First Day of a Short Holiday
So it turns out that the Eee's version of Open Office does have languages other than UK English. The spell check still seems a little off though - it wouldn't let me select any other languages last night (I found another way this morning) and now it doesn't find anything wrong with the phrase "Englash is awexome". Maybe it'll catch on to it later.
Ah, the first day of the holidays. Remember, even if the clock says 11:48, it still counts as getting out of bed in the morning.
I finally got around to playing Mass Effect last night. I played for a couple of hours and got a pretty good feel for it. The conversation system is very interesting but I've yet to be completely convinced by the combat and "talent" systems.
Okay, so it's a lot later now. I haven't really done much all day. As I said, I woke up late so that there wasn't much point in starting anything much before my hospital appointment at two o'clock. I hate going into the ward (rather than the normal treatment room) but I have to at weekends. The afternoon appointments do give me a lie in but it's usually a longer wait and the nurses up there don't see it so often and usually seem to put in a bit too much packing.
Today's appointment was pretty quick but I got the whole "it's looking much better than last time" speech again and I'm really starting to get sick of it. If it's getting so much better each and every bloody time, why isn't it bloody well healed yet?
Bah. All I can really hope for now is that it'll be done before the prelims start. I'm determined not to become complacent about it. I tend to ask every couple of days and as soon as I get told that I could probably just put the dressing on at home, I'm done.
Enough of that. It's getting very late in the day now and I tend to get more complainy around then. Doesn't help that the alarm just went off downstairs for no particular reason. It seems to just be a fault with the phone line but Mum's still being paranoid about it and insisting on checking everything. She just called me through to ask if the lights on the wireless range extender were all right, as she'd never seen them like that before. I had to patiently explain that one was the power light, one showed the network cable was plugged in an one showed that the Wi-Fi was active – and that all were perfectly normal and always on.
Other than the things I feel like complaining about, I've not done much else all day. Haven't really played any games – did a bit more of Advance Wars in the waiting room but I haven't touched Mass Effect, Link's Crossbow Training or any other of the half dozen or so games I keep meaning to play more.
My Life on Mars DVDs arrived this morning so I've been watching them a lot. I quite like it but I'm not entirely convinced that it's as great as everyone says. Maybe it's just backlash from the hype. Oh, well. I'll keep watching all the same.
And that's about it. I'm basically just resting up now because I know that I'll have to start doing revision and so on at some point soon. Probably on Tuesday, since I want to spend tomorrow playing some of the games on my list and I was thinking of having Sam round on Monday, if only to give him some revision sheets that he missed getting on Friday.
I really have to wrap this up now. I've no idea how it got so late but I have to get this post up within about fifteen minutes or... well, or nothing really. But I've got nothing else to say and I want to get to bed so I may as well stick to my self-imposed, arbitrary deadline.
Oh, and one final side note. Today, my mother dismantled Citizen Cane. He shall be sorely missed by all who knew him and who had used him to remove objects from high up areas.
Which reminds me... isn't there still a flying disc thing stuck on the roof from a while back? Did we ever get that down?
Ah, the first day of the holidays. Remember, even if the clock says 11:48, it still counts as getting out of bed in the morning.
I finally got around to playing Mass Effect last night. I played for a couple of hours and got a pretty good feel for it. The conversation system is very interesting but I've yet to be completely convinced by the combat and "talent" systems.
Okay, so it's a lot later now. I haven't really done much all day. As I said, I woke up late so that there wasn't much point in starting anything much before my hospital appointment at two o'clock. I hate going into the ward (rather than the normal treatment room) but I have to at weekends. The afternoon appointments do give me a lie in but it's usually a longer wait and the nurses up there don't see it so often and usually seem to put in a bit too much packing.
Today's appointment was pretty quick but I got the whole "it's looking much better than last time" speech again and I'm really starting to get sick of it. If it's getting so much better each and every bloody time, why isn't it bloody well healed yet?
Bah. All I can really hope for now is that it'll be done before the prelims start. I'm determined not to become complacent about it. I tend to ask every couple of days and as soon as I get told that I could probably just put the dressing on at home, I'm done.
Enough of that. It's getting very late in the day now and I tend to get more complainy around then. Doesn't help that the alarm just went off downstairs for no particular reason. It seems to just be a fault with the phone line but Mum's still being paranoid about it and insisting on checking everything. She just called me through to ask if the lights on the wireless range extender were all right, as she'd never seen them like that before. I had to patiently explain that one was the power light, one showed the network cable was plugged in an one showed that the Wi-Fi was active – and that all were perfectly normal and always on.
Other than the things I feel like complaining about, I've not done much else all day. Haven't really played any games – did a bit more of Advance Wars in the waiting room but I haven't touched Mass Effect, Link's Crossbow Training or any other of the half dozen or so games I keep meaning to play more.
My Life on Mars DVDs arrived this morning so I've been watching them a lot. I quite like it but I'm not entirely convinced that it's as great as everyone says. Maybe it's just backlash from the hype. Oh, well. I'll keep watching all the same.
And that's about it. I'm basically just resting up now because I know that I'll have to start doing revision and so on at some point soon. Probably on Tuesday, since I want to spend tomorrow playing some of the games on my list and I was thinking of having Sam round on Monday, if only to give him some revision sheets that he missed getting on Friday.
I really have to wrap this up now. I've no idea how it got so late but I have to get this post up within about fifteen minutes or... well, or nothing really. But I've got nothing else to say and I want to get to bed so I may as well stick to my self-imposed, arbitrary deadline.
Oh, and one final side note. Today, my mother dismantled Citizen Cane. He shall be sorely missed by all who knew him and who had used him to remove objects from high up areas.
Which reminds me... isn't there still a flying disc thing stuck on the roof from a while back? Did we ever get that down?
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