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Frequency has been lacking, and moving backwards through time it would appear the only thing keeping me on the internet is PhotoFriday. I thought I'd try to be a bit more informative, so I'm getting back out there a whole day early.

The bathroom has come to the infamous 98% completion. The tile is all set and sealed, everything is hung, nailed or siliconed into place, and the entire thing looks like it belongs in another house. The missing peice is a mirror to hang over a new hole where a medicine cabinet used to reside. It could have been finished weeks ago, but I"ve been dragging my feet on the promise of a 2x convex mirror that I could get for an excellent deal. One the whole thing is finished, I'll have a pile of pictures, so I can show before and after.

I can remember vividly the switch from my renovations being the largest time sync in my life to another, completely different demon. It was a Thursday night.

Glen had been ranting the whole day about the new Oblivion he had played on his 360, and I, like a fool, fell for it hook line and sinker. I have been yearning for a good RPG stint since Fallout left me with a big gapping hole to fill. I learned that Bethesda had earned the rights to continue the Fallout franchise, and with that knowledge coupled with Glen's glowing reviews, I decided to find out what kind of role playing game these guys made.

As it turns out: The Crack Kind!

The game is engrossing. It feels a lot more like a sandbox game than anything else I've ever encountered. I know, from talking to Glen, that we are playing two completely different games. His strategies, and goals are different, and hence he sees a completely different part of the universe they have created for us. The game is very witty, easy to use, fun to play and is absolutely beautiful and monsterous. San Andreas had a big world to roam around in, but it pales in comparison to the detail they have placed in Oblivion. There is just stuff EVERYWHERE and the game uses the Havok physics engine, enabling you can interact realistically with just about anything. And, I don't think I can overstate, just how purdy this game looks.

When I as moving, I dumped out all my change to sort it. As usual, I snapped a couple of pictures during the process.

This is a nice, raw, untouched shot that I took back in my N65 days of shooting film. Just a simple consumer scan from London Drugs and now up here for PhotoFriday

Mark just recently shaved his head for his trip to India. When I awoke this morning I was puzzling what I was going to use for my Photo Friday image, as I was transfering the pictures off my camera, the smooth theme smacked me right in the face as this photo rolled by.

Today is the day that most people of European decent dress in green and have a couple of pints in the name of a Brit, while claiming to be Irish. I'm no different.

I'm down to Ceili's in my Irish Jersey, and I'm sure a couple of pint of Guinness are going to cross these lips.

This week has been frantic at work. I have a deadline next week, and I'm taking a few days off during the week, so I've been trying to get my work done before this weekend.

People that don't work in a programming field, probably can't comprehend the difficulty in estimating and finishing tasks on time. Our work is also quite foreign to them, as a simple bug, that requires a dozen or so keystrokes to fix could take weeks to find. Unlike trade jobs where you know how long it will take you to do something, an estimate for the time required to design, implement and test a system is a lot more soft. The last 10% of your project will take you 90% of the time. Experience helps, but the nature of our work means that you could screw everything up with a single character out of place, and thousands and thousands of problems can be fixed in one place.

Leading into the weekend, the mother unit is coming down to see her baby boy and help me with some tiling. My colour sence is pathetic, so I need some womanly advice on colours for my floors to make sure they go with my walls, and vanity. Black and yellow go together don't they? The time off, coupled with my family's ability to really tuck down and get stuff done ensure that my home will be entirely different by the middle of next week. I'll take some before and after photos to share.