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[lnr]

Pleasant evening yesterday with dinner in the pub with Sion, Jan, rjk, Owen M, and Art. Nice pudding, mmm, and the discovery that mild is only 3.5 sins per half pint definitely made my day when I looked it up later on. Then over to relativity for ceb's birthday party, at which there were nice people and excellent cake. And also a game called tantrix which was rather nifty. And very silly balloons.

Spent most of today doing sod all. Reading Alastair Reynolds novella Turquiose Days (having read Diamond Dogs yesterday). I think when I've finished it I can justify starting the next Harry Potter, given I've read several books inbetween. Ken Macleod is probably going to wait until the gap between books 2 and 3. Also spent time playing tantrix online at www.tantrix.com and I fear I am becoming an addict already. They have solitaire puzzles, which I bored of quickly, or you can play against the computer, or have a go against real other people. Requires java but seems to work OK from here, though the game windows seem to open in random sizes and need enlarging before it's playable. Stuffed chicken breasts in the oven for dinner at the moment, with roast new spuds and mashed swede and carrot. All out of sins for this week but I know I can manage OK on weekdays without, so hopefully still on track for another good week. Will aim to get an earlyish night again tonight, otherwise I think I'm going to struggle to face work in the morning.

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I love it when a plan comes together

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

The British Open Table Tantrix championship will be taking place at MSO Cambridge (http://www.msocambridge.org.uk/) from the 3rd to the 5th of May, along with competitions in lots of other nice games. (I understand that their Scrabble tournament is even full of nice people rather than folk who know OSW in several different directions.) I plan to attend, though I'm not sure whether they're going to need me to help out with running the thing (which may be why I'm promoting it so) or whether I'm going to get to play in any of the events this year. Given that you're in Cambridge already and you like Tantrix, would you care to combine the two? I don't believe the standard in the Tantrix event is particularly scary, if that's a concern.

Please might I come and see you and j4 and lots of other nice people who I don't already know but if you like them then that's good enough for me while I'm there?

Re: I love it when a plan comes together

[lnr]

Well, I've no idea if I'll have got bored of it by then, or still be useless, but I'll certainly think about it.

And it would indeed be nice to meet up at some point.