celticdragonfly (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
celticdragonfly) wrote2007-10-26 04:38 pm
celticdragonfly) wrote2007-10-26 04:38 pm
Entry tags:
- bicycles,
- fun,
- games,
- motorcycle,
- portal
Decompression day
Today is so far proving to be a very satisfactory decompression day.
Which I *needed*. Monday was driving all over doing errands. Tuesday was various disasters including Jamie flooding the bathroom. Wednesday was Jamie's ARD meeting, then an hour of dealing with Walmart and clothes shopping for kids, then taking the kids to Kids' Club in the evening. Thursday was too damn much driving all over town - across town, back again, halfway out, back again, all the way out, back and more to dance, back home again - I started at 8:30 in the morning, and had a couple breaks at home, but didn't get to stay here until about 9 pm. Whew.
This morning's motorcycle ride was great fun, and look!
A lot of today has been occupied by the game Portal totally eating my brain. I was watching![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fordprfct play it some yesterday and being totally floored and not thinking I could do it, but today I could. I think it's because he'd instantly see the layout and then just start moving, so I never got to get oriented on it. Once I could look around at my own pace and get it, I was solving the puzzles just fine. Which makes me feel good, since it's all spatial problem stuff. Well, and timing. Some of the video-game moving stuff is hard, but I don't have much experience with that.
The bike we got through Freecycle is getting fixed up for Maggie, and we'll start teaching her to ride it. Mine needs to get fixed up, but that will have to wait.
Which I *needed*. Monday was driving all over doing errands. Tuesday was various disasters including Jamie flooding the bathroom. Wednesday was Jamie's ARD meeting, then an hour of dealing with Walmart and clothes shopping for kids, then taking the kids to Kids' Club in the evening. Thursday was too damn much driving all over town - across town, back again, halfway out, back again, all the way out, back and more to dance, back home again - I started at 8:30 in the morning, and had a couple breaks at home, but didn't get to stay here until about 9 pm. Whew.
This morning's motorcycle ride was great fun, and look!
A lot of today has been occupied by the game Portal totally eating my brain. I was watching
fordprfct play it some yesterday and being totally floored and not thinking I could do it, but today I could. I think it's because he'd instantly see the layout and then just start moving, so I never got to get oriented on it. Once I could look around at my own pace and get it, I was solving the puzzles just fine. Which makes me feel good, since it's all spatial problem stuff. Well, and timing. Some of the video-game moving stuff is hard, but I don't have much experience with that. The bike we got through Freecycle is getting fixed up for Maggie, and we'll start teaching her to ride it. Mine needs to get fixed up, but that will have to wait.
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*evil grin*
I want a RED one. Just so it will clash with my hair.
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Well, yeah. What would be the fun of it otherwise? A moped was good enough for getting back and forth from home to my college classes back in Lansing, but it'd be pretty frustrating here in Texas.
I want either silver or blue. Unless they ever have a purple one.
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I've been seriously considering buying a used one for the portion of my commute from home to the parking lot where I catch the train to work. As gas prices rise, the parking lot fills even faster in the morning...
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