Tuesday, 12 September 2006
A nice weekend
This weekend we stayed in Valenciennes, and I chalked up a few quality hours of Nintendo time with the DS. I'm still nowhere near Emilie's total hours played but it was good to play some of the games I got for my birthday, mostly Castlevania and Metroid pinball. Fun stuff. I also got some coding in too, finally getting a logging module going on my blog so I can track the massive traffic it's generating (joke). It's a bit crude at the moment but it's better than nothing (and yes, I know I could just run JBoss through Apache and get it for free but I wanted to do it my own way).
On Sunday we played some Lost cities together (a board/card game that Emilie really likes). We were going to play Pai Gow too but never got around to it. We did take Valenciennes' new tramway out to the movie theatre and saw Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind, which is having a run through the theatres here with a new French dubbing. Emilie is a big Hayao Miyazaki fan, and this was his first film. I thought it was incredible in the script, creativity, and thought-provoking departments but the animation quality is not as good as more recent films (obviously). We saw Cars in the same theatre and there was no comparison in picture or sound. Still, this was the better movie.
