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The Admirable Crichton was on tv in the background today. Now that's a classic film from '57, based in turn off a play from 1902. A nice, old-fashioned light-comedy. Lord Loam has modern ideas about his household; he believes in treating his servants as his equals - at least sometimes. His butler, Crichton, still believes that members of the serving class should know their place and be happy there. But when the Loam family are shipwrecked on a desert island with the self-reliant Crichton and lady's maid Tweeny, the class system is put to the test. Crichton being the only one with the practical knowledge of how to survive, ends up in the position of leading the small community...

At the moment I just can't stir my enthusiasm to get into multiplayer again.. knowing that over days the war readiness score will drop..and I'm having that "wait and see" urge on what dlc they might have to fix/add to things before I finish my second playthrough..

Hm, and for the sweetness.. Amazon Kindle are doing some great collections of some classic authors.. Robert E Howard - Collected Omnibus 99 Stories, The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft The Collected Works of Jules Verne And assorted others, all from around $1.50-$3.. or so http://www.amazon.com/The-Robert-Howard-Omnibus-ebook/dp/B003O86R5M/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1335198634&sr=8-1 Groovy. Methinks a bit of loose change will be spent...

As has been noted before, the books as a whole do tend to go the grim-dark route by being incredibly rapey. Is that a proper adjective? But pretty much every female character in the books (whether teenager or adult) seems to end up with at least one instance of abuse, and/or rape by some random guy, some enemy, their spouse, or family member. Or at least, that's how it felt by the time I'd finished book three.

Well tis an intensely wet and miserable day here. The sky is grey and the downpour is heavy.. The garden is definitely a mud pit.. But at least the dogs are somewhat settled. Trying to figure out what I need to do this afternoon and whether I have motivation to actually do anything. For some reason I keep having semi-flashback memories of an old girlfriends voice, has that hazy sort of recall and old emotions.

I have to say, I've got the first season downloaded for viewing at some point.. but I just can't seem to get in the proper mood / enthusiasm to watch them. Maybe it's because I didn't overly enjoy the books that much. The first one was kind of enjoyable, and I forced myself to read the next two, but eh, it just didn't capture me.

I have to admit, it puts me in mind of the old Afterburner arcade game. For that slight break in normal gameplay, you get to learn the "waves" as such of the enemy and the bonus mission objectives, then do a whole lot of shooting with good star wars music playing heroically in the background..

And, most importantly.. You get to shoot Kilran in the Face! Man, that was a happy dance moment for my smuggler.

It's all in arranging things on four ability bars in a way which makes sense.. of course, if you take time off from playing one character.. it can take a little bit to figure out exactly what everything is and where you put it on those bars... Had a fun couple of hours running through the full Taral V / Maelstrom Prison with my sister and guildmembers. First time I'd actually done that. Was quite entertaining and fast paced.

Of course, the really bizarre thing that amuses me when I think back on it.. it was the early 90's, and half the tourists going onshore were wearing nike trainers and shell suits.. which amazingly, really stood out in Russia at the time.. Hell, some of the crew walked up to a cop directing traffic and gave him some dollars for his uniform hat and he was quick to take the deal..

"I want to visit to Germany.. Before Germany decides to visit me!" Actually, talking of Russia, I visited Yalta and Odessa back in.. oh, hm, must have been '93-'94ish. That was quite fun, family went on a P&O cruise up through the Med, up the Bosphorus and around the Black sea. We went to the trouble of getting proper visas rather then just the "part of a day trip" that the cruise organised. When we were at Odessa, the Russians would flog anything for dollars. Creepy guy in long trenchcoat walks up to the family, does the shifty look around, then opens the coat with broken accented english of "Want to buy some caviar? 5lbs for 10 dollar" It was a little freaky. Did the morning tour, and we mentioned to the "Official Russian Government Tour Guide" that we had visas and planned to wander around during the afternoon. So she offered us her services to show us around.. That afternoon, she took us up to random private houses, would rap on the door.. eyeslit would open, she'd bark some firm russian at them..and the doors would be opend and we'd be shown around with much general bowing and scraping in her direction... Some nicely impressive architecture..but I do kind of have that feeling she had some official party pull.. Especially since she was considered reliable enough to deal with western tourists during those days of glasnost...

Happy birthday! And just wait for the type of sigh you'll do when you turn 30...

Well tis been off/on raining hard and hammering the windows.. Although I had a wee bit of a headache, I just felt really comfortable and warm in bed so was a serious effort to actually get up... But the day moves ever onwards.. Hm, one of my friends has apparently found their 5 1/2 year relationship ended, so I shall make general attempts to let them know I'm around if they need a vent or such like. Give some ponderings on how I might be able to cheer them up in the near future.

And for that Millenium Falcon love.. And do you think the students at this school realise what it actually looks like?

Heh, found out there's a guild on the public test server, called "Test Guild" that's managed to get about 360 odd folks joined in. Apparently it has periods of absence for a week or so after any big patch, but then gets back into the swing of it. In fact they've got their guild bank up and running and working on the ridiculous levels of money needed to get extra tabs for the bank.. Hm, I have to say I could never decide whether I liked the Sith Inquisitor (male) voice or not..sometimes he had the right tone and delivery, other times not so much... The Smuggler (male) is quite cheerful as well, certainly captures that feel of a han solo delivery.

I haven't really been having any issues with Corellian Run.. Although having a small guild that's working together certainly adds to a certain camaradie.

I had a brief jaunt around Tattooine but didn't actually encounter any Rakghouls... Had that twist show up when I went after Rogun the Butcher.. certainly throws a mental loop into the story.

It's the joys of working with the family. One, he can upon occasion, fairly rock the whole passive-aggressive style. Two, he wants help but explicitly on his terms and the way he wants it done. Three, if he's saying how to do something, and you do it and it's wrong, you were obviously not paying attention to his comments.. Four, he has a habit of moving stuff out of his way and putting it exactly where he'll want to be moving 5 minutes from now, and then start complaining because there's stuff in the way. It's that typical, long, hard slog..and it's just surviving through it and getting the job done. Any arguments over it, just means the job doesn't get done and is a lot of hassle for no payoff.

Yeesh. Just spent 3 hours "helping" my dad put in a new dishwasher... oh the joys. Now time for tea and snack break...

Ah, but isn't that just available to the Sith Sorcerer? Not the Inquisitor in general... Unless it's something recent, I can't remember Static Shield on my Assassin..

So apparently the dishwasher has sprung a leak... So the joys of dealing with that. Seems to be a day of hard chills hitting around here, so firmly on the hot cup of tea and keep near the radiators for added warmth.. Hm, and keeping a half-eye on the trial over in Norway. Some things do make you shake your head in disbelief at times.

Okay, this might be a bit too darkly twisted humour whilst still being sad (as all unnatural death is).. but I couldn't think of another thread to put it in.. In an attempt to prevent a man committing suicide.. LA police tasered him to death. Well, into cardiac arrest, which led to coma, which led to death... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/16/sledge-hammer-tasered-_n_1429287.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

So Sean Bean pretty much dies in every movie he's been in... Can anyone think of a movie role in which he survives? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJODirze5EM Edit: Technically I suppose, he was pretty much invulnerable as Sharpe.. but that was a tv series more then movie roles...