Lazy weekend
Jun. 6th, 2005 05:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackI had an incredably lazy weekend. On friday I went to Sin City, but after that didn't schedule anything.
I had gone through my piles of bills and statements that I was going to look at soon, and checked everything is up to date, and then redid my funky "expediture per week, month or year" spreadsheet by actually looking at a statement and seeing what I did spend in a month, and using genuine utility charges, rather than guessing both, and it looks like I'm doing ok. Though I need to do it for multiple months; I kind of ignored a ball ticket or so that is definitely a one off, but has to be recorded *somewhere*.
Also I was nostalgicly playing Hexen (an archaic FPS with slight roleplayingness in the stats if not plot), and concluded (1) it's cool to be good at something you used to suck at (2) it would be cool to get some more games and (3) I play life the way I play RPGs; not knowing how much money or healing potions will be available later I tend to horde them until I have no choice, and then expend some without thinking about it, whereas reasonable planning might occasionally leave me short more often would be easier in the long run, and hence I should spend some of the surplus I think I had on shiny discs.
I went into town and got a few 3-for-£n movies and games, and trawled many second hand shops. Then I spent the rest of the weeknd trying to get the games to run. OK, and reading lots. And writing a bit. And tidying not veyr much.
Early Asimov stories: I love it, Isaac, but for crying out loud, one more story written around an awful pun in the last line and I'll disown you from the genre. Though there was one where the character was lynched for it, so I forgive.
Dodgeball: that was quite fun. I thought goodguy and badguy were actually quite similar, except badguy being slimier. And I got all the way to the end and then the pirate took his scarf off and I said "Oh my god! Its Alan Tudyk, who plays Wash in Firefly[1]!" I really do suck at recognising actors :)
[1] I said this inside my head so explaining who he was was implicit and didn't take any longer, but I put it in here for anyone who doesn't know, so I didn't have to bother with a footnote. Oops.
I had gone through my piles of bills and statements that I was going to look at soon, and checked everything is up to date, and then redid my funky "expediture per week, month or year" spreadsheet by actually looking at a statement and seeing what I did spend in a month, and using genuine utility charges, rather than guessing both, and it looks like I'm doing ok. Though I need to do it for multiple months; I kind of ignored a ball ticket or so that is definitely a one off, but has to be recorded *somewhere*.
Also I was nostalgicly playing Hexen (an archaic FPS with slight roleplayingness in the stats if not plot), and concluded (1) it's cool to be good at something you used to suck at (2) it would be cool to get some more games and (3) I play life the way I play RPGs; not knowing how much money or healing potions will be available later I tend to horde them until I have no choice, and then expend some without thinking about it, whereas reasonable planning might occasionally leave me short more often would be easier in the long run, and hence I should spend some of the surplus I think I had on shiny discs.
I went into town and got a few 3-for-£n movies and games, and trawled many second hand shops. Then I spent the rest of the weeknd trying to get the games to run. OK, and reading lots. And writing a bit. And tidying not veyr much.
Early Asimov stories: I love it, Isaac, but for crying out loud, one more story written around an awful pun in the last line and I'll disown you from the genre. Though there was one where the character was lynched for it, so I forgive.
Dodgeball: that was quite fun. I thought goodguy and badguy were actually quite similar, except badguy being slimier. And I got all the way to the end and then the pirate took his scarf off and I said "Oh my god! Its Alan Tudyk, who plays Wash in Firefly[1]!" I really do suck at recognising actors :)
[1] I said this inside my head so explaining who he was was implicit and didn't take any longer, but I put it in here for anyone who doesn't know, so I didn't have to bother with a footnote. Oops.