Not a lot happened that was out of the ordinary this week, which was nice. I did some work, saw my friends a bunch, had lots of pizza and souvlaki, watched various TV shows and anime… actually on that note, I introduced Dad and Elissa to Fallen and the first episode of The Dresden Files. The week started off with a Martini Monday with Dad where I showed him Journeyman, then later in the week I showed Ruby a bunch of different anime as well so I guess this week I did a bit of television pimping. ^^

This week I upgraded Dad’s internet plan to a higher bandwidth cap, as I’ve been ripping through Dad’s bandwidth quite a lot since I’ve been here. After being away for a couple of years in places where there are no bandwidth limits, it’s weird being back in NZ where all of the internet plans are governed within quite low bandwidth limits before incurring overage charges. I wonder if NZ will follow suit and remove the caps on their plans at any point? I hope so.

In the middle of this week I went out with my grandparents and got a golf lesson from Grandad, and then we went for coffee and a bit of a browse through Borders. I think it’s pretty cool that I can spend some time with them while I’m in NZ and I can also get back into my golf a bit, which I’ve been wanting to do for a while but haven’t really found an opportunity to do so.

One very frustrating thing that happened this week was that I tried to set up a Subversion repository (or SVN) on my US webserver for holding the game code and assets for the stuff that Ian and I have been working on. I spent quite a bit of time on this and got it semi-working but not quite how I wanted it to, then eventually gave up and tried to revert to the semi-working version… only to have it not work at all again. Argh! I think this is why I don’t really do server management… it’s still quite over my head with a lot of how it works and how to get it to play nice and work. I’d enlist Michael to help me fix it, but I’m pretty sure he’s got more than enough on his plate with his regular work, and he hasn’t really been as social this time (this visit to NZ, I mean). Anyway, it was all in the pursuit of tools and process for my game development so certainly not a waste of time, just very frustrating.

Anyway, all in all it was a good week which felt very much in the groove of regular New Zealand life for me. Hurrah!