Thursday 21st July 2016
So I'm trying to keep up maintaining my LJ. It's been a week since I got back from visiting Mum.
I haven't discovered anything else that I managed to forget other than my bras and keyring, though there are things that I wish I had been able to bring back with me, like more wedding stuff and the face masks from Lush. Well, I can trust Mum not to use them. Maybe. She might be tempted by my rose one anyway, but she has the one I got for her to try, even if she whinges a bit about the smell. Could be worse, it could have been the garlic one!
It's been a busy-ish week. On Thursday we were going to go out to eat somewhere and then go to the cinema to see the new Star Trek movie, since Ghostbusters wasn't out yet, but poor Per managed to mix up the dates and he had actually reserved tickets for next week. I said nevermind, we could just cancel those and go to see Ghostbusters instead, since neither of us were particularly burning to see the Star Trek movie - that's a renter. We just went to a newish restaurant in town where you order things through an app while you sit at the table. You then get notified when your order is ready, so the service is pretty much limited to being shown to your table, told how the ordering system works and having the trays of little dishes taken away. It's basically a tapas place, but with more stuff that just Spanish food. Per and I got 10 dishes between us, like garlic-fried mushrooms, mushroom risotto, seafood pasta, garlic bread, sweet-potato chips, chicken skewers, gyouza and chilli-pulled-pork, and desserts. Not a bad selection, and reasonably priced. Plus, we can either get a free dish the next time we go or we can save that to have up to six free dishes. We will definitely be going back sometime. I also got a chance to use the bag hook that Mum gave me so I could hang both Per's and my bag out of the way.
Per was pleased as punch on Friday. He had suddenly decided that he wasn't going to try to get the very latest top-of-the-line Apple laptop whenever it comes out. Instead, he decided to order himself the parts for a gaming PC, which arrived at the office on Friday. He was super-keen to get back home and start putting them together before the D&D session started at 20:00. He had almost managed but was having problems with nothing appearing on the monitor when the game started. Paul was determined to put us through the wringer with this one. A horde of annoying little canon fodder before we went into a cave that turned out to contain...a red dragon! Faboo =_= It absolutely slaughtered all but one of us, which mean that Paul was able to bring out the NPCs he had apparently been waiting to use for months now. These NPCs from the Drizzt books resurrected us and softened up the dragon for us to finish off. SO we are now level 6 and rocking new sets of armour each. Got to look forward to the next game! Additionally, by the end of the evening Per had worked out what the problem with his new PC build was: there was a bent pin on one end of the monitor cable, and he had spent about three hours taking the PC apart and putting it back together again, trying to work out where he had gone wrong XD
The weekend was a fucking misery. It was Fallens Dagar in town and that meant a whole load of stalls and attractions. Alex and Johan came to meet us with their kids and Zelda, plus Pernilla and her son Alex. We were going to meet up and have a BBQ-picnic in Folkets Park, but as soon as we went outside it started to drizzle, the horrible misty stuff that makes you debate whether you need an umbrella but will get you quite wet, given enough time. We waited out by the park entrance until Alex and Johan arrived, but Pernilla was no where near yet. We took a walk back to the centre of festivities and waited for Pernilla to turn up, killing time by going to Per's office where we could sit in the dry and even play on the Nintendo WiiU a bit. I was busy with my knitting instead, since I suck at playing MarioKart without a motion controller these days.
Once Pernilla turned up, we went for a walk along the stalls...which turned out to be a big pain with so many people in our group, like herding cats. Since it was still raining a bit, we gave up on the idea of having a BBQ outside and would eat at the office instead. I went and picked up a frying pan from the apartment and went back with it so we could get the hot dogs cooked up.
All the while, I was swearing at my phone. Pokemon Go have become available to UK-registered iTunes accounts on Thursday and having played Ingress, made by the same company and working on similar principles, I wanted to give it a go. Of course, it was also launched in 26 other countries that Saturday, and I later read that a hacker group was messing with Niantic's server. Nice job, arseholes!
The pig of a day continued after the indoor BBQ with Per and I waiting around while the kiddies when on kiddy-rides in one of the streets away from the canal, and ended with us waiting around for everyone to meet up with us in the square so we could go back to the apartment with Johan and the (sleeping) twins. I let Per and Johan do whatever they wanted to do while I communed with my computer, happy to be doing something entertaining for the first time that day.
The weekend wasn't all bad though. We met up with Alex and Johan again on Sunday, but not for nearly as long, and the day ended happily with a bag of churros each as a treat.
Per then had to get through an extremely boring last week of work before his holiday started. There was no-one else working in the office, so I went in and ate lunch with him a couple of times, when I wasn't doing other things. Such as today. This entry was mainly typed while a repair guy was visting. A couple of days earlier, I had been emptying the dishwasher and realised that it was full of water in the bottom and wouldn't drain. I guess we're lucky it didn't flood! The guy was over around midday and spent about 45 minutes poking and prodding the machine but he wasn't able to find out what the problem was exactly, just that it wasn't an issue with the pipes or a kink in the hose, so it had to be the motor and there was a possibility that they wouldn't be able to find a replacement for it, so it might be time for a new dishwasher! Ooooooh! Fingers crossed!
