by Greebo » Mon, 13Feb11 00:34
I wish to make my apologies to everyone involved in this project, Dakutis in particular. I have already made some apology by PM but I thought I owed more of an explanation to those waiting on my beta-ing of the English scripting of the game.
This may seem a little like the schoolboy excuse of "the dog ate my homework" but I thought I had got everything sorted by last weekend only to find that I had accidentally gone over some old ground and deleted the new, so I had to start afresh -- that's where my troubles really started! I have since had a hell of a week, starting when my son called on my wife and myself to help him with his newly purchased narrow boat. It was in a marina on the Grand Union Canal, and although he is aiming to live aboard and operate it single handed, he wanted us to assist him in the early stages. Not only has it eaten up all our spare time, but while we were walking along a very muddy towpath, my wife slipped over, and while I was trying to break her fall, she bumped against me, and the next thing i knew I was horizontal over the canal, and an instant later, horizontal under the canal!
Since the canal had had ice on it the day before and also the day after this, you can imagine that my first words on surfacing, were "Oh shit!" and a few other choice epithets as I floundered out of the water into a brisk, wind chill generating 20mph breeze. My joy was made whole when I pulled my £300 Nokia N9 out of my waterlogged pocket and found it had negligible water proofing, and had succumbed. Fortunately the event had happened close to my son's narrow boat and I was able to ward off hypothermia by huddling, nude and shivering hard, around the boat's woodburning stove, while my son, who is shorter and slimmer than me, dug out some of his dry clothes.
Following happenings were fortunately of lesser evil significance.
I have now, at last, completed my editing mission and emailed the results to Dakutis -- hopefully they will aid him!