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March 12, 2005
"Run For Your Life!"
A few more weeks go by and I return to my blog... still, I have a reason! I'm now 35. Thirty five. Thirty-bloody-five! I'm at the right age for my mid-life crisis, and I'm now officially on the shelf. If that isn't worth celebrating by pretty much ignoring it, nothing is!
So, what has been going on these past few weeks? Well, Keltica is now level 18 and Hathor has hit level 12! Andrew has returned from the wilds of wherever he has been for the past few months and is totally getting into JO - shame I'm getting out of it! James is getting some up to date and even vaguely interesting games at last, though he missed the biggest download of recent months (no doubt he'll say he 'wasn't interested' - this from the guy who says 'if I have the bandwidth I can't let it go to waste!').
Work-wise? let's not mention it. Driving-wise? Well, if parking on Towneley Holmes car park and nearly getting hit by idiots skidding for fun in the snow we had recently is fun, I had some. Comic-wise I didn't get as much done as I hoped, though I decided that DT will go back to being inked normally due to a couple of reformats and the fact that my tablet is not working quite as well as it should do in Photoshop (though I.T. is still in Illustrator). I started with a cool ...Whatever! today about being 35.
One big bit of news I got this week is that I have another pre-operative examination on my ankle, with a proposed date for the op itself on 12th April. Unless they cancel because I'm now back on betablockers... This means that I won't have to deal with all the ever-increasing workload at work - I got 24 new cases between Wednesday afternoon and Friday morning - I'm sure Andrew thinks thats a snap to deal with... shame theres a huge waiting lst for them to go on! Still, I intend to spend as many days as possible trying to get on top of it (seeing 10 people a day for 3 days a week with appointments as late as 7.00pm, and seeing a few less on the other two as I have paperwork to do so those 30+ people get their equipment!). That should stress me out wonderfully for the operation...
Hmm - finally, let's add a spoiler-free review of Rose, the first episode of Doctor Who. It's good. Not quite what I expected, but close. Funny (more quotable lines than half a season of Buffy, and this is just episode 1!) and still scary... James won't like it, though! Billie Piper is far better than I thought - though I had hopes - she looks good, sure, but she plays Rose so well you can almost forget those singles... I know I try to! Chris Eccleston is a good Doctor - he may take some time to grow on people, but he is cool - and a northern Doctor means I can speak like him! Fx are pretty good (bar one sequence, but that may be because it wasn't finished properly) and the music is fine (though it is a little intrusive unless you wear headphones on the download, and the episode on the net doesn't have the new theme which is really quite good (but James won't like it). The bottom line? Forget certain bad reviews (AICN doesn't know what it is talking about) - this is fun - well done RTD - I'll be there on the 26th, and so will many more people, I can promise you. But this isn't James' Doctor Who...!
Until I see you again... just remember to pop by the comic sites occasionally!
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