Edited by author 25-09-2004 09:29
Visited Dad this morning, it is a really nice day! Pretty warm, it feels like the hot season is going to have some sharp teeth this year. Hayfever's got me though.

Had a nice dinner at Anne's last night, and visited Steveg beforehand and showed him his namesake. The hospital reckons he'll come out on Saturday.

Lucky us got three Posscards from the British Isles today, dated the 17th, 18th and 19th of September (respectively), they haven't taken all that long to come here to Australia! Not long at all. The covers are "London by Night" "The Tower of London and Tower Bridge" (Outrage, anyone?) and "The Study in Scarlet" from Beeton's Christmas Annual. Very nice they are too, thanks Posskin!

Boardgames I suspect tonight. I wonder what we'll play?

I suppose I'd better go and plan this new drawing.

*** Some hours later ***

Well, the new drawing is going very well, NOW. I've had to scratch out bits of it several times. It is a rare example of something that works better when I try to do the same thing on the computer with the graphics tablet than when I do it with pencil and paper. Worked very well for me, probably my very first serious design that has been totally worked on digitally. Oh well, we'll see how successful it is when I put it up for sale...although it is designed with a very select, and specific bunch of people in mind, so sales may not actually be an indicator. We shall see. I'm gonna get one 'cause its cooooool!

Tonight, Gary came over and Rob and he and I played History of the World. In this game, if you are in the lead, your competitors cheerfully hand you the rottenest cultures they can manage to try and hamstring you. Silly me kept in the lead for most of the game, and Gary and Rob kept handing me lousy cultures for my purposes. However because some scoring advantages came with this it definitley was not all a bad thing. These are two competent, cutthroat players with strong mathmatical skills, which is darned handy in History of the World (whereas I tend to play a more wholistic, instinctive and intuitive game. I hope.) So I am very proud to have ended up with the scores below

Leece: 209
Rob: 206
Gary: 194

Thank you for the game guys! You fought a good fight.

Richard & Clara popped in and watched the last epoch and
then went off to the movies.

My mother has just watched a documentary on ABBA. She is now converted and the first ABBA albumns this house will have ever seen are now being seriously considered.

ABBA must've been good, I guess. I didn't go for them much when they were big and I was at the susceptible "music is everything" stage when they were, but I still can sing along confidently to just about any ABBA song. Earworms, that's what they produced. Annoyingly catchy. :-) They were just so, so...*nice*.

Mind you, Chess and Hubba Hubba Zoot Zoot, I really enjoy. So it just goes to show. Very talented people. Good on 'em.

Leece all tuckered out now.