Real life Project Gotham Racing

Sometimes some things are so tempting. In oxford one of the roundabouts is having gardening work done and they have a ring of cones around it that they use to block off some of the traffic. Unfortunately every time I go round this roundabout I think about the style challenges in project gotham racing. In these you have to skid round corners as stylishly as possible without hitting any of the cones on the track. I have to reists the temptation and I don't think I will if any of the songs of the game's soundtrack came on my stereo while I was on the roundabout.

Its true, computer games *are* dangerous. :)

roleplaying and money

There's ups and there's downs in my life at the moment. One of the ups is that I am really enjoying the new RPGSoc society game, victoriana (http://www.sorsegods.co.uk/victoriana/). The GMs seem to be working really well and I have been feeling that I always have a lot to do. The only trouble is I want to do more plotting with people between sessions but there isn't that much to do. On the other hand this is a wonderful wonderful change from my usual thing of having lots to do between sessions and not a lot to do in session. Its a great game and I can't help but look forward to playing it more.

I've also been talking Cam stuff a bit. Talking to sally and sorting out some stuff which is fun. Cloud and Martin have gone and got drunk in the pub and I have sorted her some temp crash space too I believe.

The money side of things is one of the downs in my life. I worked out some back of the envelope maths to see what my finances looked like and it wasn't pretty. I calculated that I had about 200 pounds disposable income. Per annum.

Hey, at least there is some disposable income I thought to myself and then five minutes later somebody mentioned gross/net and I realised that my calculations didn't cover tax. It is possible on the plus side that it might *not* come to more than 200 pounds but i doubt it will be much less than that.

On the other hand it isn't quite that bad. I've done a fair bit of work on a website recently that I haven't invoiced for yet so I do have more money than that really. Not much but enough tht I am not really really down about it. Just a little bleugh.

On the plus side I have been doing very well since I hit reduced spending mode earlier in the year. I spent a fortune out tonight which equated to about 8 pounds. That's my expensive night out these days. :)