geeky stuff

23 Jun

Its 2 years since James nearly killed me. And 7 other people. Including himself.

That  title is an exaggeration. Almost.

Anyway, 5 months since I last blogged… huh. I’ve been busy.

I bought carpet!

And a fridge!

And lots of wood, and bricks, and some door handles, and a sink. And a bunch of other things (I can’t be bothered listing everything). They all came neatly packaged in a big a thing called ‘a house’. Well most of it did, I had to later add some of those things. Ikea is too close.

The whole process was pretty  straitforward/insanely over complicated depending on how you look at it… offers… offer accepted… mortgage…mortgage accepted… sit and wait for contracts to sign… then wait for other side to sign contracts… encourage lawyer to annoy other lawyer to ask his client to hurry up… get a call… get some keys… walk up to my own home and walk in. Fun.

Now I have a room full of my junk, and several other rooms full of board games and computers. And this slightly-zoomed-in wonderful view, right behind the computer i type this on:
It's like those vampire books, except good.

 

And some super unfriendly cats that keep staring at me… then running away. Or hissing. There were photos, but apparently they can remotely destroy any photos taken of them.

 

So, I’ve been working on making the place as mine as I can… though I still haven’t really decorated. There’s furniture… mostly black furniture… some’s brown! And then there’s the board game stuff…

Most of my board games. Most…

And, the table I spent 2 months building:

Black dot is a Carcasonne Meeple, for scale. I had no bananas.

Whole thing is modular and expandable… 2m x 1m, up to 2.75x1m. Ish. I’m gonna replace the green felt with some sort of starscape for space games, and the little square things work as dice trays. Legs are detachable, so it can be armchair height, or dining room table height. It does, however, weigh a ton.

Most work I’ve ever done with wood, and I had splinters. Owies.

I’m considering adding things to make it extend automagically, and… other… fun things. Possibly involving touchscreens.

Other things I’ve been doing involve the mystical Ikea, like this lampshade:

Its not on fire.

It comes in lots of bits and its cable is WAY too long. (this is an older photo, things have been tidied up since then.) It shrinks into a sphere when you pull the cord. And makes things darker. Like mood lighting, cause I haven’t rigged the lights into computers… yet.

So, here I am, wondering one main thing… how to decorate. All of my rooms are off white or… whatever this colour is:

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I think its kind of green. And most of furniture is brown/black So, I’m looking for ideas, ideas which are appropriate for me, Dave. Not a teenage girl. Nor a 27 yr old woman. But yes, good ideas are welcome. Or wall furnishings. Like pictures.

As mentioned in my last blog (though no one answered the question) the answer was R2-D2. Obviously.

And thus, I’m done.

Dave.

 

17 Jan

Lookout! I don’t know why… but do it anyway.

So, after my rant in December about printers, I’ve now used a printer in 2014 more than i ever did in 2013… and just to annoy me it took about half an hour for the printer to work… grr. Evil lumps of stupidity. And plastic. but mostly stupid.

Anyway, houses… today I viewed a few places… 2 stood out as particularly bad… The first, the one I got up at 8 for, was an apartment about the size of a badminton court. The living room couldn’t fit a sofa… I’ve no idea how anyone could live in that small space, or pay so much for that.

The other… someone decided, at some point in its history, to remodel the entire inside building. they moved the bathroom, the kitchen, and added a conservatory, where one wall was basically just leaning on the outside wall of next doors extensions. The cistern for the old toilet was still visible behind the boiler, and the floor below the boiler was about to collapse. Then, despite the agents assurances the wiring had been redone recently, found three broken sockets, and several loose hanging cables. The walls looked like Iron man had used them as punching bags, with fist sized holes.

As I don’t want to die in my new home, I don’t think I’ll go for that one.

I am getting closer to finding a place though, hopefully will have some good news this week 🙂

And with that, I leave you with 2 things – a question:

If you were a robot, which would you be? Find out my answer, next time!

And a red panda.

D'aaawww

Dave.

31 Dec

This blog is not about puppies.

Hes tired and hes typing.

That may not be a good thing.

So…

Hi!

its been about 3 months since I last typed something here.

Amazingly, not a lot has happened, so you might be thinking you’ve started reading this for no reason, and nothing will come of this, but, I fear, your pessimism is badly placed! Something will come of your visiting this page today, I assure you! And so, to the business of entertaining you, and your fellow human beings! And the 2 cats that might read this! LETS GO.

