That was a rather good weekend, all told :-) And it was just what I needed after a really excessively stressful week (largely but not exclusively due to difficult worky stuff).

On Saturday morning I managed to get one of my computers sensibly running an Amiga emulator, which meant I was able to resurrect the other set of computer games from my childhood which I had fond memories of. Well, most of them, anyway: some of them don't quite work, since UAE appears to have faithfully emulated the original Amiga's extreme flakiness when loading from floppy disks, which seems to me to be above and beyond the call of duty but there we go.

On Saturday afternoon I learned a new skill: lnr came round for a visit and to have her hair cut with my clippers. I'd let her talk me into this in the pub on Thursday, and the next morning I'd woken up, felt a beery feeling in my head and thought ‘oh gods, what did I promise last night?’. (Cutting my own hair with clippers is trivial since it's a same-length-all-over buzz cut; doing something complex to someone else's was a lot more scary.) But as it turned out it went very well; the instruction video that came with the clippers turned out to know what it was talking about, and the result was a haircut I could look at and feel reasonably proud of.

After that general day of accomplishment and achieving things I'd never done before, I was probably due some karma, and it duly turned up in the form of Owen and Gareth coming round to play board games and me losing spectacularly at Puerto Rico, Princes of Florence and Domaine in rapid succession. Still, it was a fun evening even if I did lose everything…

So, back to work this week, where my stressful task is almost over. Hopefully, therefore, my stress levels should drop steeply throughout the week.