TWToday Christmas Eve Special

My body clock is all thrown off because I went for a nap in the middle of the afternoon. On the bright side, it seems to have got rid of my headache for a while. I should now be able to wait up until midnight in order to catch Santa. I'll get him this year, I can sense it...

I'm joking, by the way. I'm not actually sad enough to stay up until midnight to catch a glimpse of Santa. That would be ridiculous.

I'm staying up past midnight to bid on an old PC adventure game by Douglas Adams that's being sold on eBay. I'm hoping that that's so ridiculous that no one else will have stayed up to bid against me.


Not much else going on today. Taking it kind of easy, as evidenced by the nap. I bought an old Doctor Who game (Destiny of the Doctors) on eBay earlier today and that might require a bit of fiddling to get working on XP but we'll see about that once it arrives. I've also been looking at various bits of import equipment for the Gamecube (FreeLoader and a Japanese memory card) for Erin, who finally completed Donkey Konga 2 today and wants to move on to the Japan-only sequel.

In other news, you may have heard that the jet dragster Richard Hammond crashed while filming for Top Gear has gone up for sale on eBay. It's not working (obviously) but people are still bidding for what the seller describes as “a genuine piece of UK automotive history” that's “a little the worse for wear after its much-publicised excursion into the weeds”. It's technically being sold as scrap but the owner says he hopes it'll get him about £5,000-10,000.

As I write this, the auction is at just under £19,000 with 69 bids so far and over five days left to go. Impressive.

I'll keep an eye on that as it goes on. I wouldn't be surprised if it goes over £100,000. Might even get closer to one million. Who knows?


In other news that's more related to me, my grandparents, who are coming round for lunch tomorrow and with whom my cousins will be staying later in the week, are under the impression that my brother and I are infectious.

I'm not entirely sure how they came to this conclusion, especially given that the entire point of my surgery was to remove the infected tissue completely. Maybe they thought it odd that my brother gets it so soon after I did but I'm still half expecting them to claim that my humours are out of balance. Mum seems to have convinced them that we're safe enough to have lunch with and let the cousins see. Not that they could really stop us from the latter.

Speaking of humorism, I made that same joke about my grandparents with Sam and Erin a couple of days ago and only Sam laughed. (Un)Surprisingly few people get jokes based on classical and medieval medical theory.

And yet, as Sam noted later on, we did. Neither of us had any reason to know about it. We hadn't discussed the subject before. But we both knew enough about these obscure little facts to make jokes about them at the expense of old people. Strange.


Anyway, I'm going to wrap things up now. For once, I can say that I'm not going to bed. Unless my headache gets worse and I can't be bothered staying up any later. As always, we shall just have to wait and see what happens.

Have a merry Christmas.

These titles are just getting more and more ridiculous, aren't they?

Woke up late again and now my body clock is all wacky. It's 10 to 7 in the evening and I feel like I want a mid-morning snack. It doesn't help that the weather's all screwy so that it's lighter than it has been for the past few nights.


Actually, it's raining now, as it's been doing on and off for the past few days. Summer, which never really seemed to have started this year, appears to be over. It really has been a miserable one. Meh. Inconvenient but who knows, it may pick up for a couple of days yet. Though it probably won't.

It's really bucketing down out there. I can never decide whether or not I like rain.

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Now that I've finally got an eBay seller's account, I've been drafted by my family in order to sell various pieces of accumulated tat, including a load of DVDs that my brother no longer wants, some old CDs and one of those Scene It? games that Erin got the Christmas before last. And never played. It's just sat around the house ever since, making a convenient place to put things if you don't want them on the carpet for some reason but otherwise taking up space.

What's funny here is that, in preparation for putting it on, I decided to check to see if any had been sold. I figured that I'd have to go into completed listings and then I'd see a couple. But no . It turns out there are more than 10 of them on there and the ridiculous thing is that most are labeled "as new" or "only played once". I get the feeling that these are the kind of things that people get from other people at Christmas on the basis that "Hey, s/he likes movies, therefore they would surely love to play a tedious trivia board game based on those movies, right?".

We've got another one tucked away somewhere, based on James Bond. I think my brother's keeping it in the hopes that it'll become collectable but the only person I even know who would be willing to play it is Sam "Almost cried when we got him a signed picture of Roger Moore for his birthday and then identified what film set it came from based solely on the tuxedo he was wearing" Stafford, who would be nigh unbeatable anyway.


A quick little sketch that's been in my mind for a while now, that I may use to open an episode of any sketch sketch comedy I ever get round to doing. It assumes that the "idiot" character is called "Jimerson" and that the malicious, intelligent character is called "Al" for reasons that I'm not about to explain.

[pan over a number of blunt instruments over to a tree, from which Jimerson is hanging, tied up by ropes to resemble a piñata. Around him is the rest of the team]

Jimerson: You guys are absolutely sure I'm filled with candy, right?

Al: 99%.

[Al swings into the camera; cut to the opening credits]

Like I said, I'm basing this sketch on the assumption that I can convince my friend Jimerson to star in a comedy show in which he is the butt of at least 25% of the jokes. Of course, he thought Transformers had a decent plot. This shouldn't be too hard.


I played Red Steel on the Wii again today, a game I don't think I gave enough of a chance to when I first got it, probably because Twilight Princess, Wii Sports and Wii Play were taking up my time. I feel like I haven't played a serious game (ie, not Wii Play Billiards or Shooting) on the Wii in ages and it's actually pretty good, for all the mixed reviews it got.

I'm planning on buying Resident Evil 4: Wii edition and Mario Strikers Charged next time I have the cash. I was never really in to the Resident Evil series before, even if I did make funny videos out of them, but I did consider buying 4 for the Gamecube and the Wii version is supposed to be superior in terms of bonuses and controls so I may as well. I considered buying the original Mario Strikers as well but decided against it.


Today's post has been rather disjointed. Still, who cares. I obviously don't.