Rain Days & Bike Ways
Mar. 23rd, 2011 11:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aWe've had rain, rain, rain for weeks now. On the bright side, despite a claim that it was going to rain straight through this week, we've actually had a lot of sunshine this Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday (with dabs of rain here and there).
I went somewhat unexpectedly into EndGame tonight because of the nice weather. I'd been planning to say home, but when I saw the (somewhat) clear sky and (bits of) sunshine I decided I much preferred to get out of the house for a while.
It stayed nice until I got there, starting raining about 2 minutes after my arrival, but was dry again by the time I came home. And, it was a wonderful ride home. The street was very wet and the wind was either behind me or had dropped altogether. As a result it was a very easy ride home from Oakland. I often felt like I was riding on that good white concrete because my bike just glided the whole way. Mind you, when I took a turn I sometimes felt my tires really skittering. So that's the good and the bad of friction-light riding.
Got home and as I always do now, I popped open the garage door with my opener. And I came to realize how much I've come to like that nicely-lit rebuilt garage. It's such a change, from the black hole it was until this year, to a pleasant haven awaiting me at home.
And then I went into our foyer which we've also rebuilt less dramatically--mainly by moving Kimberly's desk out of there and putting in her white bench and a coat rack. We've also got a shoe rack, but I haven't taken the time to assemble it. But in any case, the foyer feels like a pleasant part of our house now too, whereas before it was just that ugly crap-filled room we went through on our way outdoors.
Programming for Skotos continues. I've got a feature-complete Modern Art: The Card Game at this point, which I'm bug-fixing and improving. It's scheduled to be finished next month. I need to get going on better AIs pretty soon, but the project is looking very manageable.
Meanwhile, I'm making good progress on my really-this-time final draft of Designers & Dragons. Every day, I knock out a few more comments from people. I even got one done tonight, spending half-an-hour on Pagan Publishing just now.
Once I get to the weekend, I'm going to see if I want to create some new mini-histories to pull the company count up to 90. Or maybe spend some time on histories of Glorantha and Tekumel that I considered and never got to. But the actual required work, which is the comments, is looking pretty casual, so I'm feeling good. (Mind you it's still hours of work, and editing is the thing I hate most, but there you go.)
How good am I feeling? Well, I wrote a journal entry on something more than the book!
Poor Kimberly, not feeling so good. Another cold! I'm hoping it doesn't jump to me in the next days.
I went somewhat unexpectedly into EndGame tonight because of the nice weather. I'd been planning to say home, but when I saw the (somewhat) clear sky and (bits of) sunshine I decided I much preferred to get out of the house for a while.
It stayed nice until I got there, starting raining about 2 minutes after my arrival, but was dry again by the time I came home. And, it was a wonderful ride home. The street was very wet and the wind was either behind me or had dropped altogether. As a result it was a very easy ride home from Oakland. I often felt like I was riding on that good white concrete because my bike just glided the whole way. Mind you, when I took a turn I sometimes felt my tires really skittering. So that's the good and the bad of friction-light riding.
Got home and as I always do now, I popped open the garage door with my opener. And I came to realize how much I've come to like that nicely-lit rebuilt garage. It's such a change, from the black hole it was until this year, to a pleasant haven awaiting me at home.
And then I went into our foyer which we've also rebuilt less dramatically--mainly by moving Kimberly's desk out of there and putting in her white bench and a coat rack. We've also got a shoe rack, but I haven't taken the time to assemble it. But in any case, the foyer feels like a pleasant part of our house now too, whereas before it was just that ugly crap-filled room we went through on our way outdoors.
Programming for Skotos continues. I've got a feature-complete Modern Art: The Card Game at this point, which I'm bug-fixing and improving. It's scheduled to be finished next month. I need to get going on better AIs pretty soon, but the project is looking very manageable.
Meanwhile, I'm making good progress on my really-this-time final draft of Designers & Dragons. Every day, I knock out a few more comments from people. I even got one done tonight, spending half-an-hour on Pagan Publishing just now.
Once I get to the weekend, I'm going to see if I want to create some new mini-histories to pull the company count up to 90. Or maybe spend some time on histories of Glorantha and Tekumel that I considered and never got to. But the actual required work, which is the comments, is looking pretty casual, so I'm feeling good. (Mind you it's still hours of work, and editing is the thing I hate most, but there you go.)
How good am I feeling? Well, I wrote a journal entry on something more than the book!
Poor Kimberly, not feeling so good. Another cold! I'm hoping it doesn't jump to me in the next days.