Spent a significant sum of money on my car today, but am not unhappy, as my car has come out of it with a new cambelt, 3 new fanbelts, a new water pump, new battery lead, new brake light bulbs, new muffler, new rear brakes, antifreeze, engine flushed, oil and filter changed and a WOF. In other words, all the major maintenance which would conceivably need doing for the next few years.
Also feeling quite lucky that I got it all done now, as the cambelt was already missing a tooth, was loose and the rest of the teeth could be peeled off by hand. In other words, things could have been a lot lot worse.
Managed to get back to work in time from picking it up for beer and pizza as well.
In other news, we are running a wee AI contest at work, based on this one. I spent about 5 minutes modifying one of the examples and ended up with something which could compete quite well with others, which have had hours spent on them. As yet, I have made no improvements on this though, and the few attempts I have made have ended in failure. However, I have plenty of ideas, just waiting for me to figure out the maths that goes with them…
Anyway, after beer and pizza, I watched Demolition man and then went round to Merodie’s to play some pool. A satisfactory result at one game each.
Today, I get to spend all day at work! because we have a project due at the end of next week, which is not a long way away.