And 'Home' Is Where?

Going back to my parents' house yesterday felt very strange.

I'd spent three nights in a row at my flat, cooking for myself on two of those nights, so being back there and having to follow that routine just didn't feel right.

Lunch was 'when lunch was ready', dinner was 'when dinner was ready' (and while we were watching The Day After Tomorrow, which actually had me holding my breath once or twice, despite the implausible plot and by-the-numbers characterisation). With my computer at the flat, there wasn't a whole lot to do while I was there.

Other than packing more toys, obviously.

I took the first opportunity today to get back to the flat... Did some laundry - the 'lights', but there isn't enough for either a 'white' or a 'dark' wash at the moment - and intended to vacuum in the lounge and bedroom... but didn't quite get round to that.

I'm taking my sketchpad back to the house when I return, so hopefully I can do some sketchy-stuff for that little game design thing. I have a shrewd idea what I want the girl to look like, and I'm keeping the original idea for the player character... Perhaps I'll get a little further with the monsters as well, as I've dragged out some of my videogame artbooks for inspiration.

I'm almost tempted to stay here overnight, and head to work from here... but the house is still better equipped for an early morning start.

Must remember to switch everything off, though... When I arrived today, I discovered I'd left the laptop's cooling board on!

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And back again...

Another half day at work (not because there wasn't much on - there's a deadline for my counterpart's team on Monday, but it's looking pretty ship-shape under the circumstances) this one was because we've had a lot of late nights recently due to poor sales performance and, frankly, it was too lovely a day to be cooped up in the office.

The fun planned for the evening panned out, but I had a lovely lunch at a riverside pub in Chiswick.

Having broadband at the flat is pretty darned good... Since I've been spending Friday nights at the flat for a good few months, I've been missing out on internet. Not so anymore... but I seem to be visiting the same few sites all the time, and there's often little or nothing new.

Annoyingly, now that I'm posting the Offline Blog entries, I realise I've done virtually nothing of what I'd intended to do with my 'downtime'...

About the best I can say is that I've come up with a couple of possible endings for that 16-year-old game of mine.

But, hey, superfast interwebs.

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Offline Blog #5

A fairly uneventful day (which is to say I just don't remember a great deal), but I got mostly up to date with all the web stuff, including the complete roll-out of the new page on all the websites about the show we seem to be involved in.

I was in a conference call/training session for an interesting bit of online software which allows its users to create e-mailshots. While it was all very interesting, I'm not going to be the one who does that kind of thing... I suspect it will be passed on to the Editors.

In the evening, my boss and I met up with an ex-colleague, recently back from a jaunt in Australia (which he described as "too far... in every sense"). He seemed to have enjoyed himself and, despite the obvious economic pressures and lack of jobs both there and upon his return to Blighty, pretty chipper about everything. A far cry from how he was about a year ago, when he was basically forced out.

Food was excellent - from a small Indian restaurant in south London - but, despite having a light lunch, I wasn't able to eat much of my meal, and came away feeling rather bloated.

Much of that passed as gas overnight...