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Back home now after a long weekend visiting my sister and family. They were on school holidays this week and, since I couldn't get away later in the week because of impending deadline, I went down earlier. Unfortunately my nephew had chicken pox, so we had to stay away from humanity as a whole and outings out were limited to rather muddy walks in the country.
It did give me the opportunity to leave my car with a friend of my sister's for a service, which threw up a bunch of problems, such as buggered wishbone bushes, whatever they are. Of course, now the car drives completely differently from how it has been and actually steers around corners rather than taking them sideways. Who knew?
Back at work now and feeling absolutely knackered. I need either a good night's sleep or drugs. Four days locked in with two young kids will do that to you.
For those interested, the running total for my birthday gifts so far are:
Moon DVD
Primeval Series 3 DVD
Transformers stationery set and binder
The only trouble with my family knowing that I'm a Transformers geek is that they don't know their G1s from their Beast Wars or their movieverse from their Animateds. What this means is when they buy me Transformers stuff, in that ironic way that family often does to humour an obsession that they think is daft, I've been getting loads of movieverse stuff. It's just unfortunate that I'm no fan of Michael Bay's invasion of my fandom and I think Bumblebee, for example, looks like a metallic zombie sucking a pacifier. Attempts to educate my family of my preferences have so far failed to stick.
Does this happen to everyone else? Like, people know you're into comics, so you get bought a copy of the collected trade of Rob Liefeld's Youngblood or something? And, yeah, that's probably a fair comparison. Michael Bay is Rob Liefeld, just without the strangely endearing personality quirks but with the same dislike of feet.
On another topic, I've been offered the role I auditioned for in that play I was talking about. Rehearsals start on Friday, so I'll try and make it across to pick up the book so I can start learning my words. All 20 of them.
It did give me the opportunity to leave my car with a friend of my sister's for a service, which threw up a bunch of problems, such as buggered wishbone bushes, whatever they are. Of course, now the car drives completely differently from how it has been and actually steers around corners rather than taking them sideways. Who knew?
Back at work now and feeling absolutely knackered. I need either a good night's sleep or drugs. Four days locked in with two young kids will do that to you.
For those interested, the running total for my birthday gifts so far are:
Moon DVD
Primeval Series 3 DVD
Transformers stationery set and binder
The only trouble with my family knowing that I'm a Transformers geek is that they don't know their G1s from their Beast Wars or their movieverse from their Animateds. What this means is when they buy me Transformers stuff, in that ironic way that family often does to humour an obsession that they think is daft, I've been getting loads of movieverse stuff. It's just unfortunate that I'm no fan of Michael Bay's invasion of my fandom and I think Bumblebee, for example, looks like a metallic zombie sucking a pacifier. Attempts to educate my family of my preferences have so far failed to stick.
Does this happen to everyone else? Like, people know you're into comics, so you get bought a copy of the collected trade of Rob Liefeld's Youngblood or something? And, yeah, that's probably a fair comparison. Michael Bay is Rob Liefeld, just without the strangely endearing personality quirks but with the same dislike of feet.
On another topic, I've been offered the role I auditioned for in that play I was talking about. Rehearsals start on Friday, so I'll try and make it across to pick up the book so I can start learning my words. All 20 of them.
