Beat Hazard Ultra + Girl Talk – All Day is so far 15% progress with a score of 3,503,088. No perks used anywhere so far.
This is the sort of game I bought the laptop for and it hits my gameplay itch right on. It is also a game where I believe the photosensitivity warning to be justified. I’ll hook up the HDMI so I can get the sound better but no way am I playing this on a screen any bigger than it is. Great game.
Lying in a field with the sunset on one side and the dog rolling in the long grass on another. Peaceful.
Have had to take the emergency can of Red Bull from the car – none left in the house!
Lying in a field surrounded by tall grass and butterflies while the dog romps around.
Does anyone reading this play the Blogshares markets?
Went bed around 10pm despite it feeling wrong. Took some pummeling to make a skull shaped dent in the pillow. Woke like a light at 1. Looked at watch, saw 1pm, swore and jumped out of bed about kicking the laptop off it’s stool. Get shower going, flicking through clothes, unplugged phone, put back on bed to put laptop in – and then saw the sliver of dark between the window panels. Don’t you hate it when that happens? Checked to see which device has a time I can trust and went back sleep – this time wary of actually oversleeping.
Can’t stream the BBC News here which is a bummer. (The bed alarm just went off. Literally now. And I’d never set it. Odd). Sky news I can get but it isn’t one I like, There are no english channels on the TV though I didn’t expect them and I didn’t travel all this way just to watch TV. I don’t do that at home.
Little hot water machine/kettle device. 2 sachets of Green Tea, 2 sachets of Toasted Tea. No coffee. Luckily I had bought 2 emergency 500ml cans of sugar-free Red Bull yesterday for just such situations. This means I can enjoy the tea rather than hoping for the necessary caffeine. This would seem to be the ideal time to quit the amount of caffeine I drink but then I’d have no vices. I would be pure of mind body and soul. And that wouldn’t be any fun would it? :)
Plan: after the toasted tea head toward the Backlog offices. I don’t care how long it takes or what route I take. Today I’ll be walking slow because I want to see, not look.
Just made the tea. Cup has no handles which makes it a small bowl then? And Toasted Tea smells like hot bran. I like bran and generally eat it out of a bowl but hm, Green Tea is it. Saw several Starbucks yesterday so all is safe there too.
Scots ‘drink 46 bottles of vodka’ says the completely sensationalist BBC.
I think the average bottle of vodka (750ml) contains 30 units (25ml / shot). The government want us to drink no more than 21 units a week but this number is completely made up, has no basis, is as useful as pretending that badgers should be fed cream buns every 23 days. So the headline is junk, the figures the headline is based on is junk.
The Scottish government said the figure, which had remained static since 2005, was the equivalent of 537 pints or 130 bottles of wine per person.
That’s not even 2 pints a day. So why the big deal, why the front page news story? You could probably say the same for the England Wales and Northern Island.
But then the reason becomes clear:
The truth is that Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon are promoting a scheme that will increase the profits of the supermarkets, but won’t provide a single penny for more police officers or alcohol treatment.
The Labour Party are using this completely junk news story to have a go at the SNP and the BBC are promoting that. In the interests of fairness did they ask the SNP for a view? No, because if they had that would have been noted in the article.
The BBC. Entirely untrustworthy.
I felt like I was treated very badly … It was very stressful. I had a terrible headache and felt quite ill. I nearly collapsed in the store and they had to call a First Aid helper for me.’
Bet you can’t guess what this is about. Link.
A day of no twitter, no adium, no skype and very limited email. Did I get more done? I did. Was it done better for having no distractions? It was. So will I do it again? Yep.
Richard Hammond is coming to the village at the weekend. There are two industrial towers that need to be blown up so him and a BBC crew will be there to film the event or blow it up even. I’ve got one of those Flip camcorders so I’ll be there filming the filming and taking many pics for J’s website. Played with some film I took of the foxes in the back garden in imovie and it’s passable. Tomorrow iphoto gets to meet a copy of the photos. No way it’s going near the originals yet.
Eldest is now a qualified lifeguard. Weird when your kids grow up and you realise that they are actually responsible. So she’s happy. Youngest wants a moped for her birthday….was watching her play Battlefield 1943 earlier. She is amazing. Hits ~300+ every game, gets killed hardly at all. Stark contrast to what I can do.
Asda manager phoned. Not sure how he got our number yet. He appreciated that the store was not at fault and my praise for his staff was well received. Using the phrase ‘touch base with you’ made me cringe though.
And apart from that I still weigh too much. So ends today’s trivia.
I’m leaving asmallorange – been there ages – and moving all bar one site to Dreamhost (it stays at nearlyfreespeech). Just realised while sitting here in bed that instead of using their one-click installs I could use svn for all the blogs. 2.9 here and 2.8.3 elsewhere. Really easy upgrades then. Two sites left to move – bri’s and J’s. Former gets shifted tomorrow and J’s at the weekend (not that it matters to you). Then download another copy of each site as a zip and close the account.
Games – completed CoD4. Excellent, very much enjoyed. Completed Cod World at War. A letdown in comparison. The war footage was good but I bet most playing it had no clue what they were actually seeing. Battlefield 1943 is good fun. Need to do more Dead Space and start Resistance: Fall of Man. I did get FUEL but only because I found a copy for a tenner. Not awesome. Doubt I’ll keep it. Second time playing SOCOM tonight. Need to play it more. Good game but tricky to shoot people.
Mac mini died, apple store fixed it and D’s keyboard was missing a Shift key which was faulty. Cost of replacement was £0.00 which suited her budget perfectly. Suited mine more as I was the paymaster there. As it should be of course. D was 19 last week. Went out on her birthday with her sister. One of her “friends” rang the bar where they were and told them that P was 15 so that got both of them out of it. Which wasn’t nice.
All very mundane stuff.