a good week, good progress, good food, good photo

[kareina]

I now have another good photo from the gaming con a week ago. During the con three of us decided to walk to the local grocery store on Saturday morning to pick up ingredients to make some naan bread, since the room in which we were playing was the home-ec classroom at the school and was fully equipped with ovens etc. The walk turned into a proper quest adventure--we had to cross a bridge, where we must have scared off the troll, because we were unmolested, but when we reached the store it was only 10:30, and it wasn't open yet--apparently it was a holiday, so they were going to open at 11:00 (which is when they open on Sundays), so we continued on past the store, rolling dice at cross street to determine which way to go, and we found a small stand of woods, complete with a tree-fort.

It was necessary to stop and climb into the fort and play in the forest for a bit, during which the camera came out .



As we left the forest and passed through the village on our way to the store we even saw fireworks (read: a circular saw cutting through a roof from the underside, generating an impressive amount of sparks) and returned to the con site only one hour after having left, where we baked lots of yummy naan to share with folk.

This week at work (my second week on the new job) went very well. I got my new computer, I installed some of the programs (I typed "problems" the first time I tried that word) I need on it, and I finally managed to sit down and finish writing that paper I was working on when in Australia in July. It has now been sent back down there to my erstwhile adviser for his comments. Hopefully he likes it and it will need only minor edits before we can submit it.

This weekend we went no where, and it felt kind of good to be at home. Well, mostly at home. We did drop by a friend's housewarming, and we had folk dance today, as usual. But we had enough energy left at the end of the weekend that tonight after dance I mixed up some home made noodle dough and built and baked a lasagna while he baked and assembled a cake. Lunch this week is covered!

Question for those of you who read this on Facebook: They have announced that as of the 22nd of November the automatic cross-posting from other blogs and journals to FB will cease to exist. At that point I will need to either copy-paste what I type here into a note on FB or post a link to this. Do any of you have a preference as to which I do? Both would require that I remember to do it, and no promises that I always will, but...

Comments

[stitchwhich.livejournal.com]

For me, "new programs" does = "problems"! I'm glad it's not that way for you!

[kareina.livejournal.com]

well, it may yet be--I will have to learn some high-end 3D modeling programs for this job. So far I have only used the word processor, spreadsheet, pdf reader, and other basic tools on the new computer...

[corvideye.livejournal.com]

I have no access to FB and don't want it... so I hope I'll still be able to read your posts over here!

[corvideye.livejournal.com]

...just realized I misunderstood the phrasing of your question--how LJ connects to FB, not vice versa.

[kareina.livejournal.com]

Indeed--I have no wish to give up LJ--this is a good place to actually connect with friends. However, I have noticed that I get more comments on my posts through the FB cross posting than I get here (which is, no doubt, due to the fact that I know about 7 times as many folk there than here), so I am disinclined to quit posting there when the ability to do so automatically ends. I rather like the feedback that tells me someone actually read what I typed.

[fjorlief.livejournal.com]

Since LJ is my mode of choice, and I check in here almost daily, it matters little to me what you do on FB... FB is an annoying necessity, LJ is a delightful and peaceful haven

[kareina.livejournal.com]

I have a strong preference for LJ--especially since FB came up for people to do the silly quiz thing on the content here is orders of magnitude more interesting. However, I know far, far more people there than here and I find that I am much more likely to get comments to the notes that are cross-posted there than I am here, which is why I ask those folk. Not everyone I know on FB reads my notes, but if one were to judge by the number of comments alone I would say that more people read my words there than here.

[merlyn-gabriel.livejournal.com]

I read both daily so no matter where you post I can see it. I like FB for ease of contacting ppl and short msgs etc... here is the place for longer stories.