h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Slept well and deeply - love the new job so much - please do not let it be a honeymoon period!

When I was in Antigua, I enjoyed a honeymoon period. It took about a month (of bliss) before I started noticing, little by little, the sand crabs, stinging jellyfish, tarantulas, poisonous centipedes, barracudas, and sharks (beyond the reefs). By the time I left, four months later, the "honeymoon" was definitely over.

You're almost certainly enjoying a honeymoon period on your new job (as with all jobs). What matters, of course, is how long the honeymoon lasts.

Or perhaps I'm just being stupid again. Hope it stays fun.

I hope so too Nick - hey guess what? In the first time since we have "met" we are logged on at the same time!

Good to see you're using the word "met" in quotes.

You mean to tell me that you check to see who's online? How do you do that? I've seen it done on one other page. Perhaps I'm too lazy or preoccupied to RTFM.

I wonder if we're still logged on at the same time?

well if you are there I am! So how are you? How is work and how is the dreamcast?

Work is pretty great. The company's share price could be doing better (for the sake of my stock options), but I'm still having fun. Perl programming is quite entertaining. If I ever get back into game programming again, I'm going to write all my data manipulation tools in Perl. HTML, though, is quite dull.

I, myself am doing pretty good. Not much of a social life, though. Being a single geek, I pretty much spend all my money on my home entertainment centre (it's become rather "swish" lately). I watch a lot of movies, play a lot of video games, eat when I'm hungry. You know, that sort of thing. I suppose I'm a bit boring, actually, but then, as I said, not much of a social life. Perhaps this is from living in the city. City people are so inward, and it infects you after a while. Or maybe I've always been like this. Who knows? I enjoy my leisure time nonetheless.

The Dreamcast is a very impressive piece of hardware, but I've only seen one really impressive piece of software for it thus far, which is Soul Calibur, the best fighting game around. But I've beaten the game with every character, opened up all the secret characters and all the hidden features. Now I'm getting hungry for something new and exciting, but there's not a lot of new games for the Dreamcast yet. Ah well, at least I have my DVD collection.

Being single in any city is hard - trust me on that one

I think the biggest problem for me is that I'm generally a bit shy. In the big city, a lot of people tend to misinterpret "shy" as "creepy". This doesn't help much.

I can see how it could be misinterpreted - but I think you would be surprised how many people would say they felt the same way.

*raises hand shyly*

It doesn't matter. I'm pretty much resigned to my geek-dom. One day I'm gonna get a house in the suburbs. Then I'll get a dog (perhaps a basenji). I can't have dogs in my apartment, and I totally heart dogs (as you probably discerned from my web page).

You mean, like Vibs, for example?

*shyly* Yes!

Stop it, Vibs. You're creeping me out.

You see? You see? *runs away sobbing*

Oh, I'm sorry. Here, you can have some of my candy bar...

No thanks, my mother told me never to take sweets from strangers.

Nick is not a stranger - he is Canadian! There is a subtle difference you see!

Yes. You see, Vibs, we Canadians are nice people. So when I offer you some of my candy bar, you can rest assured that it's not laced with anything other than chocolate. And maybe nuts. Or perhaps raisins (Mmmm, chocolate covered raisins...). Oh, now I'm hungry.

Rumour has it (there she goes, butting into conversations again) that Canadians are indeed nice people - I must admit to not having seen any contrary evidence so far...maybe slightly gullible for buying a games console that runs under Windows, but still, no-one's perfect

(My appologies, I can't resist having a dig at Bill Gates at, well, every opportunity that presents itself)

Back to drawing my maps, I suppose...*sigh*