Headspace

Had an extremely pleasant weekend. The issues that felt very pressing seem to have dissolved, we managed to settle them, together. Life is at it should be. So there.

We spent the weekend up north, with M’s family. Apr. six hour’s drive is a trying experience, but it is much more manageable if well spent, ie. taking it as a quality time for two, roleplaying most of it (of course I consentrate on driving, I can do both ) Today I’m tired but the depressiveness of last week gone, that too feels good. The time there was great. It was good to see this side of the family, easy leisurely time, chatting slowly and of course gorging on the delicasies that V kept laying out before us. On the father’s day, by some weird twist f fate I ended up making the coffee. Result was intresting, as I failed to notice that their measuring spoon wasn’t the standard issue, but a double. Well I know it now, and the coffee wasn’t that bad if you drank it my way, ie. with plenty of milk and sugar.

Some other family things too. As those who read M’s already know we took the wedding gift espresso-maker out and put it to good use. It was a true family effort we wondered around the coffee-shelf together, she read the manual and I hacked the first round, she made the second and the next day after more consultation with the manual, it was my turn again. The stuff produced is gorgeous, true European art. Sure there is a thing to the Japanese tea-ceremony, but the espresso, making a perfect cup of this drink of gods’ is every bit as much zen and the end-result, imho superb. We enjoyed the drinks together, consentrating on the smooth taste, the cremá on the surface, creaminess of the milky substance…

Shared bliss, nice comparison, as that is what special moments with one’s loved one are, at least in our family, especially about. Juho, I know you sooner or later end up reading this, thank you again for the lovely gift. Hope the description was revealing enough to you

In the weekend we also visited the just opened market with M’s mum. The idea was to shop for some necessary items for her, but we ended up buying quite a lot for ourselves too. How could we have helped it with the offers they had to celebrate the opening of the store. I say that we mostly got things needed, and they were all bargains.

We now have
- a new water-heater, much needed as the old one had developed a leak.
- I have good winter gloves, much needed because I didn’t have such things, only a bad circulation in the extremities.
- Flannel shirts for both of us, nice looking soft shirts.
- Children of Dune, DVD. This wasn’t necessary but it was cheap and came highly recommended.
- We both have portable CD/MP3 players. These were so cheap that it would have been a crime to walk past them.
-We didn’t end up buying a new TV there (even if we had noticed the need), but decided to give the matter more thorough thought and examination before making a decision. M’s parents gave us one of their old TV’s (newer and obviously much better than what we had) so this matter quite surprisingly solved it self.

Sometimes being a wee bit materialistic can be quite exhilarating.

We roleplayed a lot during the weekend (two long driving sessions help in that) and the Cyber-Tampere is progressing nicely. As I no doubt have mentioned here, the game is a re-heated one, a new spree on an old campaing that has been in ice. I had next to no notes of the old games (Which is in fact quite a lot for me…*groan*), neither of us remembered the old games in very much details, so we had a problem. The solution proved a very good one as the game is moving on again. It may have been a bit clichéid as I opted for, “You awake in a strange alley, your hair and clothes have soaked in the puddle you’re lying in. The things you do remember are…” and there weren’t many. No it’s gatherring momentum and speed. The character’s new version is functioning beautifuly… I heartly recommend the amnesia route, to all of-the-cuff-gms who have a tendency to forget details.

So this is it for now, I’ll return to fixing bugs in the code,…smiling.