2018-06-08
Busy all day at work. Rushed out in the morning to buy a birthday present for
Eli; Pokemon pack reduced from $80 to $30. Girl at the games store thought I was
there for Magic cards (there’s just been a new release).
Heads-down all day working. Quick break at lunch for meatball pasta and wine
with The West Wing, then back to the grind. No time for HackTile—picked up
Jack from Eli’s party (Eliza and I met Dzung walking home from the train station
on the way), then back to a warm house to recover with a cognac and order Thai
delivery for dinner, which was delicious with a beer. Then snuggled on the floor
under a blanket with the kids to watch Black Panther. Made popcorn. After the
kids had been put to bed Dzung and I had a cuppa and played Letter Tycoon. She
won on points. Ended the night reading in bed. A real family Friday.
2018-06-07
Long, productive day at work, finishing the last of the work before the end of
the current sprint, and culminating in a late conference call to New York. So no
HackTile, apart from a few ideas about how to improve the camera system to deal
with multiple cameras and arbitrary aspect ratios.
Made “bashy pork”, aka Japanese port katsu curry, for dinner. Proud to learn
that Eliza is in the top 50 maths students, of around 350 in total. She’s really
made a great start to high school.
Gardeners came today, and I returned a misdelivered package of cat food to our
next-door neighbours. Amazing what you can buy online these days. Dzung out with
April and Mary for lunch; I had onion soup and cheese on toast while watching
The West Wing. Zelda book was delivered, which Jack loved. He wet his pants
during class assembly rehearsal today; first time in ages.
Ended the day watching the second half of “Game Night” which Dzung and I started
last night.
2018-06-06
Busy day at work; got a lot done, and also managed to get the HackTile refactor
finished to the point where everything is running once again. Nice to have
abstracted out an entity manager, a camera manager and an input handler,
improved object state and lifetime management, and cleaned up a lot of the code.
Still much more to do, but progress being made!
Plan to finish the day with a bit more work on my day job, and then perhaps
watch a movie or play some games tonight. Dzung is going to be cooking spaghetti
and meatballs, but I must admit I’m still pretty full from the curry laksa we
ate for lunch.
2018-06-05
Back to the grind after the long weekend. Cold and rainy. Dropped kids to school
and did some grocery shopping at Garbo, then back home for a productive morning
of work before a brief call with Will and a steak lunch with Wil. More work in
the afternoon, then made bangers and mash and watched an episode of A Series of
Unfortunate Events before putting the kids to bed.
And, partly due to a chat with Wil after lunch, I got my mojo back and did some
HackTile work. Not much, but enough to get my head back around it and make some
progress. The last part of the refactoring is writing the entity manager; I hope
to do that over the next few days to get things back up-and-running.
May need to visit Boffins to get a good C99 reference.
2018-06-04
Sleep in. Dzung off to pick up kids from their sleepover, then I took Jack
grocery shopping after a late breakfast of scrambled eggs and strong coffee.
After lunch (Dzung made ramen) we went shopping for a new desk for Dzung’s
office (no purchase yet), then back home for a long session of Letter Tycoon
(cold and rainy day, so indoor boardgames are perfect). Dinner of leftover
tortillas and soup, followed by a session of Kirby Star Allies. Kids to bed, and
Dzung and I finished the night by watching “I, Tonya”. What a lazy WA Day!
2018-06-03
Beautiful morning. Eliza off to tennis training. Jack and I reading over a lazy
breakfast, then searched for (and found) Dzung’s lost Kindle. Picked up Lilian
and Eliza and headed to Dim Sum for family “brunch”. Beautiful sunny day eating
outside at 8 On The Point. Went back to Van and Kiet’s and walked the kids over
to the new adventure playground near the stadium, where they spent a happy hour
building a cubby house.
Back home for a rest, then dropped the kids to Finlay’s for a sleepover. Dzung
and I out to meet up with Annie and Elaine for a dinner at Garum, Guy Grossi’s
new Perth restaurant. I thought the food was great, although not all of us
agreed; there was a general mood of dissatisfaction with everything, which put
somewhat of a damper on the evening. Ended with a brandy and a few more
chapters, and, as you may have guessed, no HackTile.
2018-06-02
Sleep-in and a leisurely outdoors breakfast in the brilliant sunshine. Still
feeling bad. Jack reading Calvin and Hobbes, which he discovered in my
bookshelf, while looking for something to do other than playing on screens.
Usual Saturday chores of clothes washing and taking the kids to karate. Faith
and Yoshiya were there; had a long chat with Faith about their recent trip to
Japan and her promotion at the ATO. Grabbed sushi, seafood chowder and crusty
baguette for lunch on the way home, and relaxed afterwards on the daybed,
reading Finders Keepers (I finished Mr. Mercedes this morning).
Philae over at 6pm to babysit the kids; Dzung and I went to Long Chim for dinner
and then watched “Behind the Barricade” at the Concert Hall. Home to bed. Zero
progress on HackTile.