On Five on a Friday for 11th of May

[danieldwilliam]

Five Things on Friday makes a Friday Five post

1) The Captain is pushing his luck and his bed time back but doing it in such a charming way that it's actually quite nice. There is inevitably a comic and comedy routine at bed time each night which contrives to push back the actual time of going to sleep. This probably needs to stop because he gets grumpy when tired and also MLW and I need to see each other.

2) Only the one gym session this week as I had to re-arrange today's session as MLW had a work committment. Good touch rugby session. Two tries, bit of running, some of the other dads had their older kids down so they joined in. The guy who coaches the P3s (my coaching boss) is really good with the kids.

3) MLW and I are watching the Bridge and also the City and the City - two unconventional police procedurals involving split jurisdictions. Cowri and Saga are my new role models. MLW has to concentrate very hard on The City and The City and I have to concentrate very hard on the Bridge.

4) I have been through the soccer world cup groups and decided which team I am supporting and which team I hoping to lose in each group

Group A - Supporting Uraguay (always), not supporting Russia (it's always funny when the hosts get knocked out and frankly they deserve it.
Group B - supporting Spain and Portugal, (I love Spain, except the fascists and I have a Portuguese niece) not supporting Morocco but only by default.
Group C - Supporting Australia (Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oy, Oy, Oy), not supporting France (it's funny when they lose - aussi, aussi, aussi, non, non, non
Group D - Supporting Iceland, not supporting Argentina - debt defaulting hyper inflation Peronists, what do they think this is, the early 80's?
Group E - Supporting Costa Rica (goes back to an old five a side tournament,) not supporting Brazil (it's funny when they lose)
Group F - Supporting Mexico (they have excellent goalkeepers) not supporting Germany (someone else should win the world cup)
Group G - Supporting Belgium (plucky little Belgium), not supporting England because I want to see the Sun's front pages
Group H - Supporting Columbia because I worry that drug dealers will shoot the players if they don't do well, not supporting - to be honest I have no strong feelings about the other teams.

5) I have been practising a racing game on the PS4 and getting adequate at it. This is considered cheating by my son who would like me to be good, but not as good as him so that I present the pretext of a challenge but do not in fact actually ever beat him. He's out of luck. I am hoping to arrange a match up against his Australian cousins.

Comments

[andrewducker]

Which racing game?

[danieldwilliam]

It is called Trackmania Turbo.

[andrewducker]

Aaah, yes. I've got that one myself. I quite like the "Here is a thirty second puzzle. Do it over and over until you can do it perfectly" feel of it, although it's not something I play that often.

[danieldwilliam]

Yeah, once I twigged that many of the races were in the nature of puzzles it made much more sense.