House hunting is HARD. Mostly cause i have to do the whole financing thing first, but once thats done its just hard to see a good place to go viewing at the right price. There’s the ‘obviously need work’ ones… the ‘holy crap you made that look big but its obviously too small for a kitten’ ones, the “wait… where is exactly is that… oh.” ones, the “that’s a lot of flags….” ones, the “TIGER. THE NEIGHBOUR HAS A TIGER” ones, and finally the “I can’t see anything wrong with this, whats wrong with it, oh that’s a peace wall” ones.

Though I’m sure i’ll find a place sooner or later… Preferably one without an impending doom, and not overly pink. So very many of them are very pink…

Moving on… I have minions! Ish. For a bit. Not really. I’m training people. And making sure they do things right. In work, not other places… though if you consider yourself my minion let me know and I’ll make sure to treat you as you expect!

My obsession with boardgames has not diminished, much to my friends joy/consternation, and i now own 47 base games, with a few variants too bringing them to over 50. If anyone would like to organize a night to play said games, heres a list, and I am always ready to play 🙂

Since my last blog I turned 28, and that has led to absolutely no differences in my life whatsoever. So, next big thing…

Hmm..

I got a new phone! Yes, this seems to happen very often but this time, this time its different. This time its a Sony Z3 Compact. This time, it doesn’t need charged very often. This time… its awesome. It doesn’t bend.

A few things I found out in the last month:

  • Apparently I’ve mellowed out from being absolutely weird 5 years ago to just being a bit weird.
    • but the better kind of weird where my weirdnesses are actually useful.
  • Being polite is confusing to some people…
  • Steam trains are loud at 9AM..
  • I don’t know how to be more excited about episode 7 than I am already…
  • I can stay awake much later than i thought and still be functional…
  • Cats aren’t as evil as I once thought..
  • Tea isn’t that bad when its made in the right way…
  • I kinda want to build a snowman so you won’t get very far singing that song at me.
  • Its apparently normal to own a printer.

Ok, that last point, Printers. Printers are a horrible creation, a necessary evil of the pre internet age, that are only required by the unfortunate few. You see, I have printed around about 10 sheets of paper in the last 2 years, and I expect to print even less next year. Now, if i was to set up the printer I own, but is currently boxed up in the attic, it would cost me a good half hour to get working, another x amount of time to get ink for, and then theres paper. On the other hand if I were to print those few pages a year in work, or some other printing location it would cost less, take less time, and therefore be better. And thus, I have no need for a printer. Its not like I spend a chunk of my time printing photos of cats and sticking them up around my computer, or beside my bed….

Ok, so now i’ve un-necessarily argued against owning a printer, I think thats enough of a rant for tonight.

Good something*!

 

*Where something is a day, night, morning, cat, evening, or otherwise. I don’t know what kind of semantics pattern you have if you sleep 16 hours a day.

22 Sep

The back end of nowhere is kinda pretty

Its been a while!

Its September, the month of… something. What normally happens in September? Schools start back… but I don’t care about that anymore. OH. No… wait… I don’t care about holiday prices dropping… OH!I DO care about all my friends being in the country again! Except those that fled to England. Or Scotland. Or, in one case, America. Did I really scare you that much? I’m sorry! Come back! I won’t do it again!

 

Anyway…. today is the 22nd of September. Or the 23rd… if you’re reading it tomorrow. Or in Europe! Or further east! But more likely tomorrow… This means it is now 3 weeks till my 28th birthday, and I’ll come up with something to do then. Maybe. Its a tuesday, so… yeah.

So what did I do over the past few months? I did several things. lets go in reverse order, so I can remember them…

I got a promotion! I’m now a ‘Senior Software Engineer’. Appropriate as I’m about to turn 28…

I moved to Belfast! Again. This is likely explained better below. My dad no longer has a manse…(yay promotion!) so we get to live in the city now! A small apartment…

I moved to Greenisland again! For 3 weeks. That means parents, and that means less fun 🙁

I moved out of Belfast! Ruth came home and wanted her house back 🙁

The Word weekend happened! I have to do the audio… I should get round to that tomorrow… but it was awesome!

I bought a Drone! Its currently out of action after a… let’s call it an emergency landing. But it’ll be fixed up soon!

We started a Second RPG group! they were much faster than the other group… just saying…

Tech Camp happened! It was brilliant. I’m tired and running out of words…

Loughbrickland connect happened! People were shocked and amazed at my ability to get internet in the back end of nowhere… but I did! Kids were brilliant and it sucked to leave for the next thing… which is above…

July happened! I don’t remember July much… nor June. What happened in those 2 months? Did i get my car in June? No? It was May? Ok then. I got a new car! Its a DS3. Its not a girls car. Its awesome.

