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Is it any good? Can't say without having finished the book, I've read too many books that burned all their powder in the first third and then quality and information value dropped to disappointing levels. But so far its good. I keep seeing this at the top of the page and want to put down "It's so good it'll make your head explode"....

I have to admit, if I'm not going with the industrial nature of PG Tips.. I will favour Lady Grey over Earl Grey...

Heh. The Be Five. Babylon 5 actors Bill Mummy, Andreas Katsulas, Mira Furlan, Peter Jurasik and Claudia Christian with some extra backup vocals from Patricia Tallman making up a cast band... http://youtu.be/7K3DlfGJoQc

That's a whole lot of "awoooga" from Wals.

Well, for my two 55th level characters - Currently they're looking like this (although the Gunslinger hasn't got any really flash gear yet, he's pretty much on the 58 gear):

cinematic games

Well, the news came out, that after taking an hour for consideration the Jury came back with a "Guilty" verdict.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25450555

Before Oby swarms this off once more.. Lets find a variety shall we..

Not directly "New" but a collection of fun science based images from the last year.. io9 - The most amazing science images of 2013?

It was closer to 06-not-so-dark-and-getting-light when I managed to drop off to dozing land.... Pondering how hard it would be to mainline tea. But then I'd lose the taste effect, hm.

Well it's 0440 and I haven't made it to the lands of morpheus yet... The dark ceiling looms overhead and a full moon seems to be glooming its way amidsT cloud cover outside..

My Sith Assassin uses a mixture of the Deception and Madness tree, weighted more to Deception. I used Khem for tanking a lot up to around the 30's, then I started balancing it with Doc for Healing. Careful use of stealth, Mind Trick to do a bit of cc, and swiftly taking out the rest seemed to work quite nicely for me.

Having a poke at AC: Revelations. Stirring up a few memories of when I visited Istanbul some years ago , at least a few of the notable pieces of architecture. Having minor bouts of irritation with it, especially the stupid "checkpoints" that don't actually really count as anything. Missions that have 5 minutes of really piss-easy things to do, and then have a slightly complex/difficult thing.. so if you screw that up, you have to restart the whole freaking mission and go through 5 minutes of easy stuff yet again... Edit: Hm ,and I have no idea whey I posted this in Random Games news rather then What are you playing.. I am juggling too many things and need more sleep...

For the festive spirit...

I've been doing bits and pieces of Christmas shopping over the last few weeks, and in the middle of a conversation with my sister.. I suddenly couldn't think what or if I'd actually sorted out her Christmas presents yet. This could mean digging out all the stashes and double-checking before it gets too late.

To return to the general assortment..:

Poking at work, babysitting my sister's dog (because she's got some Christmas lunch work bash), and sorting out mom's drugs - have to check whether prescription needs refilling before Christmas... Plus the assorted back and forth of various tasks, although I did take a few minutes here and there to give AC:Revelations a try since I picked it up silly cheap in one of the sales in the past few months. Sometimes a good stabby-stabby is what you need to pick you up.

What is kind of funny with the Guns of Navarone, is that David Niven actually spent time with the Commando groups during the war, and Quayle was in the SOE doing crazy stuff with the Albanian partisans. One of those interesting quirks of casting where the actors really did have some experience.... On that slightly related note, I also find it amusing that one of the few times Christopher Lee has willingly made any practical mention of his time with the SOE was during an argument with Peter Jackson on the LOTR set - When Wormtongue gets stabbed and falls off the tower, Lee didn't like the way it was being handled and snapped out something along the lines of "That is not what someone sounds or looks like when you stab them in the back and throw them off a tall building. Do you know what it's like? I do!" As to hard to sit through.. Hm, I don't know about that. Frankly I have a soft spot for a lot of the classics. The likes of Cary Grant, David Niven, Peter O'Toole, Audrey Hepburn, they covered a nice range of screwball comedies, light hearted heist movies, and some thrilling action moments.

Well by the standards of warfare at the time, Mr Cromwell was fairly restrained..

Now I'm waiting for the assorted 40k "For it is mutant and must be cleansed" quotes to begin..

Congratulations on that slow descent from party boy to "Serious Adult" then... Mayhaps we should get Ros to organise a Christmas party for all Obs Europeans to gather at and be impressed..

Suffering bouts of procrastination. I know a couple of things I should get started on but keep staring at the screen and not engaging. The cat seems to have scratched an eyelid, so it's got a bloody eye. The weather is rather rotten wintery rain outside. My dad is being a general Grinch over Christmas as usual, my sister has pretty much stated she might do a flying visit on Christmas day but she won't be lingering - I can actually understand that, we normally gather together for just a couple of hours for everyone to open presents, then disappear to different areas of the house until Christmas Dinner is served, at what point we all go off to our own corners again. Due to various things, the front room has a whole bunch of non-Christmas stuff in it, which is why I went with the smaller tree rather then the big 7'+ one, and not getting out all the decorations for the house. Tried having a poke at sorting out the usual Christmas gathering of friends, but no-one can figure out if they're going to be in the country or out, dealing with family visiting, or whether they can get their kids taken care of. So that keeps turning into a waffle rather then any clear decisions made. Oh and I've been invited to another wedding in Mexico in April, but I doubt I'll be able to make that.

Heh. That reminds me of the story of some terrorists travelling through Europe back in the 80's, they set the bomb in one country as they were traveling but forgot about the time zone difference when they got there.. so it went off an hour early in the van they were all in.

Psych - The Musical. There is something to be said for a dose of utter silliness. Especially when wrapped up in extra length "musical" episode.