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Work - ugh
Once again, I discover that eternal truth. Writing documentation is boring. In fact, it's very boring. But, I've been putting it off for ages, and I really should do it. There's actually no technical documentation at all for parts of my system because people keep asking me to add more bits without giving me time to write up the older ones and this is bad and naughty. So I've convinced my boss that it's important that I take a week and write it all up and make sure all the code is neatly commented which is good. But boring. So I take a break to tell you about my lovely weekend.
Thursday evening: Alex came round. Missing keys. Assumed he must have dropped them on the way and went back v. slowly on the bike looking out for them. Got all the way home to discover they were on his bed :) Got back and we had chicken pasta and watched Buffy and Angel. Went to see Brotherhood of the Wolf which I was not very impressed with actually. I'd got it mixed up with Ginger Snaps so while I was expecting teenage lesbian rites of passage I got medieval fight scenes and stuff. Rather too much unbelievable hack 'n' slash for my taste, but there was a very cute Indian guy in it which was nice. Home, and Alex has taken the day off too for Friday so we lie together and hug. Mmmm.
Friday: Rachel comes round for a cup of tea prior to meeting her family and casing Oxford Brookes re diploma in Cartography. If she gets in and doesn't get student housing she might come and live with me which would be cool. Alex takes me out to lunch at Cocos which is lovely and I resist the desire for pudding. He discovers that his card has vanished. Worry. Remember that he used it at the Phoenix last Friday. Call them. They've got it. Phew. Two lucky escapes/finds in two days - not bad. Then we go shopping. We're looking for tech - digital camera, scanner etc - to look rather than to buy as the prices will be better else where and jewellery for my birthday pressie. I see some really nice bits but am unable to come to a decision so decide to dither til later. Nothing very exciting on the tech front. Then it's home again, home again to get ready to go to see Macbeth at the BMW plant on the edge of town. I'm actually a bit suspicious of this as a location but it turns out to be really good. There's a bit of sideshow conjuring stuff at the start which doesn't seem to relate to the rest at all but the rest was good. The big open space lends atmosphere (and draughts - all chairs have blankets on) and the music and lighting are great. For the witches they have one woman and a circle of mirrors so that she looks like 4 (for some reason they have 3 mirrors) which works really really well. It's quite a theatrical performance in places, but Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are both very good and there weren't really any duff performances although Malcolm wasn't very exciting. Thumbs up say I. But it's a bugger to get to - taxi or car are your only choices really. So, home for bed and more hugging.
Saturday: Manage to get up in time to dye Alex's hair. He dyed it blond so that we could be Sapphire and Steel at the Xmas party and it's now looking definitely two-tone so we dye it back to the old colour. I think it comes out slightly darker but pretty much right. Ian and Ruth come over for a bit of role-playing and we get into a big fight with a load of half-orc raiders with great axes and a barbarian. We so nearly die that you wouldn't believe. It was only because we were fighting in woods so we got concealment that we made it at all. Alex got down to -9 hit points (i.e. just about to die) so Ruth paused in her fighting to give him a healing potion which fortunately proved to be a really strong one so he can get back up to 1 and can get up and start fighting again. Which is good, because about the next go Ruth got hit by one of the great axes and goes unconscious. By the time we'd killed them all Alex and I were both on 1 hit point and Ruth had stabilized on -2. But on the plus side, we did make loads of money from selling all the axes and armour and stuff and got a horse each :) Still, I can't believe we survived! So, after all that excitement, it was off to Becks' party. This was actually pretty good. There was a definite divide between her Uni friends (quite nice on the whole) and her navy friends (oafish) but that was OK. Sadly, all the other people staying over were navy, but we avoided them by sleeping in Becks' room.
Sunday: Shopping! Up and out by 11am and off to Tottenham Court Road to look at shiny tech. Unfortunately, the shop with the cheapest scanners is actually not open and I don't see a digital camera at a better price than Amazon have although I do play with some. Alex treats himself to a shiny whizzy new laptop though :) Home again in the evening and I am too lazy to go to OUSFG so I decide to just stay home and watch Ground Force etc on the TV. Ahhhh. Lovely.
Thursday evening: Alex came round. Missing keys. Assumed he must have dropped them on the way and went back v. slowly on the bike looking out for them. Got all the way home to discover they were on his bed :) Got back and we had chicken pasta and watched Buffy and Angel. Went to see Brotherhood of the Wolf which I was not very impressed with actually. I'd got it mixed up with Ginger Snaps so while I was expecting teenage lesbian rites of passage I got medieval fight scenes and stuff. Rather too much unbelievable hack 'n' slash for my taste, but there was a very cute Indian guy in it which was nice. Home, and Alex has taken the day off too for Friday so we lie together and hug. Mmmm.
