Ian
Ian was very nice and drove me to a faraway place to get my television repaired. I'm glad that I don't drive, peak hour traffic is awful, parking meters are expensive, and finding parking spots is hard. I'm very glad I have my $100 bicycle which gets me home-to-work in 12 minutes with no pollution, no expense, no parking hassles, and with a bit of healthy exercise. I'm still upset there aren't any more hills between home and work, because I'm getting flabby with the short trip.

Ian's also much become much better at rockclimbing than me, so I'm incredibly jealous.

Sofie
Sofie (Ian's partner) is going to come and work for Schoolsnet in a couple of weeks. This is good, because Sofie appreciates good beer, whereas Ian and Benni don't.

Work
Moving tomorrow, so I'm not expecting to get much done. Scotty tells me that I haven't been forgotten in bugland, and that one day the promised land will come. That's okay, because I've got a bunch of bugs I'm going to be delegating anyway. :)

Natedawg
Nate's practice at Half-Life is paying off. He's become incredibly good at Counter-Strike, probably because he plays it very single night of the week. He whipped our arses hugely today, which was pretty humiliating. To make things worse, I'm going to be broken up from my old squad (Dancer and Ben) as part of the move at work.

Nate also came climbing with us yesterday. He looks pretty spunky in my tight blue shorts.

GnuCash
GnuCash is good. Saved me money again by keeping a good hold on my finances. I'm most satisfied.

Finance::Quote
Benni has joined the Finance::Quote team and has offered to do fun stuff with the web-page. Thanks Benni! (I suspect the real reason is that he wants to write Advogato diaries but feels he needs open-source experience to do so.)

Diplomacy
Both Schoolsnet games are up and running now, and it's been lots of fun to watch. I'm still surprised at how eager everyone was to join and how quickly the games were started.

Work
Moving to the new building at the end of the week. Hopefully we might have air-conditioners there, as I'm finding the temperature in my office quite a bit high for my liking. It also looks like I'll get a beautiful view as well.

It looks like I'll be sharing an office with Scottp, which will make things interesting. Not because there's anything wrong with Scott, but because he's so valuable and in demand, so I expect there'll be a lot of traffic through the office. I've also been known to generate a bit of traffic with people reporting bugs, CVS issues, and other things.

Justin shall be posted at the door to try and stem the tide of people. He's rehearsing his line now -- "None shall pass!".

Gwen
Gwen's been a little angel. I came home last night and found that she had washed all the dishes. Washing dishes is my most hated chore, so I'm very thankful to Gwen for this favour. It looks like we'll be getting along well. She even said that she liked my cooking.

Ian
Benni calculated how much Ian is paying for his new car on a "per week" basis. It's about twice what I pay in rent, although I don't think he's planning to live in his car.

Ian's been claiming that the real reason he purchased the car is that there are better seltbelts for me in the back-seat. (When there are five people in Ian's car, I usually volunteer to sit in the middle at the back, between any cute girls that might be in the same car.) While I think this is very kind of him, I'm surprised that he didn't just give me $20,000 and keep the change for himself. I'm surprised at how generous he is.

Finance::Quote
Finance::Quote 0.18 is now out the door, and available and advertised via CPAN, Freshmeat, Sourceforge, etc. Now that we have a reasonably stable library out the door we can start working on new features. (Like currency conversion or a decent OO re-write.)

Ian
I must apologise for saying that Ian purchased a ludicrously expensive lockable sun-roof on wheels because his old car lost that 'new' smell. Apparently Ian's car was a couple of years old when he purchased it, and he had been spraying it with a can of "new car smell" to keep it smelling new.

I now know that Ian purchased a ludicrously expensive lockable sun-roof on wheels because his can of "new car smell" ran out. *grin*

In Ian's favour, he did climb the Green 15 out at hardrock. I'm very impressed.

Diplomacy
The first game starts shortly. We almost have a full compliment of players signed up.

Finance::Quote
Just received a letter informing me of a PHP version of Finance::Quote's yahoo function that should be released in the next couple of days. This is great news, as I've had a few requests for a PHP interface to Finance::Quote. I've pointed the relevant people at each other and hopefully they'll come to very happy arrangements.

I'm also thinking of writing a short guide on "How to submit a patch for Finance::Quote", as it seems to be a semi-regular requestion, and I most certainly do want the patches.

I'm still going to try to release 0.18 today, although I'm not certain of when I'll get the time to do it.

Housemates
Jacinta's sister, Gwen, is moving in with us today. She's got herself a job in Melbourne and will be staying with us for a while. She's also applied for a job at Schoolsnet. Gwen's very nice, so I'm happy that she's moving in with us.

Diplomacy
Wow! 13 people at work have told me they most certainly want to play in a Diplomacy, and I'm sure that another one will come out of the woodwork somewhere, giving us 14. That's enough for two standard games. This is excellent, it means I can play in one and GM the other. I'm very much looking forward to this.

Ross and Humpy also seem to be looking forward to the games very much. I think they'll show themselves to be excellent players, which should make for an interesting game.

Work
Back at work after a nice relaxing holiday. I don't really want to be back at work, I was just getting used to being on holidays.

Finance::Quote
Intend to move version 0.18 out the door tomorrow.

Ian
Ian's just spent some ludicrous amount of money on a new car. His old car worked fine, the only problem seems to have been that it had lost its `new' smell.