{"id":990,"date":"2020-08-25T16:24:51","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T23:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/?p=990"},"modified":"2020-08-25T16:26:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T23:26:46","slug":"25th-august-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/2020\/08\/25th-august-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"25th August 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Feeling:<\/strong>\u00a0OK, although more literally &#8220;under the weather&#8221; today<\/li><li><strong>Listening to:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/gb\/station\/pure-pop-gold\/ra.1055202261\">Apple &#8220;Pure Pop Gold&#8221; Radio<\/a><\/li><li><strong>Watching<\/strong>:\u00a0Prodigal Son<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Woke late this morning &#8211; but had a bit more energy today. The weather has been pretty poor all day (Storm Francis) &#8211; apparently lots of trees down across the area although none near us as far as I know. There was a minor casualty in the garden &#8211; the sunflower head broke off in the wind much to D&#8217;s disappointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>F had declared today a &#8220;reading day&#8221; but not sure she got very far with that. She did do some reading, but also Minecraft, playing with her brother, watching TV &#8211; all the things you might expect of a 9 year old to be honest. Later on she had her drum lesson and 11+ tutoring &#8211; which was on poetry this week &#8211; so sweet and nice to hear her declare &#8220;I love poetry&#8221; &#8211; and she really does. She&#8217;s planning a poetry reading, writing and performance day for Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>B worked on his computer as usual, and then went back to the project of building a game on a mechanical computer (with F) later in the day &#8211; and got it working. This was the first working version, although he got a slightly more sophisticated version working later in the day. The rules are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>You and the computer take turns sending balls down the course with the aim of being the player who sends the final red ball down the course<\/li><li>Each player can send 1, 2, or 3 balls down on each turn by hitting the lower left lever the appropriate number of times<\/li><li>For the computer to take a go you reverse one of the pieces and hit the left lever to start its turn<\/li><li>Once the computer sends a ball down that hits the right lever it&#8217;s your go again (for which you reverse the same piece and then hit the left lever for however many balls you are going to select)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/trim_CA4724DE-FEAE-4A44-BE29-19457820538A.mov\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Played according to the rules above, the computer always wins &#8211; (see <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9KABcmczPdg\">this YouTube video on the Dr NIM game <\/a>for more on the original game and how it works.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile we got B&#8217;s bus pass for the upcoming school year and the government has changed it&#8217;s policy on pupils wearing masks in schools (from recommending against it to &#8220;headteachers discretion&#8221;) which is what Bs school had basically decided anyway I think&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay safe, stay strong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling:\u00a0OK, although more literally &#8220;under the weather&#8221; today Listening to:\u00a0Apple &#8220;Pure Pop Gold&#8221; Radio Watching:\u00a0Prodigal Son Woke late this morning &#8211; but had a bit more energy today. 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