Sleepypete's Pillow

Been thinking of doing a little writing for quite some time now. I have the blog here which gets little snippets of my life added to it every once in a while. However, real life seems rather mundane. I’d rather write about fun stuff, little bit of tension, some excitement and some fun with strong characters interacting with each other, which leads me to fiction.

The stories would have to be in another blog though … I think I’d struggle to get one out every day and the flow would be disrupted if there was a Thursday Thirteen in the middle of the continuing adventures of Keela and the Gang. I reckon a Wordless Wednesday might fit though 🙂

Thing is, what’s daunting me about it is the world in which it would live. The best stories will be consistent with each other, which usually means a Plan that the reader doesn’t see, except as directed by the author. Maybe a few short ones unconnected to a wider whole first. The D&D and Warhammer groups give very good material there, although you have to be careful of copyright because most role play adventures come from pre-prepared books.

Doctor Who at the moment – now there’s an example of a series of short stories 🙂 I was impressed with Season 1 of the new Dr Who, it fit together its episodes fairly well, with various things getting set up as they went through. Dinner bell too … time to rescue it before it turns to cinders.

This post coming to you via the Friday Fill Ins site 🙂 Been a weird week this one because I’ve been

This post coming to you via the Friday Fill Ins site 🙂 Been a weird week this one because I’ve been hit by bugs that should have knocked me flat over the first couple of days of it. I refused to knuckle under though, just kept on plowing on powered by coffee, pepsi max and mars bars. Think I’ll need a decent bit of sleep tomorrow to catch up.

Anyway – time for that Friday Fill in 🙂

1. I love springtime in the UK, means plenty of cricket to watch !
2. Toast and Bacon Sarnies are foods I love to eat for breakfast.
3. It seems I’m always searching for companionship and intelligent conversation
4. One last trip around the blogs is a great way to end the day.
5. I think I should get back in the habit of drinking orange juice, might keep the colds away !
6. More Pocket Dragons is what I’ve been craving lately.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to chilling out with music and muted golf commentators, tomorrow my plans include having a long restorative sleep 🙂 and Sunday, I want to maybe have a look at the fence panel and the satellite dish that’s not too happy at the moment !

I never thought of it as witnessing a revolution but carmi is right.

my son had Nintendo games and recently remarked that he’s “amazed” at some of the stuff out there now and that it made him feel “old’

wow – I’m the mother of something old OY!

Aye – cos we’ve been in at the start, we’ve been able to watch how they’ve steadily improved the moving image bit by bit (pixel by pixel?) with small steps.

It was weird watching Beowulf, for the first few minutes we really weren’t sure whether what was on the big screen was real or animation. The first travelling camera shot gave it away 🙂

It absolutely blows me away how far the state of the art has advanced in such a short amount of time. I remember the first time I loaded Flight Simulator on an Apple IIe (yup, I’m dating myself…). It was little more than stick graphics on a green screen. But the concept was incredible, and as I took off and climbed out, I felt like we were on the verge of something transformational.

Fast forward to today and often I can’t tell the difference between animation and reality. It’s a privilege to be able to witness this revolution.

2 pictures today … This is “then”, a screenie from 1984 of a ship approaching a space station. It’s from the Wikipedia entry for Elite.

This is “now”, or more precisely a couple of weeks ago while I was moving stuff around.

Eve Trinity is pretty 🙂

I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to hear someone else say that! Let the woman rest in peace! (And thanks for popping in – more on mine in the next day or two)

Apologies in advance for any ranting I put in here 🙂 It’s directed at old men and overenthusiastic press people.

We had the Diana coroner verdict announced yesterday and the conclusion they reached was “unlawfully killed due to ‘gross negligence’ of driver Henri Paul and the paparazzi.” More from the BBC here … It’s confirmed a few things that we’ve known for over 10 years :

The driver of the car was driving under the influence of alcohol
The passengers were content to be driven by him
The only person to survive was the only one wearing a seatbelt
Paparazzi are … … … … … … swine.
(had to delete a few words from the paparazzi bit or I’d have broken my record for swearing in a post – insert nasty words and curses as you see fit)

I’m hoping that the verdict will put to bed the various conspiracy theories that surround Diana. The memories that we used to have of Diana surrounded the good things she got up to while she was alive. Those are steadily getting replaced by the stories that have cropped up since that crash. Even though I wasn’t a Diana fan when she was around, any hostility I felt has well and truly been replaced by sympathy driven by how the conspiracy people are masking the good things.

There’s a little more than the coroner’s inquest at work with Diana though. There’s also the two men who have taken grievous advantage of the confidence shown in them by our former Princess. To his credit, one of those two men has stayed quiet lately. The other one is helping to fuel the conspiracy theories, with the inquest judge telling the jury that it was “blindingly obvious” that he had lied to them.

It’s not often I feel the need for a rant but the conspiracy theorists have drawn one out of me this time … It’s been over ten years since Diana died and the nation showed how much she was loved when it happened. The latest investigation to report confirmed what we already knew from the previous inquests.

Time to let the poor girl rest.

Heh heh heh – I think Snow Cat is thoroughly disgusted with me now … my downstairs window doesn’t get opened. Chronos has a tendency to climb in and then jump on you when you’re not looking 😉

I’ve also never fed Chronos, however CK spoils him to make up for that 🙂

Snow didn’t last long, think we’re being shielded by Cornwall from the SW, the rest of England to the North and East and finally Ireland to the NW.