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Heatwave

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

Gah - for the last week the UK has been almost unbearable! I’ve had to escalate the war on heat from a fan to an air cooler. Still, at least I’m not melting!

In Warhammer news, the campaign moves on with our intrepid bunch having cleared out a nest of Goblins and now heading in pursuit of an evil cultist to a crater in the north.

Not much. Heat has fried the synapses!

Family Guy Season Five good.

Flying Solo

Saturday, June 17th, 2006

Irritating facts…

  1. This is the second weekend on the trot I’ve had to work
  2. Both weekends have had lovely weather I’d have liked to been out in
  3. Today, my erstwhile partner for the weekend called in sick
  4. This morning, the phones were ludicrously busy for a Saturday

This does not a happy Andy make.

On the upside, I’ev watched Doctor Who as I always do of a weekend (whether it be on Saturday or Sunday after “borrowing a copy”) and found it a little fragmented. Not particularly bad, just fragmented.

Spending my evening watching the ever excellent Firefly so no great shakes - can’t do much else seeing how I have work tomorrow as well.

Also, irritatingly, City of Villains still reuses to play correctly on my PC since the last patch or two - apparently the devs have tracked down a problem and a fix is coming but… well, it ain’t here yet!

Movie Night and Witterings

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

What? You thought that because I replaced ZRN with a blog that I’d update it any more frequently? Foolish, foolish people!

Went to the cinema this evening with my housemate for the thoroughly enjoyable V for Vendetta. I came out of the cinema “singing” da-da dadada-da da *boom*. If you’ve seen it, you may know what I mean :) Had some very nice Orwell’s 1984 analogies - I’m going to have to read the original comics now though, to see what about the big screen implementation irked Alan Moore.

On a bit of a down side I have a swollen mouth, caused by something to do with a wisdom tooth. I’m either going through teething again, or I may (I suspect) have some kind of abscess which is playing merry hell with me. Going to take a painkiller and go to bed soon.

If it hasn’t cleared up by the morning I’m very tempted to call in ill to work (even though I’ve only just started) because it is far too distracting to concentrate, and is interfering with speaking.

Quiet Day

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

Well, with only two days or so until I start my new job at Griffin. I’m both looking forward to it and apprehensive - been years since I had to start a new job. I was so glad that I’d found a new job a few months back, but now I find myself minorly stressing again. At least Ni (my housemate) is staying on at ClientLogic so there isn’t a worry about meeting the rent.

Last night I watched Corpse Bride and Wallace and Gromit’s Curse of the Wererabbit. For all I didn’t like the premise of the Curse when I saw it in trailers but I found myself really enjoying it. Although Corpse Bride wasn’t on my to-watch list it was excellent! Tim Burton animation is always deliciously freaky.

Back to today, I watched Scream with gentle^star (I say with, she watched her copy in the States, I watched mine in the UK) and thoroughly enjoyed that too! Alas, she was called into work so we didn’t have time to do anything else fun.

This evening is being taken up with watching the latest episode of Battlestar Galactica and chatting with folk online. Going to have to be productive tomorrow though, to be ready for Monday!