… plus c’est la même chose – or, “the more things change, the more things stay the same”.
And sure enough, so it is here. I was just about to get my fork stuck into my lunchtime baguette when the doorbell rang.
“Excuse me, but my car won’t start. I wonder if you would mind giving me a hand”.
And so that was that.
A neighbour with a flat battery, and Yours Truly to the rescue and in no time at all we had the neighbour up and running and on the way round to the garage for a new battery. Such is life.
But I suppose that this “good neighbour” thing is quite important when you live in a block of flats like this. You never know when I might be in need of a bit of help and if you have the reputation of being serviable as they say around here, then people are more inclined to help.
At least, that’s the theory. The practice is usually quite different as any good cynic can tell you. But it’s better to live in hope than die in despair.
The wind is still howling around out here, although not as badly as the last couple of days. And just for a change I was up and about long before the alarm went off and I was sitting down on the sofa after breakfast working when it sounded at 07:00. That’s not at all like me these days, is it?
Apart from that, I’ve been busy on the website and I’ve been also experimenting with a new feature on the 3D program that I use. You can make your own characters based on certain pre-designed meshes, and each mesh has its own setting that you can use to make props to fit it.
The props aren’t interchangeable between meshes but there is a script function that I’ve discovered that can be used to edit them so that they will interchange. I’ve only managed so far to make it work on a couple of meshes but unfortunately not the one that I usually use, but I’ll keep on going.
And I was experimenting with the animation function too. Usually, this sort of thing comes by trial and error but very occasionally the light comes on in your brain and this was what was happening yesterday evening – to such an extent that I ended up having another late night last night as I was carried away by my work.
I could say that this kind of thing keeps me out of mischief, but to be honest, I feel like getting into some mischief right now. My Belgium trip on Sunday is coming just at the right moment to save me from a slow death by boredom.
