Random stuff and a quiz result
Lots of random things
Weird dreamings...
I was playing some sort of 3-D shooting / giant-robot game, and one of my weapons was some sort of whip that I could use to catch explosive globes. One tactic that the game really emphasised was to somehow wrap a whole bunch of these globes around an opponent and then shoot them. Only, it was very very hard to control the whip. I was really struggling with the controls, attempting to use this tactic, and finally succeeded...
...and then the dream abruptly changed - the globes sort of stopped exploding, and suddenly it was a classroom environment, and the enemy had changed into a spider and then a banana (I am *not* making that up) and the teacher-figure started lecturing me about... something. I forget exactly, but I think it was about how that tactic, while it was really powerful, shouldn't be used. "Think about the poor big old banana," she said.
I woke up, thinking, "What the hell?"
I think my subconscious might be telling me I play too many games. To which I have to say, I *know*, dammit.
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Still on the topic of games - I made a very big mistake recently, and reinstalled Neverwinter Nights.
All my time has suddenly disappeared into it. Argh. *Now* I remember why I uninstalled it.
Still, taking down an archdevil with naught but my BARE HANDS was fun.
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In anticipation of a certain movie coming out shortly, I went and read the Star Wars III - Revenge of the Sith novelisation. I wasn't particularly worried about spoilers, because I'd been spoiled to most of it already. Figured I might as well go the whole hog.
I won't give any spoilers here. All I'll say is that if the movie lives up to even *half* of the promise of the book, then it'll be great to see.
Also, I'm pretty sure that the movie will be a very different beast. Just judging from the trailers that I've seen, there will be a lot less of the talking and political maneuvering, and a lot more action. But again, if the movie lives up to half of the promise of the book, then it'll still be good.
And besides, the emergence of Vader is something we've been waiting for for SIX YEARS, ever since we were presented with Jake Lloyd and told he would grow up to be James Earl Jones. Seeing that finally happen on the big screen has got to be worth the admission price.
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Still on movies, I have yet to see the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie, though I meant to go see it this past weekend. Reviews I've seen suggest that it's solid but not great. I don't particularly mind. I shall definitely go and see this one, as soon as I can.
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The past couple of weeks at work have been INSANE. First we had a slight reshuffle of things so that there were less people actively on the helpdesk - instead of three, now there are only two, me and coworker Michael. This was not so bad.
No, the bad thing was that on the same week of the official changeover, I was given a code release to perform. A release is normally a four-day process, and as it was the first one I've ever done it took longer than normal. Then it was complicated when some last-minute changes were required. And all the time, I was worrying about the helpdesk and how I wasn't able to work on it.
Cue the week after that, which started normally and then an emergency release was required. That took up one and a half of very hectic days, and again I had no time for the helpdesk. I swear, I ended up a nervous wreck after all that.
This week had better be NORMAL, otherwise... otherwise... well, I'd go insane. Or at least be driven to 2Xtreme! Aggaravation.
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