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Just been going over some of the wedding plans with the groom to be, planning on getting a board made up with pictures of the bride's immediate family and names so I can get some grasp before hand. Now with three weeks to go before the flight, and four weeks before the wedding, he drops the news that I need to pick up some basic salsa since dancing is mucho important and the immediate wedding group will be expected to be dancing. Also, apparently the husband of his soon to be sister-in-law is apparently planning on taking us all on a second stag party the day after our flight lands in Mexico City. I'm thinking the job of Best Man starts to get a lot piled on it.....

It's amazing how quickly assorted tasks eat up chunks of your day. Visit to the tailors, dealing with the bank, handling the dogs, various checks on plethora of things, poking at work, it all seems to disapear... As to the cold and such, I have to admit it can be kind of funny how people are acclimatised to specific extremes and are out of sorts in others. I always remember being in California, visiting family of a friend there, the clouds move in and obscure the sun, there's a slight temperature drop, and all the locals are suddenly complaining about the cold and rushing off to get long sleeved tops and light jumpers on. The couple of other Englishmen there and myself were all in short sleeves and fairly hot going "Huh?"

Wha lol .."weak cold" What do you Swedes do in the evening when its that cold? What would you do in a land of cold and blonde beauties? Find many interesting ways to keep warm and entertained I imagine. Urg, having a nice wind chill kick in here. Actually the flash snow across the country is providing it's random amusement. And watching a long haired german shephard running around the garden in excitement with its fur getting blown all around it has its moment of cheap laughter. Sitting down with a hot cup of tea and sorting out my mothers drug supplies. The joys of fresh pharmacuticals added to the pile by the doctors and trying to remember just what goes where...

"For I possess the Gift of Communication!" "Huh, explain the conflict in the Middle East then." "Oh, well that's just Pac Man, with Jerusalem as the Power Pellets"

I think chronology wise.. it would fit in best played just after Thessia. Then you've really got everybody having the run down feel, having slogged through most of it, and needing to blow off steam... As well as providing the best moment for the Normandy to get a quick overhaul.... I mean, it has to be after the Cerberus Coup, and you have to run through a couple of other missions if you want all the crew to turn up...

Heh, Wrex at the bar.. post genophage cure.

Just quickly plugged my ipod in to synch it up with the ME3 Citadel soundtrack I've downloaded.. and boom, just after hitting synch I suddenly realised I haven't actually synched it since I had my massive OCD attack and sorted all the songs on my itunes library around. So now it's got somewhat in excess of 8000 songs to redo rather then just the 20 I thought it would take.... This might take a little bit longer then I planned....

Oh for those with an interest, Bioware have decided to give away the ME3 Citadel sountrack for free. Just have to log into the social network for it.

Gambit. A remake of the old 1966 film - with a fair few changes to the story. Colin Firth as an Art Curator who gets fed up with his abusive boss (Alan Rickman) and decides to pull a fake Monet heist. Which requires the assistance of a rodeo queen (played by Cameron Diaz). Throw in Tom Courtenay as the forger friend, and Stanley Tucci as a rival art specialist... Amusing in that low key way, nothing overly special but some solid performances.

Saw Syndicate going for a couple of quid, so I picked it up. Spent a few hours this evening playing it. I'll say it has some interesting ideas.. but I'm damn glad I didn't spend any more money on getting it.

The party is pretty much the whole point to this dlc. The "story" and combat areas are pretty much a short element, and then the majority is that catch up with the team and deal with the party. It's pretty much pure fanwankery. But it's awesomely cheesy good.

Heh, yup, it is a lot of campy space opera. But it's all that poking fun at themselves and banter that just made it all worthwhile. The little things like overhearing the conversation of the Infiltrator and Vorcha on the citadel... "And that bloody Vanguard kept charging around all over the place. Then he picks up the backpack..and what does he do? He Charges! Eeeverybody knows if you charge you drop the backpack. And he kept doing it!!" Shepard's realisation of how he sounds and his attempts to emphasise different words.. Then some of those conversations during the party. Tali's description and act of the differences between SR1 and SR2.. Garrus And Zaeed trying to turn the apartment into a death trap, Grunt telling neighbours they can't come in, and finally ending up drunk in the shower... They're all silly things. But they just somehow work in an amusing way and feel right for all the characters.

For those Princess Bride lovers out there..

Been one of those days that's seemed to have been full of little bits and pieces , general feel of time warp, and left with the feeling of little of actual worth having been sorted and dealt with... Having a fuzzy, tired, pointlessness hit. So going to sit down to a good cup of tea and push past that.

Okay, I just ran through Citadel tonight. The gameplay isn't anything special, the story has a nice..quirky element to it. But god dammit, it's worth it for the dialogue and atmosphere between all the companions and general call outs. "You guys are Team Mako" "What's a Mako?" "You, you're Team Hammerhead" "Hah, Mako is better then Hammerhead" The play on Shepard picking companions "I've only got room for Shepard and two others.." <squad pick - then panning shot of every other companion stood there looking pouty> background mutters of Garus "Damn it, I wanted to go." Cortez "Why do I never get picked??"

I have to say, the quest that has you finding the lost messages of that tribe from the undercity that Revan helped on Taris has got to turn into one of the most depressing and soulful moments. The music chimes in in the perfect way to underscore as each message you find details the slow end that happened to them after the destruction....

They're already working on the sequel to Ralph. Also under discussion is the whole "getting a cameo from Tron" involved. Especially as they're pushing a new sequel for Tron as well. Apparently they had planned to have a Tron cameo in the first one, but for various reasons (possibly got too 'meta') they decided to cut that idea.

Yeah, The "Level Booster" is on Fleet (both Imp and Rep) on the public test server. Apparently people are running new characters up to 10th level, getting to fleet then hitting that to be 55th level. They put it in to allow people to quickly test out all the new End-game content that's been developed for 2.0 and the Rise of the Hutt Cartel release. Although they aren't testing Markab since that's specifically RotHC related rather then general 2.0 update.

Well here's to the change in job and lifestyle (of sorts) bringing much more enjoyment into your life Nep.

For those with that interest... (and 50 minutes to spare) http://

"Lincoln does well in the theatres. Historically, this hasn't always been the case."

Heh, I just had a poke on the public test server since I've got a sith warrior lurking around 30th level on there. I wandered to fleet after finishing chapter 1, and encountered a strange glowy thing called "Level Machine" which I clicked on with no idea what it was. Now I've suddenly found myself bumped up to 55th level and given a slew of commendations for picking up Arkanian gear. But I still have yet to play through Chapter 2 and 3 at some point.. That's what happens when you're not paying attention.

I think I know a few girls who might disagree with that statement...

Heh. It's a wedding in Mexico where a rather large, catholic brides side of the family will be partially adopting some of the traditions of the mostly agnostic/athiest British groom and his small number of family... So I have absolutely no clue how it'll turn out.

Okay, now I'm going to throw myself wide open here. I've been trying to develop this best-man's speech this afternoon and so far I've got a rough draft. I've been told I've got about 5 minutes to give the speech and the translation of it..(mexican spanish). As I've got about 26 days left to polish this up, get it translated and learn said translation... I'm going to put it up here for commentary on how people think it works and hangs together at the moment. Any advice, appreciated.