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Gaming Updates, Academia Updates
Sep. 14th, 2018 05:40 pmIt's been a busy week on the gaming front, with the most important even being the launch of tickets for RuneQuest Con Down Under III. It's shaping up will with guest speakers, panels, auctions, gaming sessions, larps, and all the Kryal Castle events, plus lashings of food, but I am of course in a mad panic until the requisite tickets are sold (I am hoping to hit the half-way mark by the end of the weekend). In addition to this there was our regular RuneQuest game on Sunday, plus my Exalted China on Thursday - and I finally caught up on a few of the write-ups which I had hitherto been neglectful. One very nice RPG-related event was a youngster in the US naming some dragons (FB link) after me as they were designing a world for Megatraveller.
Today was a class for Advanced Linux and Shell Scripting for HPC, and next Friday will be the same for Parallel Programming. I have also revived two old enrolments which I didn't follow through with a couple of years ago - one for the University of Otago for a Master in Higher Education, and one for the University of London for a Graduate Diploma in Economics. It's been a few years since I've picked up a degree and I really want to do these. I have this funny feeling that around my 60th birthday when I have ten degrees, speak eight languages, and have a financial buffer of several year's income I'll have sufficient self-confidence to seriously push myself forward in the workplace. In the meantime I just soldier on, hope that my ridiculous levels of productivity are even vaguely noticed by the powers that be, and have forlorn hopes that the people who make architecture designs are the people who have to work with the decisions. For what it is worth, went to the NTEU post-campaign celebration for our new agreement which was mostly a victory (direct action delivers the goods) at the Potter Museum of Art, which appropriately had an relevant exhibition on unions in the workplace.
Today was a class for Advanced Linux and Shell Scripting for HPC, and next Friday will be the same for Parallel Programming. I have also revived two old enrolments which I didn't follow through with a couple of years ago - one for the University of Otago for a Master in Higher Education, and one for the University of London for a Graduate Diploma in Economics. It's been a few years since I've picked up a degree and I really want to do these. I have this funny feeling that around my 60th birthday when I have ten degrees, speak eight languages, and have a financial buffer of several year's income I'll have sufficient self-confidence to seriously push myself forward in the workplace. In the meantime I just soldier on, hope that my ridiculous levels of productivity are even vaguely noticed by the powers that be, and have forlorn hopes that the people who make architecture designs are the people who have to work with the decisions. For what it is worth, went to the NTEU post-campaign celebration for our new agreement which was mostly a victory (direct action delivers the goods) at the Potter Museum of Art, which appropriately had an relevant exhibition on unions in the workplace.