I went back in time! Wait. No. I’m not supposed to mention that. It hasn’t happened yet.

 

 

Smile, you’re not turning 28. 🙂

Dave.

 

 

 

Oh, yes, the title. I’ve spent a lot of time in the back end of nowhere. And managed to get signal there! I took photos. They were pretty. I’ll put them somewhere.

3 Jun

Edge of the Empire: Its a saga. An awkward confusing saga.

Hello!

So, as some of you are aware, I, am a massive geek, and the geekiest thing I do is lead 5 people through an adventure of their own imaginations in the Star Wars universe.

Seriously its fun, you should do it. I can help.

This is known as an RPG, and I’m the GM, or Game Master, if you like using whole words. The most popular RPG is Dungeons and Dragons, but this is a star wars version, known as Edge of The Empire. The players control characters and I control the environment, and dice make decisions on anything uncertain which is known as skill checks. So, a bunch of smugglers, bounty hunters, and a droid, are in this particular game. They each have their own elaborate backstory, motivations and obligations that they MUST abide by, and complete the objective of the adventure. If they want to do anything in secret, the players communicate with me over facebook.

I’ve recorded the last 2 sessions, but the first session needs some explanation:

The initial player characters:

Kith – Played by Vicki, a bothan bounty hunter and owner of the ship.

Nate Draan – Played by Dave Luke, a human smuggler

R5-T16 – Played by Ryan, An astromech droid with a few… modifications.

These 3 characters met in the first episode and managed to get a mission from a Twi-lek called Reom to hunt down a lost Seperatist ship from the end of the Clone wars, believed crashed in the outer rim. They were forced to flee the station they got the mission from after some entanglements with other treasure hunters, but did obtain the Droid they needed to find the location of the ship.

Characters introduced:

Chenni – played by Gerard, a Wookie, An angry wookie.

Valo – played by Matt, A Chiss Bounty Hunter.

Episode 2 can be found here:

Beyond The Rim Ep2

And the next episode, here:

Beyond The Rim Episode 3

There’ll be another session soon….

Dave.

13 May

A plea. A campaign if you will.

“You’re not pretty enough.”

“You’re too complicated”

“What even IS that thing?”

“Eww… vampires”

These are just some of the reasons given to not interact with them. They do not deserve this, they are just as worthy as the others, and deserve just as much love. They are misunderstood, and slotted into that ‘weird’ category to be brought out only with weird people.

But they just want to be brought out and enjoyed like the others, instead, they just sit there, in a dark room, effectively useless.

 

Did you know, 50% of my boardgames haven’t even been played? There’s hours of fun sitting in boxes that are lucky to have been opened… some haven’t even had their components sorted!

Theres a wealth of awesome worlds and universes to create stories in, and they’re just sitting there, empty and unused!

I don't love the puns. SO MANY HORRIBLE PUNS. but you might!
A universe of sheep! And Puns! Whats NOT to love?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A plethora of interesting aliens and monsters to befriend or kill!

Lovecraft is weird.
Like black men! (You shouldn’t kill black men)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Or this friendly critter!

Seriously, its a horror game.
Hes so lovable, and not terrifying at all!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ultimately, he fears for his games. That they’ll grow lonely and unloved…

This fecker cost me £12, I'd like to actually use him at some point.
This little guy just wants to blow up a tie fighter… won’t you let him?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TNG, season 4, episode 5. Just FYI.
Its like that episode, where the only thing in the universe is the enterprise. And its just sitting there, with Beverley going mad… He just wants to blow up a Romulan! BUT THERE ARE NO ROMULANS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They can't, they're plastic.
If these tanks could cry, it would be tears of loneliness. And tininess. They’re very small.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So please, consider playing the complicated games, and join Dave on a day hes going to organize at some point to play each of them. Or he’ll be kept awake at night by 15 sobbing board games.*

 

Dave.

 

 

 

*Don’t do the math on how much 15 board games are worth. Seriously. If you do… don’t double it. And definitely don’t rob my house. They’re not worth much second hand.

29 Apr

Something about a long time ago.

