimate weekend of the holidays was spent caching; my friend and I were rather proud of ourselves managing 109 in one day, a figure of 8 walk of around 20 miles, mostly in the pouring rain as well. We did 30-odd the day before, and 28 the day after, as well. We had been going to camp up in North Devon but in the end because of the weather we decided to camp at home instead, so that we could dry our clothes/boots and charge batteries overnight!

The girls had time with friends over the weekend which was great for them, Josiah came with us on Sunday, and Steve had some peace and quiet!

All I can say, having done that, is that it might have bumped my total caches found number up significantly, and it was fun to have the marathon challenge, but I can hardly remember any one individual cache. I would far prefer to spend the time and energy on one decent cache(password available on request) than on 150 pots behind posts. I can safely say that the graph won’t carry on going upwards at such an almost-exponential rate, as I won’t be carrying on like that throughout this academic year!

Since then we’ve just been bumbling around at home; I’ve been working every morning on school stuff and a little bit of orchestra as well, and the children have been generally annoying me. We hoped to have some ‘family afternoons’ but Steve hasn’t made it home before 5pm any day so far, so never mind about that! Evenings have been spent sewing nametapes onto school clothes in the vain hope that if they’re named they might not go missing so often

First here are last year’s graphs:

And now today’s:

Adding in the little graph that shows difficulty and terrain, as I am particularly proud of the 5/5 that we did last year!

Secondly some ebay buyer is messing me around and doesn’t want to complete their transaction, which is just irritating in the extreme for a number of reasons.

And NOW. Now. I have been playing this silly game called MySims on the wii for a few weeks, and was going to complete it today – complete as in have collected all the UberSims and maxed out the town in the various ways you can do it. Anyway, the daft game developed a bug at the last minute, and wouldn’t let me move the last UberSim in. Or move any other Sim in for that matter, it had one Sim stuck in its memory and wouldn’t even move that one in. So I gave up, which I probably should have done weeks ago, it must be the most boring game on the planet, I really don’t recommend it – only people with ocd like me will get a kick out of completing boring tasks just for the sake of collecting everything and ticking all the boxes. But even I’m not OCD enough to start again from scratch.

Guess I’ll have to do some housework instead. I’m waiting in for some shelves to arrive today, and it has seemed futile to do much cleaning until they’re here, as when they are set up I am planning a major re-organisation of books and stuff around the whole house, which will create loads of mess, which I’ll have to clear up after, so there really isn’t any point clearing up beforehand, is there?

Update
I have the part of tarski that I wanted working now, even if I did have to delete a whole section of code to sort it out (not exactly the best way to sort it but it’s done the job), and that’s the tag cloud. I just love looking at it! And of course now I have to go back through my 1600 odd posts to tag them all, which appeals greatly to my ocd tendencies. As if I didn’t have enough to do with consolidating my acww catalogue

Can’t sort the picture just yet so the colours/piccie at the top might take longer to sort out – and I think I (and therefore you ) just have to live with it for a while before making any more theme changes

What do the colors mean?
blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
grey: all other tags

I liked this, spotted on a friend’s photostream … and fun to watch the java applet creating the thingummy in the first place

There are lots on flickr, really interesting how different they all are, some of them are really pretty … And yes, work is interesting as ever

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