So I went to
the airport to pick my aunt who is staying at my place for a week
before heading back to Hong Kong. Her flight was delayed so she wasn't
on the plane that I was expecting. I waited an hour then went back to
work. She did call me when she arrived. Apparently her initial flight
from Peru had been delayed by a couple of hours. Now, theoretically I
was supposed to get an email which I didn't get. But this would have
been a lot easier if I had gotten the full itinerary instead of just
the last flight of the trip.
My car is making this funny noise. Sort of a squeaking noise when idle
and it revs up a bit when I'm moving. Not really loud but you can hear
it when the windows are down. I think it's probably a loose belt and
therefore relatively harmless for now. I have a bunch of stuff that
needs to get looked at when I get my 120k tuneup, including a couple of
minor recalls that I haven't done anything about.
Watched the 49ers game against the Chargers. It's the last exhibition
game so it doesn't count, but the 49ers lost badly, again. Now they've
lost all their preseason games, which may or may not matter. When the
49ers were good they used to lose lots of preseason games but were fine
once the season started. Today's 49ers aren't like that – preseason is
a good barometer of the regular season. Part of it is the lack of
experienced veterans, who tend to take it easy in preseason.
They don't look awful. It's just that they make lots of penalties and
mistakes. The offense is very young so it does look ragged. Defense is
the core of this team and it comes and goes. Sometimes the defense
looks good and other times they're getting burned in the secondary or
giving up lots of running yards.
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Apparently
there's a holiday on Monday which I forgot about. That gives me an
extra day to get my life in order. I can't believe how lazy I've been
lately, concentrating on GURPS and reading Hellboy. I got a bunch of
stuff that I need to mail out and stuff I need to put up on eBay and
lots of work to do. I always go into the weekend thinking that I'm
going to finally get cracking on these things but then I get caught up
doing other things. Sigh.
So Netflix hasn't sent me anything this week. Actually, they claimed
they sent everything on Tuesday to arrive on Thursday. First point is
that it took them an extra day of turnaround and the second point is
that I still haven't received the DVDs after two days, which is most
unusual. Hopefully I get the DVDs on Friday so that I can at least use
the ample weekend to watch them. If I was the suspicious type I'd think
that this was some sort of Netflix ploy to slow down my DVD usage. But
one week does not make a pattern.
Too bad I didn't clean up before Kooma came because she's been cleaning
since she arrived. Didn't even rest from the plane trip. It's nice and
all but I feel bad about it. Still, if that's what she wants to do I'm
in no position to stop her. She also made dinner which was good, though
she does tend to make more or less the same meal every time. We'll see
how it goes this time.
I'm almost done converting MechWarrior 3E skills to GURPS 4E. The last
big problem is that Technician skills don't convert cleanly. MW has
overlapping Technician subskills which don't make much sense. I'll have
to think of a rational system that integrates to the BattleTech repair
rules. I think all the other skill conversions went quite well.
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