What happened to weeknotes for last week?
I missed last week because our department had our September gathering up at Power Home Remodeling's HQ in Philadelphia.
We have three of these a year. Septembers is focused on the internal team. Doing things that help our workflow.
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We have fun, too. Watch movies, go bowling, play games. One evening we partnered with PhillyRB to pair with developers from around the area.
I was able to spend an extra day visiting a friend in the Philly area. I grew up in Texas, lived in Philadelphia for about twenty years then moved back to Texas. One of the things I do miss from my time up north are diners. They have places down here called diners, but they don't really match what you get up in the northeast.
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Work
In addition to catching up on things after being gone a week, I dove into fixing a problem I'm sure a lot of older applications have. Saving emoji characters in input. Mobile devices make it super easy now to put them in just about everywhere. And a lot of applications were never written knowing they'd be used like they are now.
Movies
Last week at our meeting, we saw A Quiet Place, which I saw earlier this year and like a lot. It was just as good the second time around.
Last night, my wife and I saw The House with a Clock in it's Walls. It started out okay, but a few joke things wore out their welcome in places. Creepy for a move aimed at young adults, but the poop jokes were aiming for an even lower age than that.
Games
One game I take with me everywhere but don't play that often is Love Letter: Batman. Just a few cards and tokens. Played it with a few co-workers this past week.
A new game I played solo one night in my room was Tiny Epic Zombies.
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You are in a mall, surrounded by an incoming zombie horde. You have three objectives you need to achieve in order to win the game. There are a lot of choices for objectives and a lot of player choices. If a player character dies, they become a zombie.
In my game I had to help guide some military units into the center area of the mall, retrieve some supplies scattered in various shops, and capture, rather than defeat a number of zombies. About halfway through the game I realized time was running out and barely squeezed out a win on the very last play of the game. There's an event deck and when it runs out, the game is over.
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