All posts by Newt

Games Designer, Publisher, Web Developer, Dad.

Busy, busy, busy…

Lately life has been so busy.

A couple of weeks ago realised that I had been at my job for six months and being on a 12 month contract , guess what!!! Yup six months to milk the system and get a better paid more groovy gig for Mr Newt. So being good (or passable on a bad day)at my job is no longer an option and I’ve been stepping up a gear.

Also despite February being traditionally sleepy, cold and pennyless I’ve been away most weekends thus far. Off to a wedding in Derby this weekend 🙂
March is clear so far, except for the inevitable Mothers Day/Father’s Birthday trip.

Time for a quick cup of coffee

Whoa, today has been such a fast moving set of wobblers* that Mr Newt stood on the brink of losing his sense of humour.

Thankfully the world has come to a stop now. A quick cup of coffee and I’ll be on my way to my exercise class, to return home dead late tired and sweaty.

Life got to love it 🙂

*events that put you not just off balance but positively wobbly

Grrrrrrrrrrrr feckin Trains!!!

I love my job. No I really do 🙂

But I hate the commute to Manchester. Every two or three weeks it reaches a peak and I’m at that stage now. I’m fighting through with a happy smile, but this morning the train stood still for ONE HOUR TEN MINUTES just outside Manchester.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!

Oh happy day….

Well this morning my body broke. Woke up after a restless night of cats waking me and Rach up, feeling well spaced out. Not in a nice way I might add. So seeing this as a sign that the cold that has been knocking on the door for the a last couple of weeks had finally caught up with me, prompty rang in sick. The rationale being that I really need to recharge the batteries in light of all the meetings I have this week (one per day, phase 2 of web site redevelopment).

Caught up with my kip, then surfed the net and played some Counter-strike. Then Rach got back from Uni and whizzed me off to Crown Point. More prints of the Wedding Photos (which Rach reckons we have 500 photos of!!!) plus I put in some of my negatives from the last 10 years (oh yes tremble mortals, coming to my webspace mucho soon)

To be cont

Don’t reinvent the wheel

Pre-written functions and objects are your friends. If someone has gone there and spent a great deal of time and effort doing it before you, tweak modify and mould it to your own purpose.

Especially if drawing up submission guidelines for web pages.

Here endeth the lession.