The Importance of Being Idle

The Return Of The Magnificent!

As I say to frequently, it has been a while. Many things have happened, some good, some bad. Here is a quick summary;
I had a small windfall which made me oddly neurotic about spending money, but which then allowed me to buy a PSP (the 3000 model) and get my car fixed and through it's MOT. And then it was all spent and now I am skint again. But I still have a PSP and I do love it oh so very much. Even though I am terrified of actually taking my portable games machine anywhere.
There has been a lot of work, which led to a small measure of financial security for a short while, but which also made me tired and realise that no amount of money is worth the things you miss out on.
Becky moved in officially, and brought her pet bunny Rocket with her, and he's a very cute bunny, although he does like to chew electrical cables every now and then. Becky also had her 21st birthday and we celebrated that rather extravagantky with a months worth of events and entertainments. It was bloody good, but oh so very tiring.
We got kittens. Our little family is now complete.
Oh yeah and the old PC died and has been replaced with a new one which is much more modern, and even has a funky widescreen LCD HD monitor. Welcome to the 21st century!
That about brings us up to date really.
Oh yeah and JJ Abrams reboot of Star Trek came out and if I hadn't mentioned it I am quite sure nobody would remember but I did express some rather negative opinions about this way back when it was first announced, and while the movie may not have been Trek as those of us who know and love it knew it and loved it, it was Trek in new and exciting ways and I am more than happy to admit I was wrong. Also Transformers 2 came out, and whilst many many people criticised it for essentially being the kind of big, educationally sub-normal blockbuster that it was, I really don't know what it was in Michael Bays filmography that had led them to expect anything different. Face it, the only other direct sequel the man had was to Bad Boys and if Bad Boys 2 was anything, it was the original movie with any sense of restraint taken out. And Revenge of the Fallen was just the same; more robots, more explosions, more opportunities to offend, in fact just more. I really rather enjoyed it.
Rather unfortunately life is largely dominated by work at the moment. For a while it has been dominated by the rather large amount of work I've had to do and how little free time I've had, but just recently it's been dominated by how little work there has been of late, or rather more accurately how little of the available I am being given at the moment. And whilst I do enjoy the extra time at home with the mittens and for gaming on the rather awesome new PC, I am also strongly disliking being stuck with all the late nights because nobody else wants them, and of course all the late nights mean less quality time at home which isn't at all good. I worry, with pretty good cause, that I just don't have enough money, not even for the ordinary things, let alone anything odd and/or entertaining. So it goes.
The first teaser for James Camerons Avatar has finally hit the net and I've had a mixed reaction. On the one hand, it's Cameron and his sci-fi is interesting and worth watching, and it does look very very pretty. On the other hand for all his talk of photo realism it looks like a CGI cartoon (at least on the teaser so far) at times and what I can assemble of the story from the teaser so far is that what we have here isn't Aliens or The Terminator, but Dances With Wolves in space. With cats. So Dances With Space Cats then. Still HAVE to see it though!

posted by BadMonkey @ 4:41 PM