Diary of an up and coming sociopath

The weekend has been about as busy as ever. I went to the comic shop again on Saturday, hoping to find a few things worth buying, but it turned out there was just the one, thought to be fair it was one I’ve been waiting for a long time - the first issue of “The Pulse” It’s replacing “Alias” which didn’t so much get cancelled as reach its conclusion. I’m planning on buying it anyway.

I seem to be off the hook buying a whole load of comics recently, it feels like I’ve cut way, way down. That said, let’s see… 1602, Captain Marvel, Daredevil, Rising Stars, Secret War, The Pulse, Transformers G1, Transformers: The War Within Vol. 2, Ultimate Spider-Man, New X-Men, Uncanny X-Men and X-Treme X-Men. Interesting. Three of those are limited series, and four of them are close to ending, though XXM will be replaced by Astonishing X-Men, which is going to be written by Joss Whedon so there’s no way I can get out of buying it. Hmm. It also occurs to me I’m waiting for both Daredevil: Target and the Black Cat miniseries to put out new issues. Must be about a year since I saw anything from either, but that’s what you get when you hire Kevin Smith to write comics…

After that, we can pretty much fast forward to this evening. Sure, you miss out a lot of UT2004 games and a marathon game of Solitaire Showdown Si and I had, but it’s pretty much possible to skip all that without feeling like you’ve missed too much. This evening Rachel and Matt came over for a brief dinner and chat before heading off on their respective ways. We did some general ranting at the types of geeks that it’s possible for us to look down on (D&D players; Furries) and Nikki and Rachel looked at Jewellery, the most useless of all accessories. Also turns out Rachel knows someone who actually does LARPing. We had a good laugh at their expense, though it wasn’t quite as malicious as it sounds. It was a laugh of pity.

Now I’m going to bed. Somehow it’s fallen that we have almost an entire project to complete tomorrow for the networking, due to some windows installation/uninstallation fun with our server last week. I got up early especially so I could get a good night’s sleep now, though that’s kind of necessitated me walking around on the verge of a headache for most of the day. It’s the only way I could possibly get up at 7:30am tomorrow, which is the unfortunate truth of the matter. Ah well. If nothing else, maybe I’ll be finished with the networking stuff by quite early tomorrow…