The Importance of Being Idle

Sniffle

Now here's irony: after casting a spell to make me better, Ronnie promptly gave me her cold and I've spent the last few days sniffling or coughing so hard I thought I was gonna pass out. On the plus side I have such a generally crappy feeling that I don't know if I'm still dizzy or not (although the dizzy spell I just had on the way back from the shops would tend to make me think that I am).
So I've not been up to a lot for the past few days; mainly sleeping and feeling sorry for myself, although the sleeping hasn't been terribly successful. I've been having weird dreams, waking up constantly and just generally having a shitty time of it. I have watched an awful lot of the extra features on the extended editions of the Lord of the Rings movies though. In fact I've only got a few things to go on The Return of the King, and it's all starting to get a bit emotional now, but it really is amazing to see all the work that went into those movies (and how little idea anyone had what it was going to turn into when it was finished!). We've just had Viggo's last day, and even he (or perhaps especially he) got emotional at the end. I also loved the way that on Elijah's last scene Pete just couldn't say call it to a halt and kept calling for take after take even thought they'd already got the shot. Soppy bugger.
We had no water yesterday, which was a surprise. Apparently there was a leak just up the road, but we only know this second had because despite the water company apparently leafleting all the effected houses so we'd know there wasn't gonna be any water until the early hours of this morning, nobody told us a goddamn thing! Still, we got by, I mean it was only one day, and the hot water tank filling up again woke me (surprise!) at about two o'clock this morning so it was over relatively quickly and there was hot water this morning!
The Spiderman 3 trailer is supposed to be going live today, but I expect it won't be until god knows when in the morning UK time, so it'll probably be the first thing I look at tomorrow when I finally wake up.
In other things that aren't getting me excited yet, the Japanese launch of the PS3 is just days away and... I don't care. The line-up of launch software is pitiful (okay, I'd have Resistance and RR7), and I just don't have that kind of money to spend on a games machine. In fact I think a lot of the whole "next gen" thing is leaving me behind because the features they trumpet so loudly (hi def, online play, media centre functionality) just aren't things I want or need, or even care about. I don't have a hi-def TV and am not likely to have one in the next year, I dont play online on my PC or Xbox and have no interest in doing so, and I don't want (or need!) a blu-ray player! I think maybe gaming is breaking up with me. Not that it matters, I've still got my Xbox, a GameCube and an very incomplete collection of great games to play so it's not like I'm gonna run out of things to do anytime soon, and when I fancy something new I'll just get myself a PS2 and immersive myself in all those lovely Final Fantasys I've not been able to play yet...

posted by BadMonkey @ 3:13 PM