Hello! With todays interesting announcement relating to the greatest Space Opera of all time* and with my… slightly excessive** knowledge of the expanded Star Wars universe, I thought I’d make a post about this. Basically, theres a TON of stuff in the expanded universe that is highly relevant to the upcoming episode 7, (though a massive chunk of it will prob be ignored/abandoned) and it *MIGHT* help with understanding today’s casting announcement. This is a brief overview of the politics and gossip like things over the 30 years after return of the jedi. Its not that funny, just informative, so don’t bother reading if you’re not interested.***

Within the star wars universe time is measured as ABY, After Battle Of Yavin. We start 4 Years ABY.****

4 ABY
Galactic Politics:
Immediately after the death star 2 explodes the Rebel Alliance and Imperial star fleets are in disarray. The alliance won the Battle of Endor, destroying or capturing the majority of the imperial fleet stationed there, though a significant portion of the imperial fleet makes it way back to secure imperial space. The Rebel Alliance suffered significant loses however and are effectively on the back foot on the galactic scale.

Word of the Emperor’s death, Darth Vader’s death, and the major loss spreads throughout the galaxy, though the empire is still very strong. The Alliance forms the New Republic, as their new official government. Many more planets join the New Republic, though still less than 10% of the galaxy by 6.5ABY, bolstering the fleet through key shipyards.

Known Character ‘Drama’:
After Han and Leia’s little discussion on Endor while the death star explodes, Leia gets a bit busy establishing the New Republic, so their budding relationship gets a bit sidelined, as Leia is jetted off to the far corner of the galaxy on a diplomatic mission within hours. Han also had various responsibilities leading a battle group for the New Republic, with Chewie by his side.
Luke got to work establishing a New Jedi Order, with various missions destroying remnants of the Sith, and attempting to train apprentices.
C3PO stays with Leia, and R2D2 stays with Luke.

6 ABY
Galactic Politics:
The empire fail to take advantage of the weak rebel fleet after Endor, and soon Coruscant falls to the New Republic, with massive civilian and Rebel casualties, as the empire release a virus targeting nonhumans as they flee, and the imperial fleet is bolstered by a Super Star Destroyer, buried in Coruscant, which blasts its way through to flee into space. The virus is ‘cured’ within 2 years. More key planets join the New republic, and the Empire continues to struggle to find commmanding leadership, with the leader who lost Coruscant effectively denounced as insane.

Various warlords and groups have split off from the struggling Empire, taking star destroyers and even planets with them.

Known Character ‘Drama’:
Princess Leia continues to lead the government, though suffers various assassination attempts. Her relationship with Han grows more distant, and she considers marrying a Prince from the Hapes cluster for political reasons, but Han intervenes in typical fashion*****, Leia realizes she loves him, and they marry within the year.
Luke continues to hone his Jedi powers and looking for old surviving Jedi.

9 ABY
Galactic Politics:
The Chiss Grand Admiral Thrawn, the only non-human to attain Admiral rank in the imperial military, returns from a long term mission in the unknown region, and reunites the empire around him. A master tactician, he leads an imperial campaign against the new Republic, and does extremely well, blockading Coruscant. He is ultimately assassinated by his own bodyguard, right before a battle. Without his tactical brilliance the imperial fleet is in disarray, and the empire shrinks further.
A clone of Palpatine also tries to recover control, but is defeated by Luke.******

The Hutts attempt to build a superweapon, which is basically a death star – but just the laser and the basics, designed by the original deathstar designer. It explodes on its first use*******

Known Character ‘Drama’:
Leia and Han continue their marriage, and Leia becomes pregnant with twins. She gives birth to a girl and boy, Jaina and Jacen Solo, and then she becomes pregnant again, with another boy, who she names after her father, Anakin.
After defeating Palpatines Clone, Luke founds the New Jedi Order, and begins training Jedi. Some turn evil, and are defeated inturn.

BIG JUMP
19 ABY
Galactic Politics:
Empire is now known as “The Imperial Remnant” down to a marginal group of planets, still under martial law, though a group of Moffs run a council to manage civil affairs. With no major conflicts in 5 years, a truce was negotiated, and the galactic civil war was ended.

Known Character ‘Drama’:
Leia, and all her children are force sensitive, and have started training.
Luke goes on a mission******** with the former emperors hand, Mara Jade, whos turned to the light side. He falls in love, and they marry soon after, and have a child.

25 ABY
Galactic Politics:
After several years of peace, an unknown alien invades from another galaxy, called the Yuuzhan Vong. They are not seen in the force, and they use biological technology, that is extremely effective against the New republic technology, and light saber resistant. They are effectively unstoppable for the first stages of the war, fanatics that all life is inferior, and nonbiological technology is an abomination. They turn people into effective slave zoimbies, which they use as cannon fodder in battle.
The New Republic, bloated and slow struggles to respond, barely managing to cope with refugees, and has few victories.
The New Jedi Order attempt lead missions against the Vong, and take many losses.

