Home
The week has been kinda uninteresting, hence the total lack of posting. One of our favourite receptionists at the Sports Centre busted her ankle in almost exactly the same way as I did last year, under almost exactly the same circumstances, and is now hobbling everywhere. My work is continuing: this week, I have been mostly implementing ring buffers in everything, as none of the fixed-length buffering code I hacked together some time ago actually works properly past the zeroth index. *sigh* I hate pointer arithmetic... So I'm not using it any more :)
Traditionally, I relax as far as possible on weekends. This means I tend not to get a lot done, but I'm unwound and ready to face the world again on Monday. Saturday this week may have been a record, even for me: I woke up past midday, and can't think of a single useful thing I did all day. Except maybe the washing. Hmm.
At least Justin was in town today. He, and I, and a few mutual friends had the chance to catch up, first over a pint in the Great Eastern, then later in Wagamama over tea. The food in Wagamama is pretty good (Japanese Cuisine, which ISN'T sushi, thank $foo), even if the wait staff are a bit dismissive. At least this time I didn't get stepped on, just nudged around a bit. And their chocolate fudge cake with vanilla ice-cream and wasabi sauce really shouldn't be that good.
...that was the old roleplay group, actually. Me and Justin, Al, Sam and Rhi: since Justin moved to Horsham, and one of us got involved with an SO, and the world got in the way... I'm not sure we're gonna meet too often now, and if so mostly as friends. There's nothing necessarily wrong with that, I suppose, even if a small part of me pines for Alex's Magical Tortoise, the Sensible Stealth Trousers and the other puzzling things that happened to our poor characters on a near weekly basis. Things move on, and I'm now aware of another roleplay group (coincidentally involving nearly all the same people, plus more) in the area to which I might wander at some point.
Guess we'll see.
In other news, my PC has been whining intermittently for a couple of weeks. Craig dropped in this evening, sat on my bed and talked for a bit, then stood up, handed me a washing-up sponge, and told me to wedge it between the machine and the desk. I did so. End of whine: 'twas a rattling case panel, it seems. I hate it when other people are right :)
2009/01/26 - Aoife (13:31)
Oh I love that chocolate wasabi cake!!! Mmmmmn.
*drools a little*
2009/01/27 - Hels (23:51)
Wagamama's doesn't actually serve Japanese food; it's more pan-Asian, and Japanese people would consider it distinctly Chinese or South Asian. People get confused because the name is Japanese (Wagamama means "greedy child" literally, but actually means "be good to yourself" which is rather nice). However, the wasabi cake is indeed fantastic (though you can get something very similar but much cheaper at Yo Sushi).
And don't you go knocking sushi until you've tried pumpkin and sweet potato korroke, which hasn't the hint of raw fish or seaweed and comes with a fruity dipping sauce. Oh god it's so good. I don't know why people dismissing sushi as weird and raw-fishy makes me so eagerly rush to defend the Japanese cuisine, but if you fancy giving sushi another try I shall take you a sushi bar; and if you really, REALLY don't like it you can just eat 5 portions of wasabi cake.
2009/01/28 - Pewterfish (01:44)
*thinks*
I suppose, yeah. I mean, I ate Japanese while I was there, but the menu wasn't exclusively Japanese...
Anyway, sushi. Well, I've tried it three times now, in three different places, and never been all that impressed. Granted, one time I was pretty badly hung over, but tried it three times and didn't like it? That's a recipe for not trying it a fourth, in my book.
Of course, you're quite welcome to prove me wrong, as and when you get back from the land of the flightless birds. If nothing else, because the "5 portions of wasabi cake" suggestion has merit.