Diary of an up and coming sociopath

Yesterday Nikki and I went to Nan’s for lunch, which was nice. Didn’t do a lot else, but then it’s just about spending time together for a while now she’s off in Coventry half the time ;-) She bought me some Transformers stickers the other day, and I actually remembered to open the packet (it was in the side pocket of my car because of being covered in ribena, but that’s he story, not mine) I got two shiny ones! now I just need a friend to start collecting them so I can swap my doubles :-) I also lent Nikki my copy of “Willie the Squowse”. It’s a book about a half-squirrel, half-mouse who does tricks and gives money to a poor family. I’m pretty sure it’s out of print these days, so depending on how bored I get, I might just start converting it into digital form, because I think it deserves to live on. That’s a project for me, I suppose.

Yesterday we all had a big game of iSketch. Normally, Dave, Josh and I would play Worms 2 online when we were bored, but we tried the other day and it turns out that DirectX 9.0 breaks the network support for it, so we were unable to. Wordox is alright, but it’s not the same. iSketch, however… It’s online pictionary. It can be fit-inducingly hilarious, even if some of the words are utterly impossible to drawn. Velvet Painting was pretty hard, but Almond Extract?! The american spellings don’t help sometimes but all in all it’s a good way to waste time.

In my free time, that is to say, in the time I’m not asleep, I’ve been watching Buffy S4. It’s been a good while since i last watched it, and given that I watched Buffy S2 at winter, Buffy S3 in the spring term, Buffy S5 in the easter holidays, and Buffy S6 last term, it seems like a smart choice. I think I might watch Angel after this. Incidentally, I say I’m not doing it while I’m asleep, but yesterday I remember starting to watch the Hush commentary, then waking up to the DVD menu. Slightly disoriented, I recall stumbling in a bit of a daze to the bathroom, brushing my teeth and collapsing back into bed, only just managing not to fall over on the way, so things aren’t entirely done while I’m in my “alert” phase.

My impressions of S4 are as follows: Willow is, if possible, even cuter than in S3. I think this may be the peak version of Willow. Oz was a cool character and also at the top of his game before he left. “Wild at Heart” is a great episode. “Hush” really is as good as I remember. Riley is actually, a really good character who you appreciate a lot more the second time around. I’m only about a third into the series, so expect a few more reflections on the way.

While I’m thinking about it, it ocurred to me a while ago that I used to judge whether or not an entry was adequately sized by how far down the menu on the right it went. Of course, as I add to it, this menu gets bigger and bigger, so suddenly entries that weren’t very long look miniscule, and my longer entries look barely adequate. Maybe I’ll just write more all the time.

Well, anyway, that’s all I had to say for now. I quite enjoyed doing that Channel Zero review so I might start doing a bit more of that kind of thing. If only for the Amazon referrals, ‘natch.