The wife is away for a week next week hanging out with Final Fantasy XIV friends, so I've also taken a few days off from the day job. The Monday is a bank holiday anyway, but I've also taken the Tuesday and the Wednesday off. I was hoping to get the whole week, but my team leader, who believes that every day is "ooh, manic, absolutely manic, we're rushed off our feet" even when there is so little to do that I can literally sleep through half of it, is panicking over some upcoming projects, so I said I'd take the two days (plus the bank holiday) and see how things went.
I don't have anything in particular planned for the days off, but it will be nice to just have some guilt-free time to do whatever I want to do. Catch up on Atelier, make some progress on Nurse Love Syndrome, play some Evercade games, record some videos, chill out with Microsoft Flight Simulator — all the usual stuff, just without the gnawing feeling that I should probably at least attempt to look like I'm busy, even if there is absolutely nothing to do.
I've been enjoying Microsoft Flight Simulator a fair bit recently. I haven't done anything super-substantial with it as yet, but given its nature, it is best approached as something of a "software toy" rather than something with any real objective. There are the regular Landing Challenges and some additional navigation trials to complete, but otherwise it's literally just do what you want to do, so long as it is in an aeroplane. In the last couple of days, I have flown over my village, followed the accurate, correct road system to the town where I went to school and landed in the car park of said school. (Said school is not modelled with 100% accuracy, it's built from the procedurally generated buildings due to being a low-detail area, but it was still recognisable enough to land there, even if the Technology block appeared to have become a shoe shop.)
I haven't tried all the aircraft yet but I'm already developing some favourites. I'll always have a soft spot for the trusty Cessna 152, of course, since I've been flying that since the Atari ST version of Flight Simulator II (the 8-bit version was a Piper Cherokee, if I remember correctly) but I'm very much enjoying the Savage Cub, if only for the fact it causes air traffic control to append the word "Savage" to your callsign, making for some delightful silliness. Savage FARTS, cleared for takeoff and all that. My only issue with the Cub is braking a bit too hard on landing and causing the stupid thing to go arse over tit, but I'm sure I'll figure that out eventually. The frankly terrifying acceleration from a dead stop when taking off is more than enough to make up for any difficulty actually bringing the thing to a halt.
Anyway. Couple more days of this week to make it through, then a nice super-long "weekend" to enjoy. Looking forward to it already. Hope the rest of your respective weeks are tolerable!
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