Four day weekends are good. Especially when they cause a pair of four day weeks.
I toddled into town today on account of having a few bits of shopping I needed to do. I was particularly amused by the fact that the staff in Lush are starting to recognise me (I'm not an addict - I can stop any time. I just don't want to.) I was poking around PC World, looking fruitlessly for a monitor stand to replace the Roses tin I'm currently using - and instead found myself heading home with something altogether different.
It prints! It copies! It faxes! It scans! It reads memory cards! Also makes julienne fries! Yes, it's a shiny new all-in-one multi-function copier thing. And a total steal at under sixty quid. This replaces an ancient mono laser (saved from the skip at work) and an aged no-name-brand scanner, neither of which work with Macs. I doubt all have much use for the copy or scan functionality, but the built in media reader means one less piece of clutter on the desk...
I've just finished reading Peter F. Hamilton's latest science fiction epic, Pandora's Star - actually just the first half of the story, there's a second volume still to come. I'm pretty sure I've raved about the author's Night's Dawn trilogy in the past, and this is another example of his genius for universe building (and it's a completely different future, but just as technically and socially detailed). Once again there's a large cast of interesting characters and the numerous plot threads are juggled effortlessly. This time it's (so far, at least) pure SF, without the genre blending into horror, and ends with a fairly literal (if not up to The Italian Job) cliff-hanger ending which leaves you eagerly awaiting the next 1,100+ pages...
GIP! Yes, I have been known to perve over Nala at this particular moment in The Lion King. What about this surprises you?