Return from Perth and New Year's Day
Jan. 1st, 2018 02:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tcpipManaged to catch up with lunch (Fremantle) and dinner (Perth) on the 28th with a number of old friends, including ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
darklion, strangedave, thefon, ariaflame, fred_mouse, grailchaser, Murray W., Andrei N., Bruce T., Jason F., and Michael J., Brian G, (and I'm sure I've missed someone...). The gathering was at two Italian restaurants which meant good food and in the latter case allowed me to attempt a few mangled phrases in their native tongue. The day also saw the collection of the last boxes and history of the MARS library for the RPG Review Cooperative, another 60kg of games. The last day in Perth included a visit to the Fremantle cemetery for the solemn moment to inurn Maria H's ashes. The last two days back at home have been spent formatting Supercomputing with Linux for the printers.
New Year's Evening was a quiet one at home, with a clink of glasses at midnight and that's about it. Inevitably the New Year brings into reflections of the ever-optimistic plans of the previous year. Whilst my natural tendency is to beat myself up over not achieving everything on the list, I should feel some degree of satisfaction with completing a good portion and few other things besides. After all the year has seen my get two books in production, including "a thirty-year joke" in Papers & Paychecks, attending no less than eight conferences (and presented at half at them), many international and interstate trips (finally I visit Paris), and some modest improvements in the various associations that I have responsibility for. Attending three funerals and having a friend develop rapid dementia were significant challenges in the year. As I get older it is inevitable this will be more common. I will, of course, engage in a more thorough review of 2017 and plans for 2018 in the next few days, but already I am planning not to do so much new, rather complete outstanding items.
darklion, strangedave, thefon, ariaflame, fred_mouse, grailchaser, Murray W., Andrei N., Bruce T., Jason F., and Michael J., Brian G, (and I'm sure I've missed someone...). The gathering was at two Italian restaurants which meant good food and in the latter case allowed me to attempt a few mangled phrases in their native tongue. The day also saw the collection of the last boxes and history of the MARS library for the RPG Review Cooperative, another 60kg of games. The last day in Perth included a visit to the Fremantle cemetery for the solemn moment to inurn Maria H's ashes. The last two days back at home have been spent formatting Supercomputing with Linux for the printers.New Year's Evening was a quiet one at home, with a clink of glasses at midnight and that's about it. Inevitably the New Year brings into reflections of the ever-optimistic plans of the previous year. Whilst my natural tendency is to beat myself up over not achieving everything on the list, I should feel some degree of satisfaction with completing a good portion and few other things besides. After all the year has seen my get two books in production, including "a thirty-year joke" in Papers & Paychecks, attending no less than eight conferences (and presented at half at them), many international and interstate trips (finally I visit Paris), and some modest improvements in the various associations that I have responsibility for. Attending three funerals and having a friend develop rapid dementia were significant challenges in the year. As I get older it is inevitable this will be more common. I will, of course, engage in a more thorough review of 2017 and plans for 2018 in the next few days, but already I am planning not to do so much new, rather complete outstanding items.
