Raithe

And for the background this morning.. it's been a touch of Noir.. Noir - Coppelia no Hitsugi Noir - Ending (full) Kirei na Kanjou

The heatwave has passed and the temperature has really dropped here (at least in comparison to the heat side), was one of those mornings where you just didn't want to get out of bed because you knew it was cold out of the blankets.... The puppy seems to have a bit of the devil in him today, chucked a ball around and hopefully exercised some of that from him.. Putting the finishing touches to a few things before mom heads to hospital for the day. Here's hoping that this is one of the times the surgeons remember what she's allergic to and don't give it to her....

Sometimes you just have to fall back to the classics..

Having one of those.. mildly annoying days. Mom's going in for the surgery that was delayed tomorrow. So sorting out various prep for that and juggling with other tasks. Of course, it feels like every 5 minutes I'm getting interupted or distracted by other people coming in to ask questions or some totally random and needless half conversation/statement before they putter back out.

Jobs had some interesting ideas, and yes, things like pixar are something to be grateful for. It's always sad for someone to die , especially from such a nasty case of cancer. At the same time, the cult of the apple iphone worship can tend to get a wee bit annoying.

Sometimes, you have to look at life from the other direction..

I'll admit it could probably be better. It's more assorted walking around the village, running with the dogs, try jogging on the spot as I'm throwing toys for them to fetch, usually get in between 30-100 pressups in the evening, a few other short bursts of exercise scattered around my daily routine like doing squats when I clean my teeth... I try to blend it in rather then manage a specific focused time for exercise. Mostly it probably comes down to how my schedule is. I don't tend to get to bed until after I get mom settled, and with her general pain levels and such its normally around 2-3am that I actually get to bed. Then wake up between 8-9am, her morning meds tend to have her a little dozy for a few hours, so the mornings tend to be that slow deal with assorted chores and properly waking up for the day. There's that batch of rough sleep that catches up every now and again, then it'll pass. Today just seems to have been one where it just crashed big time and I've been zoning in and out this afternoon trying to push a few words around between things. My cups of tea tend to be in nearly pint-sized mugs I normally go through 5 or 6 of them in a day. They generally keep me moving.

That's the joy of having several monarchs of the land of passive-aggresiva and a 35 year old sister who can throw a sulky strop like a spoiled 17 year old. Urf on unrelated matters I took a moment away from some work to throw the ball around for the puppy.. and in the middle of that I just got hit by a wall of exhaustion. Not physical wearing out, just that sudden "i'm about to fall over asleep" type of feeling. Putting the kettle on for a fresh cuppa I think.

Joy. One of those days where everyone in the family is annoying/irritating everyone else. So lots of snappishness passing back and forth and general ragh spilling around. Ah well, trying not to get too stressed with it all. A fresh cup of tea to soothe the day along.

Urf. Being a tad bizarre start to the morning. Had a night of insomnia and emerged in the morning with a headache.. However, the limited sleep I did get was full of dreams about struggling with insomnia trying to sleep with a headache... so I have no idea which is remnants of the dreams and which was reality. Just that I'm shattered and have a headache....

Well I got lost in some research and reading stuff rather then taking notes.. and now I'm being hit with that wave of exhaustion as the evening sets in. I mean, sure I explored some interesting areas...but I feel as if I kind of failed getting actual work done..

Hm, Michelle Sagara's latest "Cast in Ruins" came out a couple of week backs.. but for some reason it's not available in the UK. Had to order it over from the states and get told that potentially it won't arrive till the 20th October.. So having one of those spots of anticipation driving me for reading it, I thought I'd grab the ebook as well to satisfy that craving. Only to find out that all the places that sell the ebook won't let someone from the UK download it. Fans in Oslo have copies of the book. Why the hell can't folks in the UK get it? The publishing industry is tres bizarre at times...

So not sure how aware people outside of merry olde england are aware of it.. but of late we've had a few issues here. Mostly related to known terrorists, or convicted murderers/child molesters/general villainous scum who are all foreign nationals who've come to England, commited crimes, served in prison, but when we try to deport them back to their country of origin they claim it would violate their human rights. Which ends up with said general nasty folk not being deported, and in quite a few cases then being legally entitled to claim state benefits... So yes, causing a bit of a fuss and furor. Sky News - Home Secretary backs calls to scrap Human Rights Act Telegraph - Home Secretary: Scrap the HUman Rights Act BBC News - Cameron wants Human Rights Act Reviewed

He's crossing the 7-8 month mark at the moment..

For some more Yvonne Strahovski love.. Chuck Season 4 Blooper Reel

Trying to keep awake with a little Dragonforce..

One of those odd days where everyone in the family seems to be running tired and somewhat shattered. Not sure how much is helped on my it being a rather sweltering hot and sunny day, but battled a few waves of sudden exhaustion. Was sat working on some stuff at the computer, and out of the corner of the eye the puppy was being exceptionally pathetic. Sprawled out on the floor, the top half of his head visible around the corner, sorrowful brown eyes staring up and the pointy ears doing that little flutter-flick when he thinks you've noticed him. At least he isn't being a monster so far.

Hm, trying to do some research today.. and for some reason about 70% of the websites that I try to connect to just hang rather then open. Of course, places like the obsidian boards open fine .. so there doesn't seem to be a ryhme or reason for it...

Had one rough nights sleep and then a mental stutter of a day. Between mind blips, and that procrastination amid poking at various chores and work.. not much really got achieved. I kept expecting some focus to kick in, but now its turned midnight and still doing that flip-flop of thought. So I guess we will see if a nights sleep helps me recover some form of brainpower...

Prologue counts against pacifist achievement. Tranq. shot to head will on occasion kill as well. Yeah, I ensured my prologue was all non-lethal and sneakyness. And I had to keep reloading the "save the pilot from death" because things like the mech exploding kept killing off guys I'd ko'd in one way or another. So to get to the end and suddenly find that somewhere along the line... Ah well.

Just completed a playthrough that i could have sworn I took the utmost care to not kill anyone or set of any alarms.. and dang it, I still didn't get pacifist or foxiest of the hounds. I'm going to have to figure out what secondary reasons will have killed someone I knocked out....

350 years post KotOR if I recall correctly.

The acoustic version like this is so much better then the electronic one. Cruxshadows can be a bit hit or miss at times, but when they're good, they tend to be really good.

From EidosMontreal...

Outsourcing because they didn't have enough time. Whats interesting is that in a recent interview it was.. Dugas brought up that they'd realised they didn't have enough capability in the boss fights, and they couldn't achieve what they'd wanted to in the time they had, but that the game testers all had fun with them. So while they expected the "not deus ex feel" complaints about the boss fights they were still some shocked by the unrepentant hate of them... Also, that they had developed the boss fight in the upcoming dlc to actually be more in line with what they'd wanted to do for the actual game. So here's hoping that there's some form of improvement actually happening....