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Dec. 9th, 2017 10:00 pm1. I have continued to do Parkrun each weekend, including last weekend when I got held up doing something else and didn't arrive at the park until fifteen minutes after the run started. I'm quite pleased with myself that I never seriously considered giving it a miss, and just figured that I might as well walk the course anyway even if I didn't get counted as having participated, or get an official time for it. As it turned out, the timers were still on duty at the end of the course when I got there, so I did get counted and did get a time (although since it was counted from when the run officially started, it was significantly longer than usual). I wasn't even in last place: near the end, I overtook a family with a small child who was lagging behind. The weirdest bit was actually near the beginning: the first kilometre and the last kilometre of the course overlap, so as I set out fifteen minutes late, I kept getting passed by the people who take the "run" part of "Parkrun" seriously and finish the course in twenty minutes.
2. The washing up briefly got on top of me again after the storm; having the power out for a few days threw me off my stride. I'm getting it back in hand, though.
3. I have completed the storyline in Invisible, Inc. in Expert Mode. While I was doing that, the DLC with an extended storyline was going cheap, so now I'm trying that out. I've just got up to the bit where the extended storyline diverges significantly from the original one, and about to start the first completely new mission. Another interesting thing about the DLC is that it includes four new playable characters, the top agents of the organisation that preceded Invisible, Inc. -- including Invisible's founder and her right-hand man, both of whom were already playable characters from the original game. So here I am about to do a mission with six agents of whom four are older and younger versions of the same two people.
4. The improv group is still going, and did another performance recently as part of a local festival.
5. When I'm sitting in the office at work, I occasionally hear a mysterious sound of rushing water. Water rushing through pipes, that is, not water gushing out into the open. Except that this week there was a day when I did hear water gushing out into the open, and when I went to investigate I learned that the control box for the building's garden watering system is on the wall just outside my office, and one of the hoses had come loose. So I went and told the building manager about the hose, and now I know what the mysterious water noises are about.
2. The washing up briefly got on top of me again after the storm; having the power out for a few days threw me off my stride. I'm getting it back in hand, though.
3. I have completed the storyline in Invisible, Inc. in Expert Mode. While I was doing that, the DLC with an extended storyline was going cheap, so now I'm trying that out. I've just got up to the bit where the extended storyline diverges significantly from the original one, and about to start the first completely new mission. Another interesting thing about the DLC is that it includes four new playable characters, the top agents of the organisation that preceded Invisible, Inc. -- including Invisible's founder and her right-hand man, both of whom were already playable characters from the original game. So here I am about to do a mission with six agents of whom four are older and younger versions of the same two people.
4. The improv group is still going, and did another performance recently as part of a local festival.
5. When I'm sitting in the office at work, I occasionally hear a mysterious sound of rushing water. Water rushing through pipes, that is, not water gushing out into the open. Except that this week there was a day when I did hear water gushing out into the open, and when I went to investigate I learned that the control box for the building's garden watering system is on the wall just outside my office, and one of the hoses had come loose. So I went and told the building manager about the hose, and now I know what the mysterious water noises are about.
