Penniless

Christmas Shopping in Aberdeen

Tis' the season to be fleeced, tralalallalala! Spent the best part of the day In Aberdeen, primarily to meet our daughter returning from Napier for the holidays, but also meeting up with our son who is at RGU. Lunch followed by some Christmas shopping for our two darling children, with the highlight probably; watching these motor-biking Santas revving loudly and doing burn-outs up Union Street.

Festive

The Desolation of Bilbo

I guess I can finally feel the festive spirit, with only a week let to work before commencing a fortnight's break and in the full knowledge that over the consequence of that period of time, there is every likelihood my cat Bilbo will destroy the Christmas tree. Day and night this a task he is hell-bent on fulfilling. The climbing in itself is somewhat destructive, but not satisfied with that he must systematically remove the decorations, particularly at his chosen ingress and egress points. Furthermore, he attempts to tear branches off with his teeth. But look at those big eyes, he's only playing!!!!

Codified

Java Program

I teach Java programming, but that by no means makes me a great programmer. I teach so many different things that it prevents me from specialising in any one particular area, as I have to concentrate on whatever I'm teaching at the time. I do like programming though and this week had a particularly difficult dilemma to solve for a task I was setting, involving writing Arraylists of strings of varying length to file and then reading them back in again and reassigning to an Arraylist. Not even Google could help me with this one. I sussed out a neat little way of handling it by myself and I'm fairly pleased with the results (not shown ;).