Snow Bored

I’m getting bored with the snow. I’m also getting bored with every news report leading with the story of how bad the snow is. I don’t actually need to be told this. I can find out how cold and slippery it is just by going outside. 

I’ve been trying to find activities that warm me up. Here they are, with notes about there usefulness:

Marking Software Engineering coursework

Absolutely useless. There were not even any really bad designs that would make me boil with indignation.

Driving Home

While the car itself got toasty warm after a mile or so I spent the entire drive in a cold sweat wondering if I was the only person on the road aware we were driving on ice. By the way everyone drove so close to me I reckon I probably was.

Playing Uncharted

Useless.  Unless you count the effort involved in restraining myself from throwing the gamepad at the wall after being killed by one of those really nasty goblin type things that keep coming after me with crossbows.

Watching “The Red Dahlia: Above Suspicion” on ITV

Pretty useless. Certain amount of warming anger about the way that the master criminal was tracked down by the expert police team simply by having someone ring up and say “It was him!”. Otherwise no good for keeping warm.

Playing Wii Sports Table Tennis

Actually worked quite well. Even though I lost.

Windows 7 God Mode

The internets are alive at the moment with discussion of the newly discovered ‘God Mode” for Windows 7. To take part in the fun, create a folder with the name:

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

The folder magically becomes a “one stop shop” for all the Windows 7 control panels. I don’t think it lets you do anything you couldn’t do before, but it does put lots of useful things in one place.

Paper Review

I was up at 6:15 today and out onto the frozen roads to review the papers for the local BBC radio station. It was actually great fun although I’m not sure I could manage to do it every day. Everyone was very bright and chirpy at 7:00 am, which is not the kind of thing I could manage on a long term basis..

The centre of Hull at 7:55 am.

Back at Work

Today is officially “The Most Depressing Day of the Year (tm)”, what with the end of the Christmas and New Year break and a long wait to Easter.  At least the office was nice and warm when I got to work. What better way to start the new year than with a big pile of marking….

Actually, I’ve found a good way to banish the start of years blues. Play Turn it Up by Pixie Lott very loud. Works a treat.

End of Christmas 2009

Put the Christmas decorations away today. We hate doing this, although I reminded number one wife that putting them away now is the first step towards decorating for Christmas 2010.