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Home Alone, Coursework, Gaming
Dec. 3rd, 2013 07:37 amAfter the better part of ten years or so pretty much living in each other's pocket (a strange saying, it's almost a little on the naughty side) ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
caseopaya is taking a three-week holiday; first to western Germany to meet up with various relatives that she hasn't seen for about twenty years or more, and then on to England and Scotland. Which leaves me "home alone" for the period, not quite an accurate description as there is the cat, the rabbit, the guinea pig, six rats, a turtle, and the fish to keep me company. OK, so the latter two aren't exactly social, but it does explain why extended holidays for both of us can be challenging.
Whilst I have a list of things to keep me occupied for the time, this first week won't have much headway as I'll be typically exhausted coming home from work - it's training week where I'll be conducting the better part of 25 contact hours with various post-graduate scientists (and up to lecturer level) teaching them command line and scripting with Linux, HPC and PBS job submission, and MPI programming - and with the recent addition of R and Octave programming. Apropos such matters, tonight is also the main meeting of Linux Users of Victoria, where Stewart Smith with be speaking on issues around continious integration.
Getting even more tangential on Sunday our regular gaming group played Hacker (with the expansion), possibly the only game derived from a Secret Service raid. Gameplay is an entertaining and dynamic, plus it is educational, a semi-realistic game of computer networks and hacker culture albeit with some quirky early 90s features. This Thursday will be starting the second part of the Call of Cthulhu epic, this time with the classic Masks of Nyarlathotep, well recognised as one the greatest RPG stories of al time.
caseopaya is taking a three-week holiday; first to western Germany to meet up with various relatives that she hasn't seen for about twenty years or more, and then on to England and Scotland. Which leaves me "home alone" for the period, not quite an accurate description as there is the cat, the rabbit, the guinea pig, six rats, a turtle, and the fish to keep me company. OK, so the latter two aren't exactly social, but it does explain why extended holidays for both of us can be challenging. Whilst I have a list of things to keep me occupied for the time, this first week won't have much headway as I'll be typically exhausted coming home from work - it's training week where I'll be conducting the better part of 25 contact hours with various post-graduate scientists (and up to lecturer level) teaching them command line and scripting with Linux, HPC and PBS job submission, and MPI programming - and with the recent addition of R and Octave programming. Apropos such matters, tonight is also the main meeting of Linux Users of Victoria, where Stewart Smith with be speaking on issues around continious integration.
Getting even more tangential on Sunday our regular gaming group played Hacker (with the expansion), possibly the only game derived from a Secret Service raid. Gameplay is an entertaining and dynamic, plus it is educational, a semi-realistic game of computer networks and hacker culture albeit with some quirky early 90s features. This Thursday will be starting the second part of the Call of Cthulhu epic, this time with the classic Masks of Nyarlathotep, well recognised as one the greatest RPG stories of al time.
