Guilty pleasures

I know that really, I should have gone to OUSFG last night. After all, discussion meetings are one of the few things that I generally do get along to. But the thing is, I managed to pick up a network cable yesterday (that just fits - anyone want to swap a 5m cable for a 6m one?) and connected the new computer to the magical internet - yay! This, of course, lead to Alex installing Neverwinter Nights - one of the reasons we realised we really wanted a games machine was that it doesn't quite run on his laptop and by the time we'd got the game and both the expansions installed it was 8pm. We looked at eachother, we dithered, but in the end we thought what the heck! And I have to say that the game looks great on our new monitor and everything. I've ordered the new hard drive and tonight we're going to plug in the DVD burner and hopefully get the home network all set up! Maybe next week I'll make it to OUSFG.

Cassie and I are both getting stuck today - she's got her first immuneotherapy injection and I've got to go and get my depo-provera booster. Keep your fingers crossed for her.

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Well, one down, one to go. It's nice to see that the universe chooses to get it's own back on me in small ways - today is the one day this week that I cannot leave my bike at home and had to go out cycling at lunch so of course it's pouring. At least it was already started this morning so I knew to bring my waterproofs.

I forgot to mention in my last post that once Alex was well away with Neverwinter Nights I stopped looking on and did something I haven't done for, ooh must be more than a year. I went upstairs and got my violin out. I managed to get it "in tune" - i.e. the strings are a fifth apart. Whether the A string is within a gnats crotchet of A I wouldn't like to say. I was considerably rusty to begin with but looking through my music collection I gradually started to get back into the swing of it, my fingers remembering the patterns of movement for some of the pieces despite all the time since I last played them. I got rather lost in the whole thing and was rather surprised to discover that it was 11pm when I put the instrument down with aching fingers and shoulders - it can't have been later than 9:30 when I went upstairs and was probably closer to 9 so that's a pretty hefty practise. As always, I think to myself, yes, I will do this regularly again but who knows if I really will.