Whee :)

[denny]

Went to Spitz last night to practise poi (and stuff). Hopefully I'll be doing this most weeks from now on - I miss the fun I had playing in the park with all my toys before I got employed again (although on balance, the salary does offer a fine form of compensation for my otherwise tragic loss).

I've bruised the hell out of my calf muscles, but I think I've just about figured out how to do the weave behind my back now. Also I suddenly figured out the trick to push-throughs, although I think it's going to take me a while longer to persuade my arms to ignore the (wrong) timing that my instincts want to use for them, and instead leave them that extra half-beat until they'll actually work.

I also got a random Australian guy past his first poi-learning hurdle, with a bit of coaching and demonstration - so hopefully he'll be happier for his night's efforts too. All in all, a nice evening. Even with the hour-long tube journey each way.

Today at work I had to install a whole load of server software on a Windows XP laptop and get two different content management engines running on it (one .NET and one Perl/MySQL), as well as continuing my battle with a horrendously poorly implemented stats package on a 2k3 server. This was not a pleasant set of tasks. My loathing of Windows had subsided into a gentle distaste recently, but in the face of actually trying to do anything useful with it I'm now back to full-blown hatred. I have a horrible feeling that I'm going to be lumbered with an increasing amount of Windows sysadmin work until we find a replacement for the guy who's leaving this week.

Tomorrow the bosses are going to take us all out and buy us food and drinks, so I guess I'll let them live. For now. No-one wants to disturb my Perl/XML hacking session tomorrow though, especially not with the word 'Windows'.

Comments

[nullstr.livejournal.com]

I know you're from the Dark Side (aka Perl :), but try out Python with the win32all extensions and other COM/COM+ bindings. Pretty much everything can be scripted REALLY easily.

I have found them indispensible.

Not sure if Perl has similar bindings...

M

*smiles* your a growed up now..all work no poi!

[lunernia.livejournal.com]

nooo don't get really good at poi..

thats my skill *blows rasberrys lots*

*squdge* you sound nice and bouncey, iam glad you have cheered up a bit! *hugs*

[msdemmie.livejournal.com]

Great to meet you at last - at the weekend - I have to ask is this fire poi ? My daugher is currently helping run a circus performing group near us - and is using fire poi, and UV lights and god knows what to *entertain*. The just spent a week at the Circus skills convention in Bristol - in a tent - same one as a lot of the top single tail experts ! - Funny how worlds collide ( cross over )

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

I've only used fire poi once before, but I bought my own last week and will be firing them up on Saturday. Usually I just practise with brightly coloured 'sock' style poi.

There's a pic of me with fire poi here:
http://www.btsuck.org/private/fire/denny.poi.jpeg

[msdemmie.livejournal.com]

great pic - Ill try look out some of her