Just busy... But that doesn't mean I don't have a bunch of stuff to share with you all, I think this break from posting started with the wife and I going on Holiday. We went to Wales just as the Rugby World Cup started, have you ever been English in Wales as the Welsh beat England at Twickenham?... Not a good vibe towards the English, that's all I'll say.
But Wales was great, so great, we're going back next year.
One thing that struck me however, was that I heard people speaking Welsh, and not just on touristy things, down the coop, people speaking Welsh. I've not been to Wales since the late 80's, back then as a kid I don't remember hearing anyone speak Welsh, it sort of wasn't done, at least not done in front of us English, lest the Welsh themselves feel self conscious or they avoided trying to make it look like they were talking about us.
Luckily now, speaking Welsh seems to be in vogue, and so I heard that strange, lyrical, twitter a lot. Down the pub, down the shop, at the chippy... We only had one place where I was conscious that we were being talked about and they took the piss, and that was the chippy, where they over charged the wife for cod & chips, and were commenting on it in Welsh.
For you see there are some words, which just translate, and whatever the woman actually said, what I heard was "how much shall I add onto this English fish?" And the reply was "double it"... Hey ho. She paid, she enjoyed the meal, whatever.
In programming circles, I've continued to be using Python in anger, moving from an Android based app to creating a new website for the company using Apache and mod_python. This has been a learning experience for me, and I have lots of tutorials in mind to add to the blog.
Gaming I've been playing two major titles, Payday 2 and WarThunder, the later of which I finally bought a premium set the German 109 G2 and some little tank, so there, finally a premium owner, more about that later.
And I've been playing a game called "Human Resource Machine", again more about that later.
Finally, I've been helping the father-in-law debug his model railway track... I have a series of videos and a few pictures here for you all now:
Origami shunting sheds, with Christmas lights inside, then the diesel shunters and to the right one of the diesel (maybe a Deltic) loco's and just pulling out of the station on the right, one of the steam loco's.
Here we see the Pinkston and Bestwood colliery trains on the inner, tight, circles. Then the Queen of Scots (Mallard class) coming on the outer radius, before we get a de-railment on the far side.
We also see the DCC sound loco struggling to move with the power needs.
A view of the seven station circumferences.
Some movement along the station side, pictured previously.
More footage of the outer radius.
Coronation Class (I think) on the back straight, with DCC Sound playing.
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