Looks like the people across the road are having bigger electricity woes than we did - either they didn't come back when the power came back or something else went wrong, as there were big electricity vans outside the house & they dug a couple of holes in the pavement. Which are still there, as they packed up about 4pm yesterday & haven't yet ( Read more... )

After we watched Torchwood last night we decided to play "just a couple of games" before bed - so I settled into some q4 & J into Burnout ... and then somehow it was an hour & a half later and well past bedtime :/ As a result I'm knackered this morning.

Torchwood was pretty good. I'd been thoroughly spoiled for the end (we watched Reset last ( Read more... )

Spent most of the afternoon shooting rocks1, with a small pause to ban someone with an offensive nick on one of the jolt servers. Then spent a chunk of the evening shooting people2, with a longer pause to watch Torchwood ( Read more... )

Mostly a quiet weekend - J's had a cold so wasn't feeling up to much. So he's spent a lot of time re-watching the Lord of the Rings films, and I've mostly been reading books. Some quake playing too - Friday evening was quite funny as someone managed to whine about losing enough to annoy the whole server full of people, nothing like some shared ( Read more... )

Nice quiet weekend. Well, except for having to go to the dentists on Sat morning - just for a check up, but that seems inevitably to lead to fillings for me. Last couple of times were very minor ones (on the same tooth I think), but this time it was major enough to need a second appointment (different tooth, too). So beginning of December I've ( Read more... )

Saturday was Pauline's birthday party, so we skipped Furry on Friday in the interests of being awake for Sat evening ;) We headed into London at about lunchtime, and were pleased to see that the trains were running properly & that the tube closures didn't actually affect anywhere we were going. We'd been thinking about going to the video games ( Read more... )