Slow Ride

A better night's sleep last night - hopefully Monday and Tuesday this week will turn out to be just a blip on the graph. It certainly helps when the sun is shining though, even if it is that time of year when it shines directly into my eyes as I head up the link road towards the motorway.

One to one session with the boss to review my objectives from my last appraisal, and he still seems happy with what I am doing, so I must be doing something right. I am gradually taking on more responsibilities for different parts of the system and writing specs/mentoring the other developers rather than necessarily coding things myself. A slight change of emphasis, but I still have the opportunity to do some hands on stuff with the web development and reporting tasks.

One useful trick that somebody showed me today was to bite the end off of a chocolate covered biscuit bar and then one of the other corners, and then suck coffee through it. The effect is like eating a pre-dunked biscuit with a semi solid chocolate coating, if you can imagine that. Yum. It was a generic digestive, although I think that a Penguin style biscuit would work too. Apparently the Tim-Tam is the New Zealander's weapon of choice for this purpose. Anybody else heard of this or willing to give it a go?

In games news, I can report that multiplayer Rock Band on iPhone is excellent fun. It's quite nifty hearing the same song coming out of two different handheld machines at the same time and the gameplay is perfectly suited to a quick blast like this. We couldn't work out how to play Eliminate via local Bluetooth though, but my record is still good with me actually winning a match with nine kills compared to the second place player with three. It's worth a download, if only to see the technical achievement of a multi-player FPS deathmatch on a phone.

A slog through the traffic home, but at least I now have gingerbread syrup to go in my frothy coffee - hurrah!