Today’s photo is from 1986. Present opening is the best 🙂
Today’s earworm playlist:
Traditional – ‘Bleak Midwinter’
Murray Gold and Yamit Mamo – ‘The Stowaway’
Chris Rea – ‘Driving Home For Christmas’
Bing Crosby – ‘White Christmas’
Tag: Christmas
Dad fiddling, 2001
In case you missed it yesterday, you can play my new graphical text adventure game here!
Today’s photo is from Hogmanay 2001. Dad is usually to be found playing traditional Scottish tunes at various points during the Christmas period!
Today’s earworm playlist:
Pet Shop Boys – ‘Heart’
Latest game about to release!
Update: you can play the game here!
It features this familiar character…
Today’s earworm playlist:
Erasure – ‘Sometimes’
Robbie Williams – ‘Time For Change’
Christmas tree, 1994
Still no running vlog. Sorry I’m behind with that, it’s been a mad few days! I’ll try and have it posted by Wednesday.
I’m taking a bit of time off over Christmas, so for the next couple of weeks, I’ll be posting an old photo every day instead of doing a diary blog post.
Today’s earworm playlist:
Pet Shop Boys – ‘Heart’
Robbie Williams – ‘Time For Change’
Christmassy weekend vibes
Another busy day. I got my day job work for the week finished – so barring any last-minute jobs next week, I’m clear for Christmas! – and finished off the coding for my game (just the graphics to implement now). Geth and I also went to Asda to do our last big Christmas shop. Because we’ll be forming a bubble with Mum and Dad for Christmas, we’re following the guidance to isolate between today and the 23rd, so no more shop visits until post-bubble.
I’ve been very good with my diet for the last few weeks, but Christmas eating sort of begins this weekend! I’d been having trouble finding fancy mince pies that didn’t have any alcohol in them, so I was delighted to see some salted caramel ones in Asda today. Looking forward to trying lots of different ones over the next few days.
I’ll be back with an update on Monday, and hopefully a link to my brand new Christmas game!
Today’s earworm playlist:
Pet Shop Boys – ‘Heart’
Inching closer
Another day, another quick run, another afternoon of coding, another chunk of day job work, another set of presents wrapped, and another day closer to Christmas!
Geth is finishing work tomorrow so it’ll be a good weekend. I’m looking forward to getting my game finished and making final preparations for next week.
Today’s earworm playlist:
Pet Shop Boys – ‘Heart’
Judy Garland – ‘Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas’
Pressing on!
It’s been quite a tiring week so far! Coding, day job work and Christmas prep are all keeping me pretty busy. It’s all going well, though, and it means I will appreciate my Christmas break all the more.
My game is going really well. I’m nearly done with the coding and should be able to move onto graphics tomorrow. The deadline is Monday, but my game is fairly short so it shouldn’t take me too long, and I’m hoping to have it with my playtesters by the weekend.
Day job work (at least everything that’s come in so far) should also be done by the weekend. I keep my business open till Christmas Eve (because there are always last-minute short jobs from clients on Christmas Eve) but then I will be taking a fortnight’s break to coincide with academic Christmas holidays. I’m obviously sad that the COVID rules mean I can only spend a few days with family rather than the whole of Christmas like I usually do, but it means I can take the opportunity to learn how to do a bit of special cooking by myself this year. Dad is cooking all the New Year favourites (pizza and hotpot!) during the short time we have together at Christmas, and I’m going to be watching so that I can have a go at them myself at New Year.
New Year and my birthday are going to be very emotionally wobbly for me because there are so many things I’ve done my whole life that I can’t do this year, and I’m feeling a bit fragile about it. Still, I know everyone’s in the same boat, and we just have to make the best of it. Christmas 2021 will hopefully be really extra-special and appreciated as a result.
Another busy day tomorrow. The weekend fast approaches though!
Today’s earworm playlist:
Pet Shop Boys – ‘Heart’
Buried in code
Another busy day today working on my current game. It’s very absorbing but as ever I’m really enjoying it! It’s a Christmas game so I’m also really excited about doing the graphics later in the week.
Now catching up with the Strictly episodes from the weekend. Going to try and stay caught up this week as I want to watch the final live – I don’t think I’ve voted yet this series so will be making up for that on Saturday!
Similar day tomorrow.
Today’s earworm playlist:
Pet Shop Boys – ‘Heart’
Sebastian Gampl and Tommy Reeve – ‘Under Control’