Just an ordinary Saturday
Most weekends a visit is made to our local markets, which have several shops that often get business from us. This afternoon I went there to pick up some bulk food items and some food for lunch plus the newspaper and a chai latte. I was in the markets for less than half an hour. I went to put the purchases in the car and a guy came up to me to tell me he and his cousin saw another car sideswipe the front of our car and drive away. He had the number of the license plate which he wrote down for me. It’s not terrible but it is obviously scraped and will likely cost a bit to repair. Sigh…contacting insurance on Monday as they don’t seem to have any place to call on the weekend, aside from roadside assistance. It’s not urgent so I will wait.
I was planning to go to the gym after eating lunch but then remembered the dogs needed exercise. We walked for over an hour and both dogs had slowed down by the time we neared home…not enough to stop them barking at someone walking on the footpath along the way though. I didn’t think I’d gotten that much exercise but hours later my bottom is quite sore so I guess my glute muscles got a bit of a needed workout. I don’t use the treadmill much at the gym these days so I guess a walk was a good idea.
We had our Saturday evening family games again with Lego Lover choosing two games.We played Scotland Yard, which I’ve had since I was in college and which we always love to play. The Scientist played Mister X and was doing well but missed a detail that left him open to capture and was caught by Game Fanatic. Just before I’d stupidly made a comment saying it was going to be difficult to win…then both the boys managed to get right over to that part of the board. Just goes to show my lack of ability in strategic planning…at least compared to the rest of the family. After that we played Castle Panic and had some really bad luck at the start that ultimately led to us losing the game.
Game Fanatic had downloaded the first version of Silent Hill onto our Playstation 3 and he and his dad played that for a couple of hours before the Scientist went to bed. Apparently they managed to solve a puzzle already, so must be well on their way in the game. I stayed there for a while and did some random stuff on my iPad and Lego Lover was in his room until after the Scientist went to bed. I brought up our current favorite online game at Geoguessr.com and was trying to work out a few locations from the Google street view images when I came upon a location obviously in Canada. As Lego Lover is still madly obsessed, I saved it for him to work out. I’d already found out the general location but he enjoyed navigating through the small city and working out all the details. We carried on working out several more of the images and found ourselves in Latvia, Poland and Australia along with the city in Quebec. Lego Lover and I really like doing this game together. We may fight a lot and get annoyed with each other at the methods we each use. But together we often work it out pretty well. Most impressive was Lego Lover getting within a kilometer on the Latvian location in a port city. We’d not found enough information to work out streets and he just dropped the marker and was almost right there. He also did quite well at a more random marking to locate an image from a West Australian road location. There were limited clues and he got within 75 kms of the correct place. I am really amazed at some of the details he picks up on the some of these road images that helps pinpoint locations.
Now it is rather quiet here, aside from the music playing on Spotify…which is also fairly quiet. I need to be off to bed so I can wake up at a decent time tomorrow. It’s gotten a bit cooler here and getting up is difficult when it feels so chilly in the mornings.
