Why The Console Will Always Win
Last night, after another batch of Mass Effect screen shots appeared on Pentadact’s photostream I decided to give the game another go. I first picked it up back in July, hoping it would provide me some much-needed escapism. It didn’t, and as such (like all the other games I was playing at the time) it ended up falling by the wayside whilst I watched episode upon episode of House and BSG (really need to finish watching Season 4 of that, before the new one starts). But I digress. So, after dinner, two episodes of Buffy, washing the dishes, cleaning the litter try, clearing up a smashed glass and mining some cobalt, I fired the game up. By this point, it was about half 8, but I still hoped to get a few hours in before bed. Click through for the rather rantalicious story of what happened next.
No One Will Ever Make Me Watch Jaws 3D Again
These past few days I’ve once again been feeling rather reflective. I imagine this is just my subconscious making light of the fact that I’ve hit the 6 month mark. I feel I should be somewhat worried that this is still an issue. In between the lack of closure and the lack of anything (anyone?) to move on to (or, in fact, any glimmer of hope or potential in this regard), it just won’t go away. But, like Xander when he lost his eye (see, not a totally arbitrary post title!), I just have to make light of it. I will freely admit that it’s pathetic and emo and silly; I’m not sat around wallowing in self pity. It’s just there, and I’ll have to live with it for the foreseeable future.
Right, brain explosion over. In other, more positive news, this marks my 100th blog entry, and we’re coming up to its one year anniversary, too (Feb 8th, to be precise). I shall have to do something special.
Or not.
If Life Were a Relational Database
Time for more abstract representations of my life. Wouldn’t it be great if making drastic changes to ones life was as simple as executing a series of SQL statements?
update Life.Job set Salary = 40,000 where CurrentJob = 1
update Life.Body set Fitness = 'Healthy'
delete from Life.Memories where Description like '%Rachael%' and 2008-01-01 < Date < 2009-01-01
insert into Life.Girlfriends(Name, DOB, StartDate) values('Sarah Kerrigan', 1984-04-07, getdate())*
update Life.Skills set Value = 450 where Type = 'Cooking'
update Life.Moods set Enabled = 0 where Mood = 'Emo'
delete from Life.Debts where Name = 'Student Loan'
Oh and for the record, this isn’t meant in an emo-rific sense. While some of these are out of my hands, the cooking at fitness things aren’t, and I’m actually doing something about that. In a few minutes I’ll be going swimming for the 3rd time this year, and tonight I shall be cooking myself a prawn stir fry. So there.
*I don’t actually know a Sarah Kerrigan; I merely looked at my Blizzard mousemat whilst fishing for a name and noticed the Queen of Blades.
The Years Go On and We’re Still Fighting It
So, it being a new year and all, a lot of people/media outlets have been putting out “reviews” of the year, replete with self congratulation and links to old posts that you really didn’t want to read again.
I’m not going to do that. But I feel that, 2008 being one of the hardest years I’ve slogged through, it deserved some retrospection. Also, I love graphs. So, yes, here in graphical form, is my 2008.
Pretty self explanatory, don’t you think?
