simont | (no subject)

Whew, my GameCube still works.

I booted it up last night for the first time after it crashed the other week; whatever was bothering it then appeared to have been only temporary, and it now seems to run fine. This is a relief, since it's my diversion of choice while I'm airing the house out at night, because I can play it without the lights on which means the open windows don't attract legions of insects.

In other news, hmm, what have I been doing? Went to Strawberry Fair on Saturday, rather against my better judgment since it's been entirely tedious in recent years. The purpose of going was to track down a particular T-shirt stall for drswirly, which turned out to be absent; the rest of the fair was exactly as tedious as we'd feared so we left it in a hurry.

In a break with tradition, pizza yesterday was at Zizzi's, a new pizza-and-pasta place a few doors down from our normal Pizza Express. On the plus side, the food was very nice. On the minus side, it was very loud, the seats were uncomfortably hard, the waiters really couldn't get their heads round the amount of iced water eleven Camgeeks can drink, and the service was slow. On the neutral but somewhat odd side, the garlic bread starter was the same size as a normal pizza, and the pizzas larger still; this would have been less puzzling if the other starters and the pasta dishes hadn't appeared to have perfectly normal portion sizes. Having one starter three times the size of all the others just struck me as weird.

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We have a Zizzi's both on the Strand (where I work) and in Canary Wharf. They're all the same - yummy food, crap waiters. If you're not in a hurry it's good though. I especially like their chicken and red pesto pasta.

It did take some time for us to convince Pizza Express of the ammount of water that we consume...