Munden's Bar

Friday I saw SOAP, as I mentioned, but just thought I should add that holding_pattern was looking stunning! I had just been into Game Workshop, and thought that if all the gamers in there knew that such a hot miniature painter was walking past she'd have been mobbed by fan-boys, and grendel_khan would have had to use his ex-bouncer skills for body-guarding!

I spent most of Satyrday trying to get Apache to talk to Tomcat properly with virtual hosts, I still don't quite know why what I did works, while what should have worked didn't. Still, it's working now, and I will now have the basis for some serious development work at home.

In the evening evie_fae had me over to try and fix up a TNO phpBB issue. She had very nicely arranged to bribe me with a meal from jarratt_gray and whiskey, with the condition that the whiskey would need to be drunk with jarratt_gray.

But php is an ugly thing, and it's more than an hours work to even try to find out what a single page of the code is supposed to do, let alone what it's actually doing. php is to scripting what bad c code is to programming. In other words, when you see some it makes you think it will be faster to rewrite the whole damn application from scratch in a real progaming language, than to try and modify the existing code. So no fix yet, but I'll look some more. Uggh, I feel dirty after looking at such obfuscated and poorly structured code. Goes against all software development best practices.

(Shh, see the more I go on about it, the more whiskey I'll get )

jarratt_gray's Thai green chicken curry was extremely spicy and yummy, especially primed as I was by the piratical whiskey evie_fae had picked up. After dinner there was creativity all around as evie_fae put together her corset for a fitting and jarratt_gray gave a commendable impression of a graphic designer.

Tell ya what though, you can bribe with me corset fittings as well if you like! evie_fae is going to look superb in this one!

After making us guys drool at the posed cosrsety-goodness, evie_fae proceeded to walk all over us playing "Buzz". She was just too fast on the buzzer! And got what I believe was an all time high score in the seven thousands! And no, we were not being easy on her! Maybe I let her get away with eyelid-batting once during the Point Stealer round, but that made no difference to the final result, what's 250 points when she's two thousand ahead and the last round questions are worth 500 points each? As jarratt_gray said, next time we'll have to make sure she drinks more Baileys before taking her on!

Though it was worrying just how much the host, Buzz, was coming on to her during the game!

Walked back home down the hill and tried to call seraphs_folly but didn't get the numbers right, so went to bed, and had a marathon dream session, which I'll try to write up a bit.later.

Got up and shortly thereafter received an email mellific to say try calling again, which I did, and in the morning light managed to figure out the esoterica of international dialling, and so managed to chat to my love for almost half an hour. It was great to hear her voice and hear about her adventures in Japan and to hear that she was missing me, just as I was missing her.

That was the only problem with both Friday and Satyrday night, the others had their partners with them,.and mine won't be with me until November. (all together now! Awww!) Still it's happy making to know she's there, and I think it must be some sort of love when seeing other couples makes you happy for them, not jealous, and happy knowing that you have someone too, even though you won't have the physicality of her presence for a month or two.

Anyway I should go to bed now even though I really want to talk about drowninghail ripping some poor kids face off in superlate's game! :)