On Tuesday we returned to the city and to our homes. I spent the afternoon watching the first few episodes of the first season of 24 from DVD. It’s an excellent show, very tense, and I’m really enjoying it.<\/p>\n
New Year’s Eve was at Bruce and Steph’s, and featured Ager’s arrangement of Auld Lang Syne and a flaming haggis. Paul and Kelly showed up just before midnight with wee Jamie<\/a>, who’s starting to fill in but is still really really small.<\/p>\n Happy 2003! I’m back at work, though today is very quiet. It’s been a lovely break, but all good things must end. After a day of recovery, Anne and I went to her parents’ place in Georgetown on Sunday for two nights. We had a really nice time, slightly marred by me coming down with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a>Yesterday started really late and we took full opportunity of a final chance to be lazy. I started a campaign game of Europa Universalis<\/a> as England, and was developing peacefully when the dastardly Scots and French decided to pick a fight. I held my border and grabbed Glasgow and Edinburgh, forcing a peace with Scotland, though it’s still pretty tense as to whether I can keep Calais from French hands despite a couple of significant naval victories in the Channel. Meanwhile Jean Cabot founded a trading post in Chicoutimi, but died at the outset of his second voyage, intended to explore Hudson’s Bay, so I’ve had to put my New World ambitions on hold for a while. Great fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"