chess | I guess I really should write up XF.

Which I will do in the manner of a survey, to begin with, and then elaborate some more.

Lessons: Calmness. Peace. Joy-despite-circumstances. Eating a bowl of All-Bran for breakfast and then drinking hardly anything all day is a really, really bad idea.

Pinkstuff: Too much milk makes Pink Goo rather than Pinkstuff. The Pink Goo was also a lot more filling than the Pinkstuff, it seems, which I suspect I could have eaten entire trays of if everyone else hadn't mostly beaten me to it.

Techstuff: Haskell is weird. Kali was obviously in a much better state to show off the day after we tried to show it off at the Talentless Night than on the night. Jon Cooper got Debian onto Aivas, at last. And it works in 800x600 in X, with sound and the network card that wouldn't work in Win98 working.

Themepark: We went to Thorpe Park. I went on Colossus twice - once so we could drag Neil on, then again because actually it was pretty cool. There were reports of a workman dressed only in a thong and a blue hardhat on Thunder River^W^W Rhumba Rapids, but thankfully I didn't have to witness this horrific sight. Warm sugary ring donuts are good, although still not as good as proper doughnuts filled with chocolate spread. More managable, though. Neil and Jon Cooper ate the sugar left in the bags. Kela had a drink which was simultaneously frozen (Slush-Puppie style) and fizzy, which I declined a taste of, in virulent blue and red swirls. Both the teacups (we got a nasty stiff cup that wouldn't spin well) and the whirly thing (which was obviously not running at full speed or height, and at one point a car collided with the hut) were a bit disappointing, although Pirates 4D was funny - Naath will be amused by the fact that the chairs vibrated (when there were a bunch of wasps around).