It’s Monday. Let’s do this!
For the first time in years I gave my name to do some overtime on Saturday. It was quite the day.
I fell asleep early on Friday night so getting up wasn’t really difficult. I took my time getting ready, figuring I’d be biking in (November not being over yet). When I went to leave I found my back tire was flat. Doh! And it was already too late to take the bus. Double doh! With nothing really to lose, I took a chance and tried inflating it. It seemed to keep its air so off I went, but I brought my air pump with me just in case it went flat while I was in. All in all I was about ten minutes behind the schedule I had set for myself. Not too bad all things considered.
I got in and started doing files and let me tell you I was rusty. I’ve been a resource officer for the past two years so I haven’t just sat down and reassess files in a while. It did give me a chance to sample my own handiwork. The macros I coded to help our employees work pretty well if I do say so myself.
To thank us for coming in on a Saturday our managers brought coffee, juice boxes and treats for a coffee break at about 10am which was super nice of them. I really appreciated the gesture.
It turns out I gauged how much I’d get done pretty accurately. I finished the last file on my desk just before 1pm, right when I said I’d be done for the day.
I went out to my bike…no keys. I’d forgotten them on my desk. Back inside, no keys. I started to panic. What’d happened to them? I couldn’t have locked my bike without them so it stood to reason I had them that morning. It turned out, I’d put them in my coat pocket that morning, which I never do. They normally go in my front right pocket. Whew! Crisis averted! My tire wasn’t flat so I biked home.
My mom and I had cancelled our usual game night on Friday because of the (incorrect) weather forecast so we had it on Saturday instead. We played my other Secret Santa gift, Lords of Waterdeep which I really enjoyed. I was worried it wouldn’t be my mom’s cup of tea, but she took to it pretty quickly and asked to play again so yay to that! Lords of Waterdeep is a resource management game set in the Forgotten Realms setting of Dungeons and Dragons. Each player takes on the role of one of the eponymous Lords of Waterdeep and sends out agents to gather adventurers (wizards, warriors, clerics and rogues) to their taverns to send them out on quests in pursuit of the almighty victory points. There are several base locations that you can send your agents to and as you collect money from your quests you can open other establishments which you and the other players can send agents to. If you send an agent to your own establishment, you get the normal resource from that establishment. If another player sends an agent to your establishment, you get a kickback. You can also play intrigue cards that give a special one-time effect. In a two player game, you have 4 agents to assign each round (at the beginning of the fifth round you get a fifth agent and at the end of the eigth round the player with the most victory points wins. It plays really quickly. We had time to play four games before all was said and done. I look forward to playing again.
On Sunday I took it easy and tried out some new digital board games I bought on Steam: Splendor, The Witcher Adventure Game, Zooleretto and Letter Quest. Of the bunch, Splendor and Letter Quest were the most addictive. I also leveled up my bard on DDO to level 13, so despite the overtime I was able to get my full weekend of nerdery in.
This morning, my back tire was flat again. I pumped it back up and was able to get to work on it. I brought my air pump with me again just to be sure and it was a good thing I did because my tire was flat by the time I finished. Today’s my last biking day of the year so I’ll be waiting until next spring to change the tire.
In theory I have two more overtime Saturdays ahead of me. We’ll see how they go. But for now that’s all for me. Have a good seven and we’ll do this all again next Monday. Carja V.