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That was a pretty mighty weekend on the whole. Friday was awesome. I saw F4:RotSS and decided on a whim to also go and see Die Hard 4.0. Die Hard 4.0 was awesome! I am so going to have to go see it again (and again...)

On Saturday I bimbled off to go look at new TVs. There being a distinct lack of stores that sell TVs these days did hamper my attempts, but I think I've decided that 46" should be enough for me. I was very impressed with the Sony W model and X model - other makes of LCD TV seemed to be pretty poor in comparison. Now I just need to decide whether to go for the W or the X models. The W comes with a free LCD TV (*boggles*) and the X comes with a free DVD recorder but is 50% extra in price.

In the evening I bimbled in to London for a vamp game. As usual the main room wasn't busy - everyone was stood outside smoking. Still, the bits when people did make an effort to use willpower to suspend their addiction were quite fun. I even won a hand of poker, although my luck didn't last long and I lost all my chips.

Sunday was spent vegging in front of the TV. Finally finished watching GIT:SAC 2. I was going to watch just the one disk, but they left it at such a cliffhanger I had to watch the last one too.

Having discovered that Pan's Labyrinth had come out on DVD, I just had to get a copy. And like most addicts, once I'd started buying stuff from Amazon, I couldn't really stop and I bought a whole load of other stuff too ;)

I must pull my finger out and get my film list updated. Mostly it involves rewriting the code so that I can add items easier using the code I've written for the IFIS library.

Anyway, despite going for the free, but slow delivery, it's arrived only a couple of days after I ordered it, which is muchly good. Although the timing ain't so great as it's a Monday and I have a bag full of games to take up to GameSoc as well. Might have to pop home at lunchtime to drop stuff off.

Apart from the various brainy things I've been doing the past couple of days (like the tribe map), I also went and saw Ghostrider. It was pretty good - just what I'd expected it to be. And the eye-candy was very pleasing to the eye as well.

I've been very brave today. I finally distangled the mass of cables on my desk, shutdown my old desktop and finally put the new one in it's place. Poor old desktop. It has served me well.

Yesterday had to be the wettest day so far. Luckily I didn't have to spend too much time out in it. There was a trip to some random pub for lunch with blue_cat and a plethora of other folk for her birthday. And then we went back and attempted, and failed, to devour a mountain of donuts. At some point when I work out how, I'll copy the photo I took of using the new phone of blue_cat trying to blow out candles that were on the donuts.

ION, my new phone has got free minutes on it, so I've also prodded Orange to kill the old one. Lets see if they can deactivate the right one. The monkey on the phone was horribly confused by me saying I had a new phone with Orange and wanted to deactivate the one I was calling from. He briefly tried to convince me to stay with Orange *rolls eyes*

Well that was a very mixed weekend. Friday I spent most of the night playing Second Life and got to bed very very late. The dirigible is coming along nicely though. The front is half is plate glass, so you can see the world around - I'm tempted to turn the floor into the same so you can see the ground below too. It's got two doors that open out into platforms so you can get onboard.

I really should start taking pictures or something. Then when I lose one, I can ask people if they've seen it. And, yes I lost another one and this time couldn't find it. I suspect it got deleted in a server reboot - good thing it doesn't cost me anything to make :)

Despite getting to bed very late, I managed to wake up at a reasonable enough time to drag myself down to the station to meet up with folk for the highly dangerous IFIS trip to Namco. I won't recount the horror of all the violence and death that occurred as even now it still haunts my dreams. Those of us that survived to the end did manage to escape with a poker set and a desktop dart board.

Afterwards myself and the_grim_squeak went to Southwark Requiem. It was OK although mildly ruined by most of the PCs not returning IC to the court when it changed venues. I guess they were busy chasing after what ever had caused the need for us to change venues *shrug*.

When I got back I stayed up stupidly late again. Oops. I decided that I'd be better off recovering rather than getting up in time for fight practice on Sunday. But the day wasn't entirely wasted as I cleared out a load of duplicate stuff from the PVR and watched a bunch of stuff. But more usefully (prehaps?), I did a bit of creative art. It's an alternative logo for the IFIS site - I figured we could do with something a bit fantasy related. So I came up with this - what do people think? Yes, I know it's unfortunately Harry Potter - but it was the first thing that sprung to mind. Extra points (deducted?) to whoever can work out which film it's from too ;)

A fairly average 3rd weekend all told. I watched "Just My Luck" - a gifting from noseynick's clan - on Friday.

