Categories: uncategorized
Date: 24 March 2008 13:02:20
In the last three or four days I have discovered a new and fiendishly difficult Patience (Solitaire) game on my computer. (Incidentally, when did Solitaire stop being the name for a game that starts with a cross arrangement of pegs in holes with the middle peg missing, with the aim of ending up with just one peg in the middle, and start to be the official name for what I have always called Patience? I blame the Americans..) Anyway, the game's programmer encouragingly notes in his rules and tips that it took him 25 years to get his first game of this variety out. With the help of his solitary tip, I managed to get my first game out in two days. And I have since got a second game out. I am inordinately proud.
I'm also proud of the fact that in the last few days I have braved the uncharted territories of Facebook, and by dint of raiding the friends list of a friend from church, have built up a respectable network of 18 or so friends. I even took a reasonable photo of myself with the built in camera in my new iMac, and managed to upload it to my profile. (And yes, I do remember that I promised to post photos here of my cat in an intray - I will get round to that soon, honest guv...