Misadventures

Well, that's another trip done and dusted, with far too much coach travel. Almost three whole novels got read, which was an amazing feat, but almost nothing else could be done over a cumulative twenty hours on the road, including delays and some chaos. At least they were good books: 'Kentucky Thriller', 'Three Hearts and Three Lions' and 'God Save The Mark'. 'Three Hearts And Three Lions' is especially fascinating, but we'll get to that eventually. It was a nice trip, which included an excursion to Liverpool. In impersonal events, there was a good game of 'Mystery Of The Abbey', which is a more fascinating game than I suspected, and one which reopens a very odd quandary. You see, this deduction game had a misprint in its last edition which I enjoy playing with rather more than I suspect would be true with the unbotched rules. What to do? It's one of the odder first world problems you can bump up against, isn't it? Oh, let's just stick with the wrong rules and see what happens...

It's a wacky world, but sometimes it gets all kinds of wackier. Today, for example, in a burst of courageous idiocy, saw the first end of holidays board game extravaganza for my students, which was quite the rowdy affair and reminded quite forcibly of just why I'm ever so pleased to not be trapped in a classroom. There's no escape! Aaack! And there's no way to keep anything on the tracks. All you can do is hold your nerve, ride the bucking bronco of fate, and try to keep some plan up your sleeve to finish the time. Usually, said plan is Pictionary, but you never know when it might be something else. Sigh. I really thought 'Jamaica' would work out brilliantly. There's no justice.

Thankfully, with that trip and the party done, all the grand enjoyable disruptions are now over, and it is time to get back to simply living life for a few days. The value of that simple thing is not to be underestimated, even when you still have a grand woodworking project and the looming start of the second year of Open University studies on the horizon. Oh, what fun it will be to only be juggling two over-projects! What happy times! 'Wordspace' may even finish! Wowsers! We can only hope!

More will follow in the coming days, as the relief fully settles in. Cowabunga, dudes!

O.