Month: March 2008

Erm – this was kinda supposed to be mentioning films like Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven.

But I got distracted …

Just finished watching Seven Swords. We had the pleasure of watching this at the cinema a couple of years ago and it’s still pretty good now. It’s definitely one of the better martial arts type films to come out for the past few years, although it doesn’t have the visual style of House of Flying Daggers. It’s taken a bit of time to come onto Sky and dvd though.

Could well be a quiet week this one, NZ vs England test match starts tomorrow, so I could well be getting quite a decent amount of reading in while falling asleep to the cricket. Which won’t be a bad thing because I seem to have slipped back into a low energy mode. I switch between being hyperactive and what could probably be described as hypo-active.

I always struggle to understand the lack of energy, as I usually spot the signs early and go for countermeasures :-). Countermeasures that usually involve caffeine and other things that are laden with energy but also extremely bad for you. I’ve eaten enough to keep me going today but I’m still in the low energy mode. Must be all the driving over the weekend, although those countermeasures will cause problems of their own due to me crashing after the glucose boost has worn off.

I’ve gotten used to my high energy/low energy cycles. I’ve learned to enjoy the hyperactive sessions when I get them, it can be a rush as long as I don’t get carried away, forget myself and upset the wrong people by not thinking what I’m saying or doing. The low energy times are tougher, because I have less energy available to kick me back into being active. Kinda like a vicious circle … However, I’m learning a few tricks to give me a mental incentive to get back to a more active mode 🙂

PS Starting to get twitchier again already – talking about problems and talking through them can help to get you on the way to solving those problems. Which has been the most useful thing about this blog 🙂 Plus there’s also knowing that I’ve made a special couple of people very happy this weekend 🙂

Sent over from CQ’s blog. Sounds like you made her day 🙂

Dropping by from cq’s place to wish you a happy day 🙂
Love the flowers you sent to her, how kind of you!!

Going to have to visit that shop again sometime soon, not been back there for ages. It’s in an awkward location :

Park in town – gotta walk plus the car parks are a rip off
Park at Borders – gotta go down and up a hill

Trip back from mum’s and dad’s place was pretty easy. 3 hours to do 180 miles, without too much moron annoyance. Now watching an episode of Space 1999, which is another series that passed me by when it was originally on. So I’m catching up with it being shown on ITV4. They’ve got to the end of season 1, so the next ones to come on will have a treat in the shape of the giggling Catherine Schell. Still playing “Spot the continuity error”. We’ve had Eagle 1 try to take off and fail, with a different centre pod to the one it took off with a few minutes later. They mean well though. It’s not up to the standards of shows like Farscape and Babylon 5 but has a very good try considering what they had available when making it.

A workmate and I used to try and keep up with some hobbyists who are keen on Space 1999 but we’ve been driven away by their policy with non-registered users. Which is to only allow them to view a highly limited number of posts before they get locked out. Not particularly interested in giving a username, password and email to people who use a policy like that … A shame cos there’s a few people in there that are amusing.

Seven Swords will be taping soon, we watched that in the cinemas a couple of years ago and it’ll be well worth watching again. Not tonight though – I’m pretty tired after the weekend.

The flowers you sent Crazie Queen are georgeous!
What a guy….!

Oh – dinner last night was good. And the dog enjoyed the remnants of my steak.

He didn’t gobble them down, he INHALED them.

Yey 🙂 Both deliveries came through ok. I was getting jittery when I was ordering because Lastminute.com were having arguments with my credit cards …

May have to fire them again next year and go back to Flowergram 🙂

Just came from CQ’s where I saw a picture of the BEAUTIFUL Flowers you sent her for Mother’s Day….Lovely of you to do that every year! Hope you have a marvelous Mother’s Day Lunch with ypur Family!

(Mothers Day her in The States is in May…..Funny, isn’t it?)

Hmm. A little research later 🙂

Looks like my first upgrade is likely to be speakers & amp. A PS3 has its digital output going the optical way, my current speakers/amp only take digital in through a cable. So speakers will be the first target 🙂

It’ll let me hook up the skybox anyway … Cos that currently goes through my telly. The Samsung I have looks ok but the sound is pretty awful compared to my Creative Audio 5.1 set.