Saturday I didn't really end up doing much during the day and then there was Dark Ages in the evening where nemy and lawrencegillies put on a fine xmas (we're a month behind gametime) celebration. The highlight of which was the Blind Man's Bluff game, in which nemy made a lunge for lawrencegillies and ended up grabbing him by the family jewels.

On Sunday I managed to drag myself up the hill to stick my head in on fight practice. Didn't do much except watch and eat as I'd had far too little sleep from spodding online 'til stupid o'clock in the morning. Plus I think I might need a bit of a refresher as it seems like ages since I've picked up a sword.

izzy_stradlin came by to unpack/move stuff in some more with eggwhite in the evening. I had no idea she had so much stuff. It's little wonder she needs a place of her own to store it. I also watched Contact which has a very sad ending - at least for the main character. I think the bureaucrats need slapping upside the head. I wonder what the book is like.

There's a new type of Muller Light out. Rather than being yogurt with fruity bits mixed in, they've taken the mixing part out of the process and left the fruity stuff at the bottom and plain yogurt on top.

I've had a moderately interesting few days. The pub was very quiet on Thursday. VERY quiet. At least for our little tribe. Ended up going home early cos it was so quiet. Did some shopping and got some shiny things. Went to the London game. The journey there and back was doubley fun as not only was there engineering works around Barnes/Clapham, the Northern line is being done too. Amazingly I managed to get home. On Sunday my mum took me out to lunch.

I'm starting to wonder if my housemates are imaginary or not. I've got 2 of them (one going - one coming) and I never see either of them. I just see signs of them going or coming...mostly the latter admittedly - need to kick the former up the bum to do more going I think.

There's other stuff too that I don't want to talk about as I've learnt from last time that it'll only cause a massive shitstorm and it should be far easier to sort things out behind the scenes without a fuss.

IFIS Xmas dinner went very well. The food was delicious. In complete constrast to last year, we ended up with more money than required rather than less.

Spent Sunday doing very little.

Tonight, for the first time in (my very poor) living memory, GameSoc is holding some kind of festive celebration. Should prove interesting.

There I was just about to leave the house when I saw too shadowy figures through the glass in the front door, walking up the path. Sure enough they rang the bell. "Oh, you're about to go out...[insert far too much god bothering]". They weren't listening to a thing I was saying - I was lucky to ever get away.

Last night wasn't the greatest. Stupid sound system kept shutting off whilst we were watching Dogma. Divine Intervention? We ended up giving up before Alan Rickman showed up and heading straight to the bar. Surprisingly, I think we got pretty much everyone. And I managed to sign up most of them for the xmas meal too.

Then I demonstrated that I am a natural blonde by failing utterly to get to where the library was kept. I pushed the door but there was something behind it blocking it. I got one of the barstaff to help and she just opened the door the other way. Doh! Books all look OK despite their neglect from the membership not wanting to read them. Plus I got to locate our copy of Wind in the Willows to see if it really was nearly 100 years old. It's not - it was printed 1980/81. Stupid Amazon providing the wrong date.

I hate the new speed humps around Founders. Or rather the local taxi companies do. So they're insisting on meeting folk around by the clock tower so they don't have to go over them. *grumps* Means I have to go and walk to meet up with them.

No sign of improvement in the knee situation yet :(

Moderately interesting weekend. Friday I ran possibly my last ever Mage game. Depends on the ST election. Made sure the players remembered that there was plot in the game though, so they spent the game trying to deal with it for a change.

Saturday I went to a Halloween party as Jack Pumpkinhead, although it seems very few people had heard of the character. Other peoples' costumes varied in recognisablity. nuuki and cream_horn's costumes were probably the most trauma inducing. I love dirt cake (or should that be pudding?)

Sunday I dragged myself up to watch fight practice. The pub wasn't doing any food when we got there which was annoying as I was looking forward to having a roast. Spent the afternoon catching up on telly. Still not sure about Torchwood.

All systems are back at 100%. I had a moderately good nights sleep which was only spoilt by some sod deciding it was a good idea to pop by at 4am. Can't have been too important as I rolled over and heard nothing more.

I watched the film Confidence last night. Whilst it's nowhere near as good as The Usual Suspects it is still very a twisty turny film that'd make even a corkscrew look straight.

Pub tonight will be...interesting.