Known Character ‘Drama’:
Han, Anakin and Chewy are on a planet at the forefront of the invasion, Sernpidal. The Yuuzhan Vong drop a moon on the planet, a tactic they use many times. Han joins the evacuation effort, packing the falcon to the brim, but chewy and anakin are the last to get to the ship. Chewy throws the young anakin onto the boarding ramp and Han is forced to leave as the moon crushes his friend. Distraught, Han takes years to accept the events of that day.
Luke, Mara, Jaina and Jacen lead many missions against the Vong.

27 ABY
Galactic Politics:
Coruscant falls to the Yuuzhan Vong, taking with it a significant chunk of the senate. The New Republic gives the Jedi more power to defend the republic.
They begin terraforming it into the center of their religious system, modeling it after their homeworld.

The Yuuzhan Vong have developed a new creature that hunts Jedi, extremely effectively. A group of Jedi hunt down and kill the queen of these creatures, and prevent any more being bred. Anakin Solo dies, saving his brother and friends in the assault.

28 ABY
Galactic Politics:
The New Republic and the Imperial remnant reform to fight together against the Vong, and form the Galactic Alliance effectively fighting back against the Vong with the first major victories.

29 ABY
Galactic Politics:
Luke and Jacen eliminate the Yuuzhan Vong leaders. The Jedi bring back a living planet from the Unknown Regions, which they use to negotiate a ceasefire, and the Galactic Alliance are allowed to retake various core world planets, in return for the living planet. 365 trillian sentient dead, the war is over.

30 ABY

Jaina and Jacen are the key war heroes, with Jaina declared the “Sword of the Jedi” as a fantastic pilot and lightsaber warrior, and Jacen basically becoming a key Jedi Master on the council.

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And this is about when the Episode 7 appears to be set 30 or so years after Jedi, which is problematic. It *could* be that 7 is set before the war, when Chewy was alive, but this is unlikely. Generally the Yuuzhan Vong isn’t liked very much so they may just removed that storyline, or Chewy will be brought in for the first few bits or in flashbacks.

In any case the majority of the expanded universe will be changed, with the best guess being that Jaina********* and Jacen are the only new characters likely to stay, which might be disappointing. Maybe. A lack of Mara Jade is concerning.

Next year will be interesting in any case though.**********

Dave***********

*Not open to debate. Shut up. NO. WALL-E IS NOT A SPACE OPERA.
**Also not open to debate. Its really not useless. Are you reading this? Yes? NOT USELESS.
***I’m not ALWAYS funny. I just look it.
****If you can’t cope with this nerdiness, stop reading. Seriously. It gets worse.
*****he kidnaps her. Seriously. When I did that, it didn’t work. If it would work for you, let me know, I’ll see what I can arrange.
******So many CLONES. This is the only clone story I included here, but the empire seems to clone everybody, just in case. At one point Luke is attacked by an evil clone of himself…
*******Funniest star wars book in existence. They use big dumb bugs to build it that get distracted every 5 minutes. Its a bloody miracle it actually was built straight.
********GUESS WHAT?! MORE CLONES!!!
*********She seriously can’t be anyone else…
**********I just realized I’ll be 29 when this comes out. Gah. Also, SO MANY GOOD MOVIES NEXT YEAR.
***********SO MANY ASTERISKS.

17 Mar

I’m so tired…

…not just physically tired, (I blame risk for that) but tired of other things.

Tired of holding back my ideas, tired of living miles from my friends, tired of money, tired of youtube, tired of being too busy to look up, tired of thinking too much, tired of the internet, and mostly tired of not getting the opportunity to serve God as much as I want.

This is why I haven’t blogged in a while, its difficult when you’ve no time to think about stuff, hence why I’m typing this at 11.00pm on the Sunday of a bank holiday weekend. I just want to have a job that truely matters, live near my friends and not have to worry about anything.

Meh.

Anyway. That was different.

You should watch these videos! They’re educational! In a fun way! I now know a lot about the Mongols. But watch it!

http://www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse

I’m also looking for music videos for music that is any good. Please let me know some.

Where was I… oh yeah, tired. Physically tired! Board games. Risk at 9.00pm is a bad idea. It was a worse idea when it came to 2.00am.
Board games are awesome.

Gah. Time to sleep. Or continue watching Dr. Who. I haven’t decided yet.

12 Jan

So, turning on the radio and hearing sex at 11am is a thing now.

