Goodbye expensive metal and plastic things.

Over the weekend, both Clara and I cleared our loft space, ready for the oncoming roof replacement. Among the countless empty boxes, camping equipment, dusty gaming books was a huge horde of old PCs and related parts. It had always been my intention to go through the stuff, identify the good stuff so I could sell it or give it away. It didn't happen. Instead, everything was dumped at the local tip. It's a terrible shame but I'm not going to let it nip me, I'd had years to sort it all out, but it was never worth my time.

Red 5 Going in (to the second bag)

Noah's main birthday present came out, on Saturday morning. Lego X-wing!

"All the pieces matter" - Lester Freamon (The Wire)

"Stay on target" - Gold Five, Davis Krail (Star Wars: A New Hope)

Roof Replacement

On Monday we found out that the work is delayed until next Monday. It's not a big problem for us, although we are eager to get the work done.

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Winter Weekend

Saturday Pleasant enough. We enjoyed a late morning, I handled mum's shopping delivery and we visited the city centre in the afternoon. In the evening I made some progress with the Shamrayev rebuild project:

Sunday Mum's fall, last week has kept her bedridden. On Sunday she finally managed to get downstairs. Tracy and Adrian are back from Ron's funeral. We met Tracy, Rose and Jake at Medieval Mayhem, while Adrian replaced mum's door lock.

In the afternoon I was hoping to play this new Amazing Adventures game with Noah, Rose and Jake but the excitement of being together made any kind of organising a gathering around a table all but impossible.

Noah got his character created, and I knocked out a setting map, in about 20 minutes.

Spinning

Time to catch up.
Good weekend. On Sunday we had one of those stay-at-home days. Not going out all day is still a revelation -- playing games during daylight hours, amazing!

So far, this week
My Netflix got hijacked. I received a warning that my password had been successfully changed. WTF WTF WTF! I was still logged in to the service via my phone, I could see a new email address associated with my account and two new profiles had replaced my own set of profiles. They were situated in Spain, judging by their IP addresses and new language assignment. I got straight onto customer support via their VoIP contact system and immediately grabbed my account back. Very damned strange. I changed all my passwords and set up 2-step verification on my email. I wish I could identify where they captured my password - was it my recent use of Discus, the video editor I trialed or maybe an infected mobile device? Damn, I hate not knowing.

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Loving it! I knew I would but…

Falling (SERIOUSLY) behind

So much for making this blog a daily routine -- it's been too easy to let even a 3-minute daily commitment slip. So here is my quick attempt at a catch-up. When last I wrote, the world was gripped in snow and ice. Here we are a fortnight later and it's relatively warm.

This past weekend we visited a new place. Anglers Country Park, near Wakefield. Nice playground, nice book-themed wooden sculptures, otherwise this is just a fairly unexceptional walk around a lake. The boys enjoyed it a lot - that's good enough for me, I guess.
Shamreyev Rebuild
The reconstruction of my old degree show project has reached a point where I can cast it off into the great folder of pending work in the cloud(s). I've already moved back to the long-term project of building a ship or two from Chuck Gannon's books -- probably the Andrew Bolton-class ship that appeared at the beginning of my nearly disused Lightmage blog.

Tonight
Far Cry 5! Horrah. There's always a buzz of excitement when…

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