I didn’t have time to write an entry on Sunday night because my critical thinking classes didn’t end until 10pm. Daylight saving began a couple of weekends ago, which moved all my classes an hour later.
During the day on Sunday I drove up the coast to visit my mother for a brunch at a cafe near her place. It’s an hour drive on the freeway, so a bit of a trip. It’s the first time I’ve seen her since our trip to Europe in July, so I gave her the gifts we got: hot paprika from Budapest and some Slovakian crystal from Bratislava. The I drove back and had to get stuck into my classes in the evening.
Today I had more classes in the morning, then I walked Scully up to my wife’s work to drop her off and hopped on a train into the city. I wanted to look around some book and game shops and then head across to the university for tonight’s image processing tutorial. I saw a tempting game: Monkey Palace, by Lego! I looked it up and saw it has good reviews on Board Game Geek, so I almost bought it… but I realised I really don’t need any more board games right now.
I planned to go to a specific place for an early dinner and to sit and relax a bit – a Japanese place that does gyozas, which I don’t normally get to go to because it’s a bit further from the university, but it’s on the walk from the centre of the city so I passed it today. But when I got there it was closed for a private function! So I had to go somewhere else and kill an hour. If I’d known I couldn’t eat there I would have spent more time shopping around in the city first.
After the tutorial I came home and am just dashing this off quickly before bed time.