Raithe

Survived an insomnia filled weekend and now onto the week... It's been about an hour since my sister left for work and left the puppy without her company..and so far it's chased the cat a bit and pissed on the rug...

It wasn't too bad.. But it wasn't that great. The filler waves of enemy for no real reason were a little annoying.

Don't tell me Ezio killed Cesare Borgia or I'll write an angry letter to Ubisoft. Well.. he doesn't kill him directly. He pushes him off a building during the fighting in 1507 in the City of Viana, Spain. I'm pretty sure the impact with the ground did kill him tho....

Is it odd that I think that they won't even mention the mother because of the fact that she was probably just a prostitute? Was there ever any mention of Caterina Sfroza had any other kids post 1500?

Hm, I keep losing track of things today. What I'm doing, what I'm planning on doing, where I put things. Then it's those sudden flashes of "oh yes, that's what I was about to do" getting things sorted and then suddenly blanking on other tasks or what I was meaning to plan for...

And the whole "Broken-Hearted" sequence of missions / flashbacks is handled quite well

Bizzare dreams and disturbed sleep made for such an enjoyable night... But the morning moves on and various things get dealt with ...

He was also the House Mate / friend in Alias for about 40-50 episodes... but most people tend to think of the Hangover still..

Limitless - Entertainingly watchable. Doesnt' really push the depth, but it rolls along nicely. The slightly trippy melange towards the middle of the film shifts the pace, but it bounces around a few fun areas before a nicely crowning finish. And yes, Bradley Cooper is working well to shift out from being "that guy from The Hangover".

Just be careful of the links to the Ministry of Silly Walks. Also.. "I have minions who run for me."

"If you see a bomb technician running, follow him."

Although I flipped onto an album of classic songs for background... Wonderful World I Heard it Through the Grapevine Stand By Me When A Man Loves A Woman C'mon Everybody and even more... See, now this stuff was classic old when I was born.. And I can still sound like an old man by going "where's the modern music to match that?"

Have you ever noticed that when people overhear the sound of "Staying Alive" playing nearby..they start to walk with a bit more bounce..or even strut along the pavement?

It's always a touch quirky when you push yourself jogging and notice you're field of view is tightening into tiiiny little tunnels and you suddenly realise that's due to oxygen starvation and you better stop and breathe properly.. It's always the little things..

I've got the soundtrack to that.. used to use it for the old Eberron campaign background music..

That's always possible I suppose.. Although with the amount of prep and tech-wizadry a good stage magician needs I can't see it working too well on the fly.. but it could be funky as an idea for some set-up location.. I guess with the small amount of actual Awakened talents in the SR world it might not matter overmuch.. but it was a random area that struck me. SR make pains to talk about music, trideo, and sports in the world.. I just couldn't recall anything about the slight of hand / stage magic being mentioned as such.. Something to kick around at random times when I'm in the right mood to think about it I guess. Or maybe I've been watching too much of The Cape recently and thinking how a few smoke pellets combined with triggered Invisibility spells could look..

Been one of those mornings where everytime I've tried to sit down to drink my cup of tea... it's been another case of "oh, can you just deal with this" wrap up that task, go to sit down and drink and it's "while your up can you do the other" .. on repeat. I've finally managed to sit down.. and my tea is cold.

Finished AC:Brotherhood over the weekend.. Did feel more like an expansion to AC2 rather then a standalone game.. but entertaining.

At least it wasn't a falling cow...

Yeah, I know. And he recently lost his IT related job with the local Constabulary because his old housemate (who also works there) let slip to the bosses his occasional foray into pharmacutical recreation.. Eh, We're talking the guy who spends one week talking about the boobs on a girl and the nasty sex she likes for a one night stand .. and then meets up with her again and brings her to a restaurant meal with everyone he told about her.. And he's the type who says romance and love is purely a juvenile thing that everyone grows out of and isn't real. Not bad, quite cute, and bout 4'10. Which is kind of funny cause he's 6'3. Of course, but there are personal standards and levels of honour. Wild and Wacky that they might be.

I've got a friend who cannot be single. He has to be dating/seeing someone and feels really uncomfortable and depressed if he's not actually in a relationship. Of course, that's also balanced by the guy who never has a relationship longer then 3 weeks and is usually a different one-night stand most weeks. And the guy who met a girl while teaching at a science summer camp in America (one of the other staff, not a student pervs) and for the last 5 years they've kept the relationship going flying back and forth between her place (Mexico City) and his place here. And of course me, who.. well frankly I haven't really gotten over my last ex and while I've tried a whole batch of things, I kind of think it's not really kosher to date a girl while you're still picturing someone else's face...

Well, you have to balance out how many big-win lottery winners end up going broke because they buy all this stuff..and never have enough to actually maintain it. Invest a chunk, clear the mortgages of the family.. possibly help a couple of friends. Split a few accounts up.. make sure one pays the bills out of interest earned And one for "petty cash spending". Have a couple of seriously custom designed Alienware pc's set up in a funky lan around the house... Consider the personal training, both physical and several random subjects that might interest me. Definitely look into some world travel... oh, and flying lessons.. possibly sailing lessons.. Really go to work on setting up a proper place for my home library.. fiction, non-fiction and rpg related.. and seriously expand it. And there's the part of me that's also inclined to hire a few PI's to stalk the ex and find out just how well her life is really going these days..

Now there is a furry addition to the family. A couple of months old Alsatian puppy that my sister has brought home.

And in regards to annoying consoley save/check points.. Whats the darned point in having checkpoints in a mission that you can't actually reload from? Things go belly up and you have to restart from the beginning of the freaking mission. Which means going through 5 minutes of the same crap you can do in your sleep to get to the point that's actually hard. It's these little niggles that can begin to bug you about even a good game.

Picked up AC:Brotherhood for pc as it was somewhat inexpensive. Got started playing it and having some fun today... And then hit one of those 90 second timed runs and it's annoying the hell out of me. Either I stand still and waste seconds moving the camera to the right positions every few moments.. or the camera swings wildly as I run and I end up bouncing off the wrong thing , jumping the wrong way or just falling off blocks... It's like.. if I stop it takes ages for the camera view to move.. if I'm running, it's wildly oversensitive. When I'm running around the city I don't seem to have this problem..so maybe it's just something weirdly mental..