Had a fairly productive day. Got a bit of housework done, put up my Christmas lights in the study, caught up on some videos, started dusting and putting away my Star Destroyer, did up a 12-week cleaning roster, cooked an "interesting" dinner.

Miss Stu tho :(

And for a few photos...

First up we have the stuffed capsicum I made last monday night...

Followed by my "Pesto Veggies" dinner - mushrooms, capsicum and tomatoes fried in a little butter, with a few dollops of pesto thrown in. Mixed in with some wholegrain pasta and topped with cheese (I added more cheese after the photo was taken :) )

I really need to play some more with movement photos. These are my led lights taken at 1/8th second, while manually moving the zoom out. Strangely enough, in 1/8th of a second, you see 6 cycles of a 50Hz light, and six frames of movement.

So the first time I'd heard of this game, I saw it written "Runescape". So naturally I assumed it was called RunEscape. Then a week or two later I heard someone on the radio call it RuneScape. I still like RunEscape better :)

So anyway, Arian is somewhat addicted to it, and last night, with Stu being out and me being bored, I decided to have a go at it.

Well.

I've never played games like this before. And I'd had a few beers earlier in the evening. So saying my brain hurt was a little of an understatement :) Spent the first hour or so decorating my character and working slowly through the tutorial. Then spent the next hour or so trying to figure out what the heck was going on, and which way was up. Managed to fumble my way through a quest with a lot of help from Arian telling me which way to go. Slowly started to get an idea of what I was meant to be doing. Solved another quest more by good luck than good management, and then finally found the big picture map. Oh what a difference that would have made to have found earlier :) Ended up staying up til well past midnight, only to realise it was the start of daylight savings, and it was really well past 1am. Oops.

So today I get home from church to find Arian playing and Stu decorating a character, so I joined in. And Arian and I played literally all afternoon (while Stu did housework and slept heh).

I can see this becoming an *enormous* time waster in the near future!

Fairly busy day. Housework in the morning, then out to Yvonne&Dave's for some of the arvo then running around the city then finally getting a chance to take a breather in front of the telly tonight. Caught up on some videos, watched Air Crash Investigations which was a bit emotional cause they had quite a stack of real footage of a hijacked Air France plane being stormed at Marseilles airport. Then flicked over to Deep Impact, recognising instantly the score as being by James Horner, not exactly a remarkable feat, it being almost identical to the Titanic score. 1998 was a year for same-only-different movies. Deep Impact/Armageddon for the asteroid-about-to-wipe-out-earth and Antz/A Bug's Life for the animated-ants movies.

I suppose I should really do the washing up, make up my bed, wash my hair, go to sleep.. the usual.

I need more of it dammit!!
Either that or give up on ebay and Lego and do something more useful with my time!

I was thinking I should have a one hour per day anti-computer limit, where I go off and do something else other than just sit here. Of course I'd probably just sit in front of the telly or something. Somehow there wouldn't be much incentive to do boring things like housework...

The boss reacted as predicted when I suggested I might die skydiving - he said I couldn't go until I'd downloaded my brain :) I appeased him by telling him I'd wait til after Christmas when things were a bit more settled :)

I blinked and today disappeared.

The plan was to work through labelling my USA photos. The reality was spending most of it out of the house or doing boring houseworky stuff.

I did buy two new fish - a couple of cory catfish for the big tank.

Man I'm tired. Doesn't help getting only 6 hours sleep after a video night at Evilhouse East. I'm wondering whether I should keep going to them, they mostly play movies I have no interest in whatsoever. Last night they played "Friend", a Korean movie which I thought for the first three quarters was going to be a waste of two hours of my life. It got *slightly* better right near the end when I finally started to make sense of who was who and where they fitted into it. The alternative was Bowling for Columbine which I would like to have seen but the other guys had seen it recently, doh!