About seven hours ago I received a bloody fab birthday pressie from copperbird and her husband: the Collector's Edition of Bethesda's Fallout 3! (And yes, I only just came up for air when bexfiles got home, having played it solidly since the install finished ( Read more... )

I know I haven't posted in donkey's years. (Fair warning: this isn't going to be the one that restores your faith in my LJ readworthiness.)

I've come down with whatever nasty strain of cold has besieged Bex for the better part of this past week... it's fairly miserable, true, but as nothing compared to the real problem I've been facing today...

I ( Read more... )

Hope it was made of awesome. ;-)

So the Wheel turns again and here we are at the longest day of the year. (Yes, I know; if ever I get someone on my friends list who lives in the Antipodes, I'll mod this to 'Happy Midsummer/Midwinter'.) Where we live, we had just over four hours of darkness last night ( Read more... )

Here's hoping you have a lovely birthday, verdandiweaves!

(At the very least, it's Friday so there's the weekend to look forward to. :-)

Back with comments on all of the fiction books I read last month.

Pretties by Scott Westerfeld (2005)The formula of the first book is repeated successfully enough here, although I hope the third and fourth in this series will break some new ground. On a side note, however, the author has my sympathy for how the UK publisher misspelled his name on ( Read more... )

Happy birthday to madam_sosostris!

Ran into some technical snags with the present I've been working on for you. Not to say I've given up, but you may have to wait a few more days for it. In the meantime, abbracci e baci. :-)

Happy birthday to paisleychick!

Here's hoping your day is more than moderately awesome. :-)

Care of a notion blatantly filched from james_nicoll and peake, here's a list of the (fiction) books I've read this month, accompanied by atypically terse (for me) remarks so as not to beclutter your Friends pages.

Uglies by Scott Westerfield (2005)I had been meaning to start in on this series for ages, but when I saw that the trilogy had recently graduated to a ( Read more... )

I just got back a little while ago from the special event organised to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Angel of the North. A few weeks back, a call went out for volunteers to participate in a performance art piece to be filmed as night drew in about the gigantic sculpture. Those of us who were selected made our way to one of three pick-up ( Read more... )