Diary of an up and coming sociopath

Since I’ve spent most of the last 2 days fiddling with computers, I’ve had little time to update. While I have a gap though, I thought I’d make a quick record of what I’ve actually been doing so that I don’t come to forget it, which might sound stupid, but believe me it will happen.

2 nights ago, Nikki and I went to see LoEG. It wasn’t half as bad as people could claim, though obviously it was nowhere near the standard of the comic. In fact, as we left the cinema two guys who were dissecting the film said something like “Ah, you can’t blame [the filmmakers] for the plot though, they took it from the comic.” and I felt like turning round and correcting them. The plot of the movie and comic bear no less than a passing resemblance. To blame the comic for the incomprehensibilities is the worst thing that anyone could possibly do. Of course, I don’t actually care enough to engage in conversation with someone I’ve never even met, so they’ll just have to carry that misconception to their graves. Still, not at all the worst film I’ve seen this year. I’d put it better than Underworld, that’s for certain, at least this was funny.

Going to the cinema, we noticed that suddenly the weather has turned bitterly cold. It improved a bit since a few weeks ago but it’s now worse than ever. Amusingly, this means that all the wasps which I have spectacularly failed to mention are infesting the house are all seriously dying. For weeks we’ve had lethargic and dying wasps kind of crawl around the kitchen floor, mostly devoid of the power of flight. They’ve provided some amusement, of course, we torture them before sending them to their dooms, be it by mid-air tea-towel interception, drowning in chicken fat or just chucking them outside to freeze. Wasps aside, I’ve decided there will be no complaining about cold weather. I prefer it to the heat. I DO.

The next day, after a protracted sleep-session, I started the Invisible Man. It’s only short, so I thought I’d give myself a break before launching immediately into a huge Verne novel. I finished it today, in fact, and it was ultimately quite good. HG Wells seems to write exceedingly small chapters though, they frequently were less than 3 pages. His chapter breaks were pretty strange too, one continuous scene often spanned several chapters. The most interesting part of the book, for me, was just that it actually made you believe that invisibility would be a curse rather than a blessing. The pseudo-science was fun too, though it probably wouldn’t be used today. Something that certainly would be used today is the turn of phrase “I worked like a nigger.” I’m glad the attitudes have changed, but there’s something really funny about such racism being so brash and, considering that similar attitudes popped up in Doyle’s books, so accepted an attitude. They’d have probably got on well in the police.

The rest of yesterday was spent formatting and installing my Hard Drive. This is my first update from a completely clean windows installation. I’ve already started filling it with shit, of course, but for now it’s unsullied. I’m currently formatting Nikki’s hard drive and getting all that ready for her new windows installation. Shouldn’t be long now.

Yesterday evening, Rachel came over and had dinner with Nikki and Tom, and then all of us, with Ian, took advantage of an only slightly blurred picture to watch HIGNFY and Jonothan Ross, with an episode of Red Dwarf DVD in betwixt. I have very few plans left for the day, mostly just bringing the PC back up to speed. I should probably do some maths coursework this week too, given that it has to be in on Thursday..