My life stinks - and how to loose a weekend.

No, really.

It does.

Today we've encountered a small plumbing problem. The landlord has been and gone. A plumber will be here tomorrow. I've had a WONDERFUL time mopping up the stinking water.

We may even need a new bottle of bleach when I'm done.

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And how to loose a weekend.

On Saturday evening, I was having a quiet night. Around 8pm, expecting Ali home sometime soon, I hear a knock on the door.

Expecting to see Ali, having forgotten her keys (its got to happen one day) I find myself presented by a horrible visage.

Half the roleplay group standing there in the snow - all six inches of it. Shivering. I don't think I heard the first knock.

Which I found surprising. Visitors!

Still, fair enough. Invite in, try and find out what was happening. Turned out we were playing Exalted. Matt was on the way to pick up Ali. Just no one had told me.

Ah well. But because I didn't know we were playing, I hadn't built the random number generator I needed. I don't have 6*16 10 sided dice to roll.

Anyway, sit there and quickly run up a number generator in java - which was a bit of a challenge. I've never had to sit and code in a timed contest - or a "as fast as possible" thing. For added fun, you had 5 people chattering about everything from why PERL is a terrible language - (no, its not - its wonderful. You just need a to remember it'll do exactly what you ask - even if it makes no sense a all!) - to the merits of the new game called Band Hero.

Must remember to talk about Guitar Hero some day.

Anyway, we played. And played and played.

And at around midnight, instead of being sane like, well, Ali, the rest of us trooped over to PC Bang - a computer gaming establishment I've already mentioned elsewhere.

Anyway, after a couple of games of Dawn of War: Winter Assault (Good game). And few rounds a scenario on Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne. Called DotA-Allstars (and no, don't ask me what it means), I finally got the hang of it. Rather then being a liability, I was useful. It just took a while to get the hang of it...

Anyway, by the time we got out of there, got home (it was SNOWING!), fed the cat and got into bed, it was 6am in the morning.

Four hours later, at 10a, in the morning, I was...aware of what was happening and on WoW for the scheduled 5 man horde fun. I don't remember much of what was said or done. I made some notes on what I've got to write, but beyond that....the rest of the day is one biiiiiiiig blur.

Although...I'm fairly sure I didn't do anything toooo stupid.