It’s been a busy day, despite the fact that I didn’t get out and about to the various things I’d planned! The deadline for the game jam was extended by a day so I’ve been doing a lot of extra playtesting – plus of course there was a pumpkin to carve and a lot of horror films to watch in honour of the day 🙂
I feel I’ve been so busy with the game that I’ve not really had the chance to relax and enjoy Hallowe’en yet, so I’ll be extending it over the weekend!
Not really an OOTD ’cause you all know that jumper: I finally got to carve my pumpkin today! Normally I do them so early they’re already squishy by Hallowe’en 🙂
Today’s earworm playlist:
Duran Duran – Ordinary World John Carpenter – Laurie’s Theme Duran Duran – Hungry Like The Wolf Mumford & Sons – Little Lion Man
Edinburgh is one of those city centres with quite a lot of red phone boxes. There are still a few about town that I’ve not got round to photographing yet!
Just got off the treadmill, having done my nightly ninety minutes to get my steps in. It’s a good thing I decided to set my daily step goal as an October target, because I’ve been so busy with my text adventure this week that I doubt I’d have got any exercise in otherwise! Didn’t even make it to ukulele class this evening, although I will be back with a vengeance next week.
Eight and a half hours to go until the jam deadline – and I expect I’ll be up for quite a few of those hours getting everything finished off!
Busy day tomorrow too…
Not an OOTD: I’m still loving making my pixel turnip lanterns! Much easier to make on the computer than hollowing out the real thing…
Today’s earworm playlist:
Michael Land – Lucre Island Lawyers Jimmy Eat World – The Middle Fleetwood Mac – Big Love Duran Duran – First Impression Michael Land – The First Church Of LeChuck…Orthodox Duran Duran – 911 Is A Joke
Last few days before Hallowe’en. I’ve still got a lot to do, the main thing being to get my text adventure game finished! It’ll be a bit of a squeeze but I’ll get it done. I’ve also got an article to finish, some editing to do for a client and a poem or two to write – not to mention a lantern to carve and a lot of TV and films to watch! Going to be a busy few days.
I’ve mainly been coding and walking today (still getting those steps in every day). Up early tomorrow to get started again!
Not an OOTD: my pumpkin is still uncarved, and Geth has put some boardgames on the table that we will probably be selling next year, including Fury of Dracula (the cover of which is now annoying me because I’ve only just noticed that despite the game’s title, Dracula actually looks really happy on the box artwork!).
Today’s earworm playlist:
Michael Land – The Smugglers’ Cave Michael Land – The Scumm Bar (MI4) Blancmange – Living On The Ceiling Squeeze – Tempted Duran Duran – Secret Oktober
Today was mostly taken up with Hallowe’en boardgaming – Geth and I had some friends round and we played a couple of seasonally appropriate games that I’d been wanting to try for ages.
The first was Last Friday, which is a hidden movement game that…let’s say ‘pays homage’ to summer camp slasher movies such as Friday the 13th. In this regard, it has the same theme as Camp Grizzly, another favourite among my collection, though they’re very different games – Camp Grizzly is a simple and not-very-replayable Ameritrash game, and while it’s thematically brilliant (and hence will always have a place on the game shelves), Last Friday is so much more in-depth and long-lasting as a game.
The second game we played today was Ghostel, which is a nice short dice placement game where you control ghosts competing to scare off the most hotel guests! Very easy and fun.
After the boardgaming guests had gone, I started the annual Hallowe’en TV-watching traditions with a few ‘Treehouse of Horror’ episodes of The Simpsons. Looking forward to a few nights of this!
Not an OOTD: the Ghostel board. The plastic ghost pieces are so cute!
Today’s earworm playlist:
Duran Duran – 911 Is A Joke Duran Duran – Secret Oktober Duran Duran – White Lines
It’s been a pretty busy day (and this will continue for the next several days until…um…Christmas, maybe? The non-stop time of year has started!).
I did Jesmond Dene parkrun again this morning and took more than three minutes off my time from a fortnight ago – knowing the course makes a huge difference! I then spent a bit of time sorting out the house this afternoon as Geth and I are hosting a Hallowe’en boardgaming session tomorrow, and since then have been working on an article I’m writing for a website.
I’ll be mostly boardgaming tomorrow, but will also be squeezing in a bit of time for working on my text adventure game!
I don’t think I’ve ever been so grateful for the extra hour you get from the clocks going back…
Not an OOTD: just some of my collection of USB sticks. I carry them every time I leave the house, even when running, because I’m paranoid that the house will burn down and I’ll lose my entire life’s work of writing and other computer files (I don’t store stuff on the cloud ’cause I don’t trust it). Carrying them while running is a bit of a pain and I’m hoping to find a better way of doing things at some point.
Today’s earworm playlist:
Michael Land – Lucre Island Lawyers Marc Almond and Gene Pitney – Something’s Gotten Hold Of My Heart Ultravox – Hymn Duran Duran – Secret Oktober Duran Duran – 911 Is A Joke
I’ve had a day in the house today (meaning a treadmill walk this evening to get my steps in!). I’ve mainly been working on my text adventure – the end is in sight in terms of the actual programming, but I’ve still got quite a lot of graphics to create.
I’ve also spent a bit more time looking into job opportunities. There’s a few different things I could do and I’m going to spend a bit more time researching them this weekend.
I had a good walk this morning, but otherwise it’s been a bit of a frustrating day as I’ve not been able to concentrate or get everything done. Hopefully I’ll be a bit more with-it tomorrow.
I’m tentatively jobhunting at the moment, as business has been slow recently and some additional financial commitments mean that I really need to find some extra work. Will be sending out a lot of applications this weekend.
Not an OOTD: on the plus side, at least my pesto stocks are looking healthy.
Today’s earworm playlist:
New Order – Temptation Gomez – Whippin’ Piccadilly Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett – The Monster Mash John Lennon – Woman
(I’m not sure why, but it seems that Google Street View has started blurring out the word ‘Telephone’ in images of red phone boxes for some strange reason! Maybe they consider it to be the phone box’s ‘face’.)
These two have succumbed to a certain amount of graffiti and flyers – as expected given it’s the centre of Edinburgh – but on the whole they’re still in fairly good condition.