Friday: Rachel comes round for a cup of tea prior to meeting her family and casing Oxford Brookes re diploma in Cartography. If she gets in and doesn't get student housing she might come and live with me which would be cool. Alex takes me out to lunch at Cocos which is lovely and I resist the desire for pudding. He discovers that his card has vanished. Worry. Remember that he used it at the Phoenix last Friday. Call them. They've got it. Phew. Two lucky escapes/finds in two days - not bad. Then we go shopping. We're looking for tech - digital camera, scanner etc - to look rather than to buy as the prices will be better else where and jewellery for my birthday pressie. I see some really nice bits but am unable to come to a decision so decide to dither til later. Nothing very exciting on the tech front. Then it's home again, home again to get ready to go to see Macbeth at the BMW plant on the edge of town. I'm actually a bit suspicious of this as a location but it turns out to be really good. There's a bit of sideshow conjuring stuff at the start which doesn't seem to relate to the rest at all but the rest was good. The big open space lends atmosphere (and draughts - all chairs have blankets on) and the music and lighting are great. For the witches they have one woman and a circle of mirrors so that she looks like 4 (for some reason they have 3 mirrors) which works really really well. It's quite a theatrical performance in places, but Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are both very good and there weren't really any duff performances although Malcolm wasn't very exciting. Thumbs up say I. But it's a bugger to get to - taxi or car are your only choices really. So, home for bed and more hugging.
Saturday: Manage to get up in time to dye Alex's hair. He dyed it blond so that we could be Sapphire and Steel at the Xmas party and it's now looking definitely two-tone so we dye it back to the old colour. I think it comes out slightly darker but pretty much right. Ian and Ruth come over for a bit of role-playing and we get into a big fight with a load of half-orc raiders with great axes and a barbarian. We so nearly die that you wouldn't believe. It was only because we were fighting in woods so we got concealment that we made it at all. Alex got down to -9 hit points (i.e. just about to die) so Ruth paused in her fighting to give him a healing potion which fortunately proved to be a really strong one so he can get back up to 1 and can get up and start fighting again. Which is good, because about the next go Ruth got hit by one of the great axes and goes unconscious. By the time we'd killed them all Alex and I were both on 1 hit point and Ruth had stabilized on -2. But on the plus side, we did make loads of money from selling all the axes and armour and stuff and got a horse each :) Still, I can't believe we survived! So, after all that excitement, it was off to Becks' party. This was actually pretty good. There was a definite divide between her Uni friends (quite nice on the whole) and her navy friends (oafish) but that was OK. Sadly, all the other people staying over were navy, but we avoided them by sleeping in Becks' room.
Sunday: Shopping! Up and out by 11am and off to Tottenham Court Road to look at shiny tech. Unfortunately, the shop with the cheapest scanners is actually not open and I don't see a digital camera at a better price than Amazon have although I do play with some. Alex treats himself to a shiny whizzy new laptop though :) Home again in the evening and I am too lazy to go to OUSFG so I decide to just stay home and watch Ground Force etc on the TV. Ahhhh. Lovely.
Brotherhood of the wolf
(Anonymous) 2002-03-04 09:05 am (UTC)(link)I would have hoped that even if you did not like the kickboxing, stunts and mad-bonkers intrigue, you might nevertheless have enjoyed the lush photography of the French eighteenth-century (hardly mediæval) countryside. Maybe Fellowship has spoiled you for scenery in movies...
... And after dissing the unbelievable pseudo-mediaeval fight scenes, it's funny that you spent Saturday slaughtering hapless orcs! What did they ever do to you?
—Damian
Re: Brotherhood of the wolf
Personally, I thought BotW rocked - the fight scenes, the scenery, the costumes and even, yes, the plot (although it was a little obvious in places).
Scapegoating orcs (Re: Brotherhood of the wolf)
(Anonymous) 2002-03-06 02:12 pm (UTC)(link)Re: Scapegoating orcs (Re: Brotherhood of the wolf)
Admittedly, the PCs _did_ attack first, without full knowledge of the enemy, but they did do their best to keep them alive for trial after the fight. They do now know that the raiders a) are part of a sinister organization and b) are worshippers of an evil god.
If it had been farmhands scapegoating orcs, then it would have been rather more obvious. However, the half-orcs had been scapegoating the Dark Elves, whom the PCs did not up and slaughter.