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Okay, I needed that smile. Thanks Wals.

Just so Wals has something warmer to stir his imagination..

I'm pretty sure I've got most of the ACTUAL important stuff covered at the moment. It's the little things. Like, the 120 Gigs of music I have stored there - digging cd's out of storage and re-burning them will be freaking murderous. Since backup software keeps failing, i've resorted to manual cut and paste. Of course, that's being a pain because a right click takes about 40 seconds for anything to happen now.. and even then half the time it just causes folders to flicker, go into "not responding" then back again. And if I have a big chunk of files, it starts making hacking noises. So I'm having to do it all in small, small chunks at a time...

Cursed mightily and verily for a long time. My computer is acting up a little, so I tried to perform a vital backup. Which failed due to I/O device errors and "cannot write this file". Started trying variations. My primary harddrive is now making assorted "tick-crack-crack-rraag-crack" noises.. Which is not so happy making. Further non-happy making is that my operating system came pre-installed, and that rather then giving me a disk with it on, they have all the install files in one of those nice "hidden drives" on the aforementioned primary drive. Now the last time I had a drive make that sort of noise, it went for about 4 days and DIIIEEEEDD in a most hideous and foul manner. So my optimism is fairly lacking. In fact, I'm feeling that the probabilities are quite high that my credit card and stash of emergency savings are going to be taking a hit this weekend...

For one that nearly all women I know have loved.. http://youtu.be/Vv7EgKoN0TQ

Feeling a bit more tired, cranky and stressed then yesterday. I have the urge to be incredibly anti-social for a bit, but am attempting to resist that. Crumbled up a cadbury's flake into some milk and heated it up, added some cadbury's chocolate powder and pondering on the remainder of the evening.

You get the feeling there's "much wub" about SR4?

Happy Birthday JFSOCC.. Party Fun, but don't party too hard.. Drawn out day, it's turned fairly grey with on/off rain. Juggling various things, and had a 3TB drive on format for..hm, just over 5 hours now. Of course, the little green bar seems to have crept about 1/5th of the way across.. Getting hit by waves of tired and trying to keep my eyes open.

Hm. dogs, cats, hospital appointments. grocery shopping. some minor bank weirdness. pc's still being a bit of an odd duck. Hm, a couple of friends and an ex-gf who had gotten back in email contact have all suddenly dropped silent for the last month or so without any word or reason of, which is both annoying and worrying in kind of equal measure. Novatech are apparently offering free "health checks" and general advice on how to upgrade your pc if you take it in and let their techs poke at it for half-an-hour. Might try that some point in the near future, see if they spot anything I've missed and to be amused or inspired by any suggestions they come up with. Oh, and apparently I won a competition Baen Publishing ran. So I'm going to be getting a signed copy of a book, and a bunch of free ebooks as well.

Human ass, family trauma. That's all you need to know. Is there no more love for the singing lizard these days?

http://youtu.be/DvGmANbPUNk Heh. "if we didn't have aliens in this one, we wouldn't have been able to do these weapons. None of them would have made sense" As if the giant purple **** bat really made any sense in SR3....

Oh and congrats Malcador. Hm, it's always a fun day when your pc decides to do all sorts of weird and wonderful things without any outright error messages to work from.. Running along on the tired, cranky, and somewhat stressed from that and various other things. Pondering on what will amuse, entertain and otherwise cheer myself up so I can properly throw myself at it all again on the morrow.

As long as they don't frikkin sparkle.

Okay, now I know that's a good reason not to post really late at night..but I have no idea why i ended up putting Crossing Lines in this thread rather then "what's on the idiot box"....

Switched on the pc and was puzzled. All my windows theme/desktop settings have shifted overnight. It can't seem to make up it's mind if it's got a graphics card installed. And any right click I make leaves it chundering for about 30-50 seconds before I get a whiff of a menu appearing..

Let's just Carry On then shall we?

Well we've had about a week's break from this, so let's return with a theme..

That and the whole Spanish Inquisition was slightly different from the standard Catholic Church Inquisition if I recall, it was actually established by the Spanish King.. of course, the Roman Catholic Church didn't actually disband the Office of the Inquisition until the last century, well, when I say "disband" I mean re-named and re-branded as the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith (or some such)... But we're wandering into history and away from fun game related trivia.. Hm, did we cover the http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/07/25/fear-not-your-dragon-age-choices-will-carry-over-into-inquisition/ from a few weeks back or did I miss it?

Well, wasn't the description basically that they pretty much record every email (or such) and save it away on big server farms? Then if your name crops up in relation to anything (or some bureaucrat is annoyed with you) they can pretty much run a search query on you, pull it from storage, then they can analyse it to look for whatever they want or if there's something interesting. Of course, that might just have been the journalists getting it a wee bit wrong, which like, never ever happens.

Crossing Lines. It's being somewhat interesting but nothing special procedural crime show. Definitely being a good showcase for William Fichtner. Although it's a..curious concept: A special crime unit set up by the ICC to look at serious crimes that cross borders within the EU. So of course it's a mixed unit of nationalities and specialities: Led by a French detective whose son was killed by a russian mobster (lines of conspiracy hidden away for an arc) The Irish cop (who happens to have a criminal brother) ; the firearm expert. The German cop (with an internet gambling addiction) ; technical wiz and hacker. The Italian cop (daughter of a killed mob boss) ; who happens to be the anti-mafia covert specialist. The French cop (the young and somewhat naive) ; who specialises in smuggling and border crossing crimes. The American cop (one crippled hand and a struggling drug issue) ; who happens to be a disgraced former NY detective and expert profiler. Nice European settings to it all, shifts in tone due to using the train to cross borders and the like, oh and Donald Sutherland as the ICC representative. It does kind of gloriously misrepresent what the ICC actually does, but ah well. It's all an excuse.

Hm, I remember seeing something about the Spanish Inquisition actually killed far fewer "witches" then other places in Europe. They were more geared around "heresy" in more Christian related sense then worrying about "demonic influences" and "hex-ing crones"... Of course, if we're going to be Inquisitors.. do we get to surprise anyone? Because you know our main weapon will have to be suprise and fear....

Heh, wait until you have to drop out of your final year of university to look after a disabled mother. a decade on and you really look at your cv and go "oh crap." It's all about pulling yourself up and throwing yourself forward... As long as you don't give up and fall into a small heap in the floor to cry.. I tried the military before i was too old. Bastard medical board caught me because my left eye was too short sighted. My right eye made the grade, but my left eye let me down... But I did pick up a whole bunch of amusing stories from those potential officer visits they do with the British Army regiments here..

Hm. Okay, see the thing I really liked about DA2 was the concept of you becoming this major city "lord & hero" and seeing how your choices would effect the city over time. Then the execution of those aspects kind of sucked. Now I'm pondering if I should get excited about the possibilites behind the whole "character building up an organisation" and the choices and consequences that will evolve from that. Of course, that's somewhat dampened by wondering if they'll let it meander the weird way they did in DA2. Heh, actually thinking about it, maybe that's the nostalgia of all those old AD&D campaigns of finally going from low to mid/high level where you suddenly got a keep and followers and that whole shift from purely "wandering adventurer" to actual responsibility and power and effecting the campaign world on a larger stage....

As a follow-on to my day, got a nice external harddrive delivered so I could do some serious backup of my PC. Now have just spent an hour and a half making attempts at backups that keep failing in the last 5 minutes due to "i/o errors"..

"Using this Doll, can you show me where the bad NSA touched you?"