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Jul. 30th, 2006 11:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadgerThe Grrls are back tomorrow--yay! I'm takign the afternoon off to tidy up and then get them at the airport.
I had a very nice two days: I played games with Peter and Bryan and two of Peter's chums (it turns out one of them works in another part of my division at SAIC--too weird!) and had a swim in P's pool, then P and B and I watched The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. Really a wonderful retelling, just as affecting as when I first saw it in the theater with C. I got all teary at several points but I think I concealed it from my manly chums.
Then today B&P and I went to another chap's to play a Napoleonic miniatures game. Poor P had his usual horrible luck but managed to keep my third of the French army very effectively pinned down with a small force of Russians. Bryan very capably defended the French center with a load of Bavarians and was actually pushing the Russians back when the game ended. After that I came home and did massive amounts of rearranging and tidying which had no immediately visible effect but left things somewhat less cluttery IMO. It will soon be time to finish mondo cleaning and begin the great "eBay, used bookstore, and throwing things out" project.
I also bit the bullet and got a new colour printer. I tried several more times to ressurrect the not-very-old Canon and failed, so I got an HP printer/scanner/copier like the one Bryan loaned me with which I was very impressed. It will still be backup to the HP b&W laser, but this way I can replace both the Canon and the crappy scanner that almsot never worked with one device. And it wasn't so expensieve that I won't mind disposing of it for next to nothing in a year.
OK, past time for bed. Going to try to get back to my planned schedule this week. Rupoert has been languishing!
I had a very nice two days: I played games with Peter and Bryan and two of Peter's chums (it turns out one of them works in another part of my division at SAIC--too weird!) and had a swim in P's pool, then P and B and I watched The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. Really a wonderful retelling, just as affecting as when I first saw it in the theater with C. I got all teary at several points but I think I concealed it from my manly chums.
Then today B&P and I went to another chap's to play a Napoleonic miniatures game. Poor P had his usual horrible luck but managed to keep my third of the French army very effectively pinned down with a small force of Russians. Bryan very capably defended the French center with a load of Bavarians and was actually pushing the Russians back when the game ended. After that I came home and did massive amounts of rearranging and tidying which had no immediately visible effect but left things somewhat less cluttery IMO. It will soon be time to finish mondo cleaning and begin the great "eBay, used bookstore, and throwing things out" project.
I also bit the bullet and got a new colour printer. I tried several more times to ressurrect the not-very-old Canon and failed, so I got an HP printer/scanner/copier like the one Bryan loaned me with which I was very impressed. It will still be backup to the HP b&W laser, but this way I can replace both the Canon and the crappy scanner that almsot never worked with one device. And it wasn't so expensieve that I won't mind disposing of it for next to nothing in a year.
OK, past time for bed. Going to try to get back to my planned schedule this week. Rupoert has been languishing!
