So I'm not officialy pissed but I am kind of annoyed.

My Samsung Galaxy S started going a little wonky a while ago and this weekend went crazy enough for me to take it back to the shop. The issue was the touchscreen would glitch or have phantom touches along a straight vertical line on the right hand side, and sometimes stop responding altogether.

So I went to the optus store in the city and arrived about about 12:10pm on Sunday, and they were still closed. How annoying is when you go up to a closed store and you just assume the people inside are being all smug and dicky. Anyway the lady gestured 5 minutes and so I sat outside across the 'plaza' and then went back like 15 minutes later and they opened up for me at that point. So that was freaking annoying.

I was secretly hoping they'd just hand me a new phone there and then (it's about a month and a half old) but I guess that was pretty unlikely. I that they do do that within the first 2 weeks or so. So anyway it's sent away for repair and will probably be 2 weeks. So I'm back on my Motorolla Razr and iPod touch for now. but still paying $50 / mnth even though I'll not be able to use data etc for 2 weeks :/

GameJam was good fun. The theme and asset were IMO very cool. Helped to guide ideas without being too restrictive.

Thanks heaps to Simon for all the organisation and looking after us all over the weekend. (the donuts were like mana from god)

We got to see some pretty nifty and awesome (and well realised) games on the projector.
My standout was probably Trineion (sp?) Very polished and fun looking. I didn't get around to playing it though, too busy working!

Personally, Nick and my pixely story game didn't get completed. It always seemed like we only had a few hours work to go, but then after a few hours we still had the same amount of work left! ><; We will finish it off properly though so lookout for it in a couple weeks!

So It is August the second. One day after our 6 months experiment in partial vegetarianism (pescatarianism) has ended.

We're still meat free as of this minute (though I dunno if Chrystal has pounced on a sausage roll at some point today). We decided against having pork sausages and bacon for breakfast yesterday morning to celerbrate, even though we passed a parent-recommended butcher in Narrogin on Saturday arvo the day before. We had mushrooms, eggs and fried potatoes instead. We're not entirely sure what to do now that we're 'free'. One thing we will do is spend a restaurant voucher that Chrystal received from work. We decided to hold on to that until we can eat more than 15% of the menu.

Regarding pumpkincrumble.com
That blogging experiment didn't go crash hot. As anyone following would have noticed we neglected it pretty hard. We both really enjoyed some aspects of it. Mainly the cooking awesome food and taking photographs and writing little bits of text. We actually took photographs of probably 2 or 3 times as many meals as we ended up blogging about. So I've identified the collating and posting effort as the gating factor.

Ideally after clicking the camera button the photo would magically be in some sort of captioning queue and all we'd have to do is go to some site every couple days and type something up for any photos that weren't captioned and hit go or something like that. In fact the blog runs on wordpress and requires a significant and pretty annoying and cumbersome process in order to put together a post. Including uploading images, resizing them, etc etc. I'd love to get it up and running as a general cookery blog after sorting out those issues.

That is part of the reason I'm trying posterous with this post, seeing what simplification solutions are now available. Just emailing some text and photos seems compelling. I'll also be looking into things I've skipped over in the past like flickr etc. Ideally taking and dumping photos from whatever device and then having them backed up in full locally and available online for posting would be some magical process. Let me know if you have this all sorted out.