Operation Haphazard Update... Well, fuck me - the one event left on my list for my holiday has been buggered up splendidly. For almost the entire duration of the trip, the "in the round" show of The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe is doing a "kids week", and all their performances are mid-afternoon - all except for Thursday evening, and d'y'know ( Read more... )

ITEM! I'm giving Holiday 2012 the code-name Operation Haphazard. Why? 'Cause I can...

ITEM! Thinking about my Mission 101, and the gaping chasm caused in my efforts by work and moving, I'm seriously considering giving myself a one-year extension. All my failed or unstarted Tasks, over the official period, still count as failed or unstarted, and I ( Read more... )

Huh.

Our roof may be done, and officially completed, but the next big project is still steadfastly refusing to "kick off", namely getting the damn windows replaced. I've written about this before, but the whole DAMN thing is still going round and round in circles, so much so that it just earned its own name: WINDOW WARS: "This Time, It's Double- ( Read more... )

This just in: there are no waffles.

Currently Watching... Handball, Hungary vs Iceland. Close game, but so far today, Hungary seem to be winning everything...

The Buzz, Today... This just in, from the world of Star Trek Online:-

Admiral Tyran now has a Borg bridge officer...


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Gonna keep this one short and (semi-)sweet, as I really want to get some writing in - or at least some type-up. The Holiday is now into "damage limitation" mode, as one near day-long event is consigned to the junk-pile, given that the only slot it can now fit in is the first full day of the holiday, and I am not going to do several hours' ( Read more... )

Well, that looks like every plan I'd pencilled in for the "holiday" can go on the scrapheap. This is what happens when you let someone else make the arrangements THEY want FIRST - there's hardly a whole day left, and what makes it worse is that I'm paying for the "privilege ( Read more... )

Yesterday SHOULD have read...The media machine for Prometheus is underway, it seems. It's going to have to go like crazy to make the kind of cash Avengers is bringing in. Meanwhile you can definitely count GI Joe - Retaliation out of the running, 'cause that seems to have been put back to next year... to covert it to 3D. Oh joy ( Read more... )

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One week to go...

Wow. I may just have found somewhere to go on holiday next year - the truly incredible Machines de l’Ile. How has this amazing endeavour remained a secret?

I could possibly have been able to do such a trip this year, were there not other arrangements already in place, and paid for this very day. Now, let's see how much fun ( Read more... )

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And yet again, I trip over the result of today's Grand Prix, courtesy of the damned BBC news feed on my bookmarks bar. Consider that feed consigned to a folder, to make sure that NEVER happens again!

Holiday News... A very good suggestion has been made that will take several stages and a chunk of hassle out of the whole holiday "game-plan". ( Read more... )

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Plans for The Big Summer Excursion creep forward gradually, although the real stumbling block appears to be the Paralympics...

...response to the first ever showing of AVENGERS is VERY promising...

Ah, screw it - I have managed to do so bloody little today. This I woke up earlier than a week-day for?