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All quiet on the western front...
Feb. 5th, 2003 10:11 amPretty quiet day here, if fact so quiet I'm BORED! I'm not in one of those kind of jobs where I can sit and doodle or read a book at all. I have to permanently look busy at least. That's how I get away with muxing half the time when I'm on my quiet weeks while the sales staff do their stuff. If I -look- busy by tping a lot or working on the computer (as long as it's something mundane like text on a screen, not reading online comics, I can get away with it.
I suspect my colleagues have a pretty good idea that I just sit here looking busy, but so far they've been polite enough not to mention it. ;) However, I think doing anything else would attract the wrath of the boss. In some ways he's fairly harsh.
Hmm, so updating the livejournal it is. Still can't make any progress on the ADSL. Just waiting for the company to get back to me. I'll just say to trade it in for a basic USB ASDL connection I think and try and get a refund if they can't get it to work as they promised. I'm sure it's not down to my settings, three of us have looked at it and agreed that everything's set up right.
I hate it when I can't accomplish the things I want to. It bugs me. Technology should be simple, I'm not used to complications. Macs don't have much in the way of complications, I'm sure.
Simplicity is the key because I am a moron.
Still ploughing through the pile of comics I bought. Ultimate Spiderman isn't too bad, but I still think it reads better in trade paperback form. Unlike Brian Michael Bendis's other stuff it's not as episodic and obviously aimed at a younger audience. However Daredevil is still up there, good as ever.
I'm a bit bemused by the Ultimate stuff on the whole though. I just...well, I can't really see the point. I think it's mainly down to Mark Millar. Ultimate War has been bearable but I bought the last two issues of Ultimate X-men again and it's just...well, there's nothing there. Simply put I just can't get into the characters, mainly because there don't seem to -be- any. It's a case of the guy taking on a load of characters who simply share the same name and ability as the originals and them simply slotting them into whatever plotline he has going. The original comics have had some real crap in them, but Ultimates doesn't really improve on that from what I can see. The last issue seemed mainly to be about taking a load of characters and having them slot into the Brotherhood just because they'd be useful there. I still don't get what Jamie Madrox, Rogue, Forge and the like would be doing in an organisation that's set out to wipe out humankind. They just don;t seem to be the sort of characters who'd condone that to me, but maybe I haven't yet grasped the Ultimate take on things. I don't think I ever will, so won't bother to get it again, I've had a try. It goes on the list along with X-treme X-men, Transformers, Weapon X and most of the Icons series as comics with nice ideas but haven't been pulled off at all well.
Still far more into Uncanny X-men and New X-men more than anything. Along with Daredevil they make up my monthly must buys.
I suspect my colleagues have a pretty good idea that I just sit here looking busy, but so far they've been polite enough not to mention it. ;) However, I think doing anything else would attract the wrath of the boss. In some ways he's fairly harsh.
Hmm, so updating the livejournal it is. Still can't make any progress on the ADSL. Just waiting for the company to get back to me. I'll just say to trade it in for a basic USB ASDL connection I think and try and get a refund if they can't get it to work as they promised. I'm sure it's not down to my settings, three of us have looked at it and agreed that everything's set up right.
I hate it when I can't accomplish the things I want to. It bugs me. Technology should be simple, I'm not used to complications. Macs don't have much in the way of complications, I'm sure.
Simplicity is the key because I am a moron.
Still ploughing through the pile of comics I bought. Ultimate Spiderman isn't too bad, but I still think it reads better in trade paperback form. Unlike Brian Michael Bendis's other stuff it's not as episodic and obviously aimed at a younger audience. However Daredevil is still up there, good as ever.
I'm a bit bemused by the Ultimate stuff on the whole though. I just...well, I can't really see the point. I think it's mainly down to Mark Millar. Ultimate War has been bearable but I bought the last two issues of Ultimate X-men again and it's just...well, there's nothing there. Simply put I just can't get into the characters, mainly because there don't seem to -be- any. It's a case of the guy taking on a load of characters who simply share the same name and ability as the originals and them simply slotting them into whatever plotline he has going. The original comics have had some real crap in them, but Ultimates doesn't really improve on that from what I can see. The last issue seemed mainly to be about taking a load of characters and having them slot into the Brotherhood just because they'd be useful there. I still don't get what Jamie Madrox, Rogue, Forge and the like would be doing in an organisation that's set out to wipe out humankind. They just don;t seem to be the sort of characters who'd condone that to me, but maybe I haven't yet grasped the Ultimate take on things. I don't think I ever will, so won't bother to get it again, I've had a try. It goes on the list along with X-treme X-men, Transformers, Weapon X and most of the Icons series as comics with nice ideas but haven't been pulled off at all well.
Still far more into Uncanny X-men and New X-men more than anything. Along with Daredevil they make up my monthly must buys.
