Leaked!
According to the BBC News site, Rose, the first epsode of the new series of Doctor Who, is at large on the internet somewhere.
There's been some debate in our house about how we want to watch the first episode (and indeed the following ones), and one thing I'm entirely certain of is that 'via a pirate copy on a computer screen' wouldn't ever have been in the running.
Stunned And Amazed
Yesterday morning I had what I can really only describe as a Changing Rooms moment. Except that I used words that you're not supposed to use when Carol Smilie says "Open Your Eyes!".
Chris and Brian are staying at my place at the moment while they decide what they're going to do in the long term about where they live, and they offered to do some bits and pieces around the place while they're there.
These are the kind of things I've wanted to do myself for a while but not got round to because of time constraints more than anything.
I went round yesterday to catch up with them and found the place transformed. They've redecorated, put down a new floor, reorganised the kitchen and changed the worktops and sink, and generally made the place look like a new flat. I love every single thing they've done.
I knew everything they were thinking of, but had simply not expected them to get anything like as far in the time.
It puts my inertia on the matter to shame.
Thank you both *so* much.
WoW
I've mentioned previously that being with David has introduced me to a world of video gaming that I'd previously done no more than dabbled in...
Since last I mentioned this subject (when I completed both Haloes), I've had relationships of varying seriousness with X-Men: Legends, Fable and I've completed Ratchet and Clank 2 and made significant inroads into Ratchet and Clank 3.
While I was away David started playing World of Warcraft, and when I got back he introduced me to it.
There's a word which gets used a lot when games are being discussed, which is 'immersive'.
I now entirely understand how entirely immersed in a game one can get. This thing is amazing: properly challenging in an other than 'shoot-shoot-shoot' way, with the opportunity to have decisions about skills you pick up and life choices you make actually impact on the way the game goes, and all packaged up in some stunning graphics and the ability to play alongside other players in either short or long term parties that mean the model in which you play can change all the time.
Yes, I cannot deny it. This is me, openly raving about a computer game....