The plan for today had
been to go for a rather long walk, if for nothing else to wear out
"Furry Face TM". But I woke to see
that the weather forecasts had been right. Heavy rain was in full
flow. Whilst it's quite possible to dress for the weather and carry
on regardless, I didn't fancy several miles in the rain. So we
postponed our plans for another time.
Mind you others went
ahead with walks today. One brave band did the eight mile trek around
Pluckley that we did yesterday. They must love it. As must those
brave souls who did the Ashford 10K road race.
Social media made my piss
boil today. One of the old chestnuts was doing the rounds - reading
several friend's statuses it would seem that apparenlty Facebook was
going to sell everyone's personal details to the highest bidder
unless you copied and pasted some viral drivel and fiddled with
settings. As ever it was completely groundless; these rumours always
are. But what got me was the amount of people posting in response who
were boasting that they didn't know how to copy and paste. And
adjusting settings was clearly in the realms of rocket science or
brain surgery.
Would anyone boast that
they can't read or write? So why do so many people feel that computer
illiteracy is something of which they should be proud?
As the rain continued I
played Candy Crush Saga all morning, then we went round to Dan and
Cheryl's for Sunday lunch. It has to be said that Cherly boils up a
particularly good Sunday lunch. And trifle for pudding too before we
settled down to watch telly for the afternoon.
For all that I lead a
very active life, sometimes I like to slob about with family
Yesterday I mentioned
that two of my recently created Wherigos hadn't been found. This
morning I had an email to say that one of them had been found. I was
pleased about that; in the Wherigo I program a downloadable doobrey
which when installed into your SmartPhone guides you from one
localtion to the next; only letting you move on when you have solved
certain puzzles. Any failure to solve the conundrum means you are
stuck and cannot progress. Simularly any stuffing up of the
programming on my part means the poor chap who's downloaded the
doobrey is stuck and cannot progress. Even though I field-tested
both, I knew the solutions to the puzzles. it was good to find that
one of my Wherigos has actually worked when tested in anger.
Mind you the other one
hadn't been found by lubch time. And it was rather worrying to
receive an email from someone who has got part way through and can
proceed no further. I sent him a little hint, and then mid-afternoon
I got a second email from someone who had braved the elements and met
with failure. Then I had some phone calls from people struggling with
the thing.
With er indoors TM"
off bowling I took "Furry Face TM"
for a walk round to Frog's Island to field test this Wherigo again.
It seemed I had stuffed up. But just as I was getting started I met
four friends who had just completed it. They had taken rather longer
than I had hoped people might; but I suspect that I didn't take long
when testing as I knew the plot. With this one now found I know that
the software works. That was a relief. There's no denying that my
meagre programming talents were stretched to the limit in coming up
with these Wherigos. I suspect troubleshooting would have been be
beyond me.
I then settled myself
down in front of the telly for a "Jeeves-and-Wooster-a-thon"...
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