I haven't discovered anything else that I managed to forget other than my bras and keyring, though there are things that I wish I had been able to bring back with me, like more wedding stuff and the face masks from Lush. Well, I can trust Mum not to use them. Maybe. She might be tempted by my rose one anyway, but she has the one I got for her to try, even if she whinges a bit about the smell. Could be worse, it could have been the garlic one!
It's been a busy-ish week. On Thursday we were going to go out to eat somewhere and then go to the cinema to see the new Star Trek movie, since Ghostbusters wasn't out yet, but poor Per managed to mix up the dates and he had actually reserved tickets for next week. I said nevermind, we could just cancel those and go to see Ghostbusters instead, since neither of us were particularly burning to see the Star Trek movie - that's a renter. We just went to a newish restaurant in town where you order things through an app while you sit at the table. You then get notified when your order is ready, so the service is pretty much limited to being shown to your table, told how the ordering system works and having the trays of little dishes taken away. It's basically a tapas place, but with more stuff that just Spanish food. Per and I got 10 dishes between us, like garlic-fried mushrooms, mushroom risotto, seafood pasta, garlic bread, sweet-potato chips, chicken skewers, gyouza and chilli-pulled-pork, and desserts. Not a bad selection, and reasonably priced. Plus, we can either get a free dish the next time we go or we can save that to have up to six free dishes. We will definitely be going back sometime. I also got a chance to use the bag hook that Mum gave me so I could hang both Per's and my bag out of the way.
Per was pleased as punch on Friday. He had suddenly decided that he wasn't going to try to get the very latest top-of-the-line Apple laptop whenever it comes out. Instead, he decided to order himself the parts for a gaming PC, which arrived at the office on Friday. He was super-keen to get back home and start putting them together before the D&D session started at 20:00. He had almost managed but was having problems with nothing appearing on the monitor when the game started. Paul was determined to put us through the wringer with this one. A horde of annoying little canon fodder before we went into a cave that turned out to contain...a red dragon! Faboo =_= It absolutely slaughtered all but one of us, which mean that Paul was able to bring out the NPCs he had apparently been waiting to use for months now. These NPCs from the Drizzt books resurrected us and softened up the dragon for us to finish off. SO we are now level 6 and rocking new sets of armour each. Got to look forward to the next game! Additionally, by the end of the evening Per had worked out what the problem with his new PC build was: there was a bent pin on one end of the monitor cable, and he had spent about three hours taking the PC apart and putting it back together again, trying to work out where he had gone wrong XD
The weekend was a fucking misery. It was Fallens Dagar in town and that meant a whole load of stalls and attractions. Alex and Johan came to meet us with their kids and Zelda, plus Pernilla and her son Alex. We were going to meet up and have a BBQ-picnic in Folkets Park, but as soon as we went outside it started to drizzle, the horrible misty stuff that makes you debate whether you need an umbrella but will get you quite wet, given enough time. We waited out by the park entrance until Alex and Johan arrived, but Pernilla was no where near yet. We took a walk back to the centre of festivities and waited for Pernilla to turn up, killing time by going to Per's office where we could sit in the dry and even play on the Nintendo WiiU a bit. I was busy with my knitting instead, since I suck at playing MarioKart without a motion controller these days.
Once Pernilla turned up, we went for a walk along the stalls...which turned out to be a big pain with so many people in our group, like herding cats. Since it was still raining a bit, we gave up on the idea of having a BBQ outside and would eat at the office instead. I went and picked up a frying pan from the apartment and went back with it so we could get the hot dogs cooked up.
All the while, I was swearing at my phone. Pokemon Go have become available to UK-registered iTunes accounts on Thursday and having played Ingress, made by the same company and working on similar principles, I wanted to give it a go. Of course, it was also launched in 26 other countries that Saturday, and I later read that a hacker group was messing with Niantic's server. Nice job, arseholes!
The pig of a day continued after the indoor BBQ with Per and I waiting around while the kiddies when on kiddy-rides in one of the streets away from the canal, and ended with us waiting around for everyone to meet up with us in the square so we could go back to the apartment with Johan and the (sleeping) twins. I let Per and Johan do whatever they wanted to do while I communed with my computer, happy to be doing something entertaining for the first time that day.
The weekend wasn't all bad though. We met up with Alex and Johan again on Sunday, but not for nearly as long, and the day ended happily with a bag of churros each as a treat.
Per then had to get through an extremely boring last week of work before his holiday started. There was no-one else working in the office, so I went in and ate lunch with him a couple of times, when I wasn't doing other things. Such as today. This entry was mainly typed while a repair guy was visting. A couple of days earlier, I had been emptying the dishwasher and realised that it was full of water in the bottom and wouldn't drain. I guess we're lucky it didn't flood! The guy was over around midday and spent about 45 minutes poking and prodding the machine but he wasn't able to find out what the problem was exactly, just that it wasn't an issue with the pipes or a kink in the hose, so it had to be the motor and there was a possibility that they wouldn't be able to find a replacement for it, so it might be time for a new dishwasher! Ooooooh! Fingers crossed!