Ho hum. After a few generally rather nice weeks, yesterday was a bit of a comedown.

Work was somewhat demoralising, in that ‘you finish something which you spent weeks on, did at least two nearly-impossible things in the course of, and were generally feeling pretty pleased with yourself about, and by way of reward you get to have a blazing row with a colleague about whether or not it was a worthwhile exercise in the first place’ sort of fashion. (I'm sure that happens to everyone now and again.) Also I missed an office pub trip at lunchtime due to an incautiously scheduled appointment to get my car fixed (again).

Decided not to beerfest, since I don't really enjoy it that much. I went on Tuesday night, which was a lot better than my usual attempts to go on Thursday and beyond, since all the beers that caught my eye in the programme were actually still available. But apart from that, it still involves a lot of uncomfortable sitting on floors, a lot of completely ludicrous crush at the bars, and it invariably rains us all into the inadequate tent every time I go; in every respect other than the good and varied beer, as a drinking venue, it utterly sucks. So I stayed at home and took out my bad mood by restarting Metroid Prime from the beginning and blowing lots of things up, which just about managed to lift my mood enough that I didn't go to bed still aggravated.

I hope today will be better, but since it looks likely that it will involve repeating yesterday's row in the context of a formal meeting I'm unconvinced so far.