Yep.
Feeling somewhat like I’ve been run over by a steam roller again. Yep, this will be a whingey post for a bit but bear with it. I find it’s good to explain the problems I’m having so I can sort them out in my own head. Although I do still think it sounds a bit whiny. But that’s just me thinking that I shouldn’t let my problems feel like they’re getting the better of me.
Yeah, I’m pretty wiped out at the moment and hanging in there for the weekend to come. I’ve built enough flexi up that I can disappear at around about lunchtime, although I’ll hang on in case I’m needed (I might be for one of the meetings!).
Plan A was to disappear into town to have a wander around the market and to perhaps, chill out in the afternoon to the film Arrival. (It’s a scifi mystery thriller type movie, people think it’s good). That’s going to change to Plan B though because I am feeling the tireds, plus I suspect it’ll be mayhem in town tomorrow with the Black Friday tradition that we’re inheriting from the USA. I dunno there, I think typical Brit Reserve is taking over there a little. We got very excited over Black Friday a couple of years ago, not so much lately. The retailers have been spreading things out so it’s not all on the day.
No – film can wait and I’ll have the chill outs after hanging on for the week. It’s always good to go up norf to see the mum, dad, Ben-pup and sister and one or both of the Double D boys. But it does wipe me out, especially going into a week full of work.
Weekend plans include :
Quite possibly zzzz’s on Friday afternoon while Stuff is on the telly. Stuff is likely to be the first 3 episodes of an old classic, Earth Final Conflict.
A little XCom2 perhaps ? I haven’t gone back into that since the last session over a week ago. Corgi guns need to happen … Yep.
More games will be acquired … The various online game selling people have sales on and I have stuff in the basket already. (More in a bit).
Cricket ! India host England in the Third Test, starting on Saturday. I’ll have this on the telly, time delayed, while I watch the Grand Prix coverage on my desktop.
Bit of Star Trek – I’ve been enjoying watching the Star Trek films again. I’m watching all of them, up to and including Beyond. Star Trek has always been very good, even at its least good. Tonight’s was Final Frontier, which was one of the least good Trek films. Still good, just no Wrath of Khan.
Anything more ? On and off nattering to people on the texts and the Facebooks and the Discords. Possibly even Twitter too. I occasionally get acknowledgements on the Twitters and that’s always good to see.
I just distracted myself with looking up Pink Floyd’s Ummagumma album. I had that years ago and it has some of the good 60s Pink Floyd on it. The inspiration for that was seeing a 60s collection of theirs at Sainsburys earlier. Curious … but not enough to buy it. I suspect some music may get liberated from various online stores soon.
Birthday stuff is all in now. I’ve acquired the first seasons of Dark Matter and Killjoys, which are excellent new scifi. These, along with Fallen Skies, are the best scifi on telly from the past few years. Cheers CK ! I have a Metal Earth R2D2 as well which I look forward to building with some …. trepidation perhaps. Metal Earth kit is shiny but does take a certain bit of manual dexterity which I don’t think I have in my tired state. And the “Man Cave” sign has to go up on the fridge door too where people would see it when they come into the house.
It’ll be a chilled out weekend. It’ll be the first chance in a couple of weeks to regain some energy and for my poorly ankles to recover some more. They’re actually doing reasonably well and are coping with the demands of walking around at work and for the bus …. but they’re not actually fixing. A quiet weekend will do them good if I leave them alone for long enough.
Games ?
I have 1 game and 3 bits of DLC in the steam basket at the moment …. The game is “A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build”, a charming little puzzler that I’ve had my eye on for a while now. The DLC is for AI War, a strategy game I should really have had a good look at by now. I think the reason I didn’t is because I picked it up when I was feeling particularly poorly and not wanting to play many games at all. Time it got another look because it’s one that should grab my attention.
I’ve been checking out another called Distant Universe, another space strategy game. I need to know more about that. Is it worth getting. Definitely is it worth £22.50 on sale. There will be another sale over Xmas, so I can wait for this one.
This is where the Youtube videos come in really handy, you can evaluate whether you will enjoy a game and get the value out of it. It’s a shame that Youtube game content is starting to die off, as it gets harder and less rewarding for content creators to bring us videos. A lot of them are going to Twitch streaming, which is a pity because … livestreams. You can only really watch one at a time, they’re all cannibalizing their audiences. Whereas I’ll put Youtube videos in a slow mode and catch up later, you can’t really do that with most streams, so the streams get sacrificed because you just don’t have the time to watch them.
Time is pretty precious too … It is really good being able to chill out to the HeyChrissa streams. She has a certain rapport with chat, although a couple of the people in chat should really keep their fingers away from the keyboard. They have that sense where they seem to have to prove something … and go about it in offensive ways. They are tolerated because they have been with the community for a while but … chat goes quiet when they are loud. I ignore them and the chat when they’re being rowdy.
I suspect sleep will be coming after I’ve finished the current round of videos. Haha, at probably midnight as per usual. At least I won’t be waiting at the bus stop for ages tomorrow.
We’re cursed with a company called First Bus aka Worst Bus in Bristol. They essentially have a monopoly, which they’ve been abusing lately. Some buses don’t come at all, most buses are late. This is partly the fault of the Metrobus works, which will have very little actual benefit for the harm they have inflicted on traffic patterns and the general look of the neighbourhood. I bet the new local flats are really annoyed at losing their very little bit of isolation room between them and a busy main road. Road noise is not nice to live with. I’m ok because I’m on a cul-de-sac, although our road gets abused by people working in local shops.
Yeah, they have some excuses due to Metrobus but this in no way excuses certain services being apparently cancelled (not saying which, it gives too much location info away !). That’s more whining though.
Looking forward to :
Building a Millennium Falcon.
Getting into the games.
Catching up on some great telly.
England winning in the cricket (cough).
Another go at Metal Earth with R2.
SLEEP !
Lots of music – it’s the Working Girl album by Little Boots at the moment. Boppyhappy.
Nite !