The Importance of Being Idle

All Alone In The Night

Still not feeling a lot better today (managed to fall over in the bathroom during the night, which is less than ideal - it's not a big room and there isn't a lot of room for falling over without hurting yourself or getting wedged in somewhere), but at least Shaz is and she's back at work (she came home feeling ill not long after I posted yesterday, and despite my best efforts to look after her was a terrible patient!), so that's something.
I've done a couple of things I've not done for a while, and I'm surprised how cool they still are. Firstly I've re-installed Neverwinter Nights (and it's expansion packs) and started playing that again. I just happened to see it on my shelf the other day and thought it might be fun, and lo! it is. At least so far, but then it's one of those games where "so far" goes as far as you'd like in whatever direction you'd like. It is still a very impressive piece of work indeed, and makes me wonder what they could possibly have put in NWN2 to make it worth purchasing. The other thing was that I noticed that the first dozen episodes of Babylon 5 were on our "on-demand" TV service, so I thought I'd watch an episode. Now, I loved B5 back in the day, but I remember the first episode seeming stagey and low budget and with lots of shouting and wild over-acting, but looking at it now I'm amazed how fully formed B5 came into being. Okay I think those criticisms still probably stand, at least for the first 10 minutes or so, but then you get suddenly lost in the plot (which is incredibly daring for a first episode, and very definitely says that this is the anti-Star Trek from the get go). So I'll probably go and watch a couple more of those for the rest of the afternoon, whilst possibly making lemonade.

posted by BadMonkey @ 3:12 PM