Yeah, this happens on Radio 4. Its… certainly not a great thing in work.

Anyway. My last post was before Christmas, so as this is after Christmas, I should probably talk about that.

It’s January! I bought a telescope! FOR SPACE. And its been cloudy since I did that, so, after I worked out I can see Holywood, now its just… sitting there. Boo. I got it from Jessops 2 days before they closed for good. So I’m kinda glad it works.

Now I’ll actually talk about Christmas. Probably. That number I was talking about? IT’S GONE DOWN. And now its at 19. Ish.

Moving on, last night I defied the protests, and decided to come into town anyway to hang outwith my friends. It worked surprisingly well, after discovering 2 of the 3 routes into town I have were blocked, one of which by the heartless jackasses who did this:

Gagh.

And as I type this I see another story coming out of a delayed GP for a dying man.

…

Yeah.

Anyway, there were also a major number of hopefully unrelated road accidents, and I discovered several back roads I didn’t know about. And then played Settlers of Catan. It only took Steven 20 minutes to start giggling. I would’ve been proud if I hadn’t been trying to make it happen. If you don’t understand why he would giggle… here:

So, Christmas.

It was the usual great Christmas, with friends, family, and more friends. I took many annoying photos, blinded some friends, and took more annoying photos, attended a few awesome friends parties, danced a little at New Years (thats right. That happened.),  introduced a friend to the original star wars trilogy, and dodged 2 burnt out cars on the Newtownards road one night.

So, all but the last made my Christmas awesome. Mainly the awesome people involved, except for the ‘protestor’s.

Now comes the geeky stuff.

Its CES! Things were announced there! And other things have been announced too.

3 important things (they were mostly announced last year… but more detail!):

Ubuntu Phone! This is a new OS that likely only geeks will use. But it will allow your phone to become your main computer MUCH easier.

4K… things!

4K is the next big resolution after Full HD, and many 4K devices have been announced, from TVs to tablets designed for pro photographers. You won’t notice/want to pay for the difference for a good few years probably, but, hey, MORE PIXELS. ’bout time.

Lastly…

The Oculous Rift, a totally immersive  gaming or movie experience.

There were other things, like a totally waterproof smartphone that actually looks kinda good, a gaming handheld that can play PC Games, and a car that can pick you up. By itself. But those are the things I liked.

And thats it for now.

This was irregular dose of nonsense.

Dave.

 

 

14 Dec

Many things this blog talks of. Spoilers, Inside be. Careful now.

The spoilers are near the end. I think.

I’ve had 2 christmas cards so far. Neither got my name right. The first was from our painter and decorator, who managed to get my name confused with my dads, and made me a Rev. They also stuck an extra ‘r’ in my name. The other, strangely, came from Asthma UKNI, who called me Stephen. Its my middle name, but surely they must have my actual name?!?

Anyway, this gives me an idea. Person who gives/sends me a card with the most ridiculous derivation of my name wins a super awesome mega prize*

Moving on.

I have had a busy week. And yet I’m getting up early tomorrow to go pray with a whole bunch of other folk at city hall. And then I don’t know what, but at some point I’m finishing off getting tech ready for our churches ridiculously complicated but kind of awesome christmas kids service, followed by Mumford. I have no doubt I will pass out at some point. Preferably not while driving…

The mysterious number none of you care about is 355. Its a big number. Oh yes.

Now we come to the spoilers part of the blog.

This is a warning, there are spoilers.

SPOILERS.

I CANNOT EMPHASIZE THIS ENOUGH.

THERE ARE SPOILERS.

Got it?

Good.

The Hobbit. It was better than fellowship… though not by much. It suffered the mysterious plot point that the original 3 combined suffered.

Those are some lazy eagles.

They could’ve taken them the whole way, but nope. Lets just drop them on this random rock. Goodness knows how many orks and nasty spidery things lie in their way, but screw it WE’RE EAGLES. WE’LL HELP AS MUCH AS WE WANT. And apparently, its not very much.

Skraw.

Apart from that the whole thing had one properly exciting sequence, though it was longer than I expected, and otherwise consisted of walking. Lots of walking.

Which wouldn’t be neccessary, if it wasn’t for those lazy eagles, just like the first trilogy.

I’m sure I’ve annoyed enough LOTR fans now, so I’ll just leave it at that.

 

 

THUS ENDS THE SPOILERS.

And that’s just another segment of my mind.

 

*Super awesome mega prize might not be super, awesome or mega. In fact it might just be a figment of my own imagination.