Raithe

Yeesh. Caught a bit of a documentary about "Extreme Couponing". Okay, spending a "minimum" of 35 hours a week on collecting/arranging/organising coupons, so you can go and do massive shopping sprees that end up costing you $0.. and having hordes of stuff you don't actually use for years if at all.... That's a point where you aren't "saving money" just losing a serious chunk of your life. If the choice is spending a hundred bucks or so, and getting 35 hours of your life back... Edit: Hm, and my mothers kindle is starting to go. The battery isn't lasting as long as it should and it doesn't let you switch the thing off. Or rather you can..but then it'll randomly switch itself on or into standby mode over the course of a night.. And kind of annoyed with Amazon about it - looking at the possibilities of picking up a replacement, the UK versions cost ridiculously more then buying it in the US. And Amazon.com no longer allows you to buy them and get it shipped across to the UK (which is how I got it for her birthday about 3 years ago). I mean, seriously, Kindle Touch 3G in the US = $149. Or.. in the UK =

See, back the other year when I emptied my room out to redecorate.. I ended up utilising the front room to pile my "library" in.. And this is what it looked like:

And with good insulation..the heating bills will drop a fair bit over the winter...

Second night of strange dreams of alien invasion.. and I haven't even been watching sci-fi. Seriously heavy r ain and strong wind all through the night and still going this morning. Kind of laid in bed listening to it all.. Strangely hard to get up when you're snug in bed, feeling kind of lazy, and can hear the trees bending and creaking in the wind and the windows getting hammered by rain....

Those shelves are triple-stacked So yes, three books deep in most cases...

What I like to call.. "The Library" Or at least.. One wall of it.....

Got up, realised no-one else was up and moving around.. so I went back to bed. Later proceeded to make a cup of tea, watch the latest episode of "Person of Interest", and idly along a little time by poking at some forums and reading some Aeon Trinity.

Tsk , it's one of those ones where you first see it and think it must be something screwy, then you find mention of it in a bunch of seperate news areas and you guess it must have some value of journalism.. Ah well. I guess that's becoming part of the joys of modern journalism and media in the internet age...

For the slightly eye-blink at some world news.. http://www.ynetnews....4221310,00.html

Hm, if I actually stacked all my White Wolf books up.. I think i'd have about 6 foot of books..

Yeah, I read the book when I was around 10-11. So when they reshowed it on british tv they were fine with me watching it. Man, it's odd to think the series is only a year younger then I am.

One of the channels has been reshowing "Shogun" this last week. Have to say, it is a damn good mini-series. There's not a bad actor in it.

Not in that photo, thats about 5 months old now. Now he's actually turned 1 year and a month or two.

And for something completely non-political then..

Had a headache, so managed to stay in bed for a few hours..

For the danger zone then.. he's current starring as an ex-military doctor turned trauma specialist turned chief of surgery in Grey's Anatomy.

And for the ladies out there.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0hq4bBnYIM And remember "kittens make everything better..."

Hm, there are times I get some heavy game play in.. especially around weekends on occasion. The first month-two months I was focused Imperial side with my first character, then the last two months I've been more focused on the Republic side.

If I'm getting an hours worth of gameplay for every pound I spend on it.. That works out fairly well compared to renting dvd's, going to the cinema, buying a round of drinks for friends at the pub.... And I'd say I'm getting a few multiple hours of play for every pound spent...

I think it's one I'm going to keep plugging away at. I've got a handful of characters I bounce between, although I tend to focus on one for periods of time.. I'm pretty much approaching it as finishing the class-stories for a character in alternating Imperial / Republic style.. with short breaks on my other characters and using higher-level characters to occasionally send gear/credits to my new ones.. If I'm in the mood I'll get in an hour here, and hour there, maybe a locked in evening as chance allows.. then might have a week where I hardly touch it at all. Only to return once more...

See, to me he's always going to be the guy from "Dog Soldiers". Actually this inspired me to pick up a copy of Bunraku and watch it myself. A fairly enjoyable flick.. And the Narrator has some nice lines..

According to Wiki a "nonce" is British slang for a sex offender. What a weird thing for one random stranger to say to another. Were you walking around with your junk out? Well it was equal opportunity for "sex offender" or "gay" depending on your generation. And nope. General laid back jeans, shirt, jacket, bags of groceries in each hand.. Just..bizarre.