Month: May 2003

Have you seen the video for Junior Senior’s track Move Your Feet? Well for those of us who remember, think ZX Spectrum blocky pixels.
Now try explaining to your PlayStation 2 loving nephew that:
“This is how videogames used to look”
Cue incredulous look…
“But…. why??….”

Louise’s parents leave for Spain tomorrow. We spent most of the day with them yesterday, helping finish off various little jobs around the house. The packers will be there by now, loading their possessions onto a lorry bound for Malaga, and they head off for the Santander ferry on tomorrow.

Needless to say there were a few tears shed. Not because her parents are leaving but because the family home that Louise grew up in won’t be visited again. No more popping in for Sunday dinner, unannounced, knowing they will have made enough food anyway. No more nights sitting out until it’s too dark to see (and then sitting out just a little bit longer…). No more “mind that top step” when we leave. A sad day, lightened only by the fact that they are fulfilling a ten year dream.

We were up and about early this morning, got the required shopping out of the road (sisters birthday on Monday, sister-in-laws on Wednesday), and some ‘unrequired’ bits and bobs – unrequired as in: “why did we buy garden furniture, look at the flipping weather!”.

So we have retreated indoors, had a nice leisurely dinner and I sit here, glass of wine in hand. In the midst of our current hectic schedule, today has been a much needed ‘do nothing’ day. Tomorrow, we head through to say goodbye to the in-laws as they head for Spain on Monday. Tears expected.

Friday is cake day, we gather in the kitchen and talk rubbish, well I thought someone was talking rubbish, but turns out he wasn’t…

Do you know what a cataract is?

1. A large or high waterfall.
2. A great downpour; a deluge.
3. Pathology. Opacity of the lens or capsule of the eye, causing impairment of vision or blindness.
4. All of the above.

Vaughan is thinking out loud about ‘widening’ his target area to allow more personal scope to make it easier for him to write.

Thinking back this is exactly how I started this site and, if anything, the scope has been limited more and more since. The propensity of family and work colleagues reading this site has increased and I’ve become more and more wary about writing about me. Yet when I started it was ALL about me, my site, my thoughts, my life in microscopic detail.

Most people (bloggers or not) need some form of catharsis from time to time. Out with the old, in with the new (ish). Maybe THAT’S what I need to do with my site, rather than worry about the details of the design, I need to concentrate on me, and the notion of what I see as ‘my’ site. For example, it don’t dwell on music much despite it being a huge part of my life, and the ‘line’ I used to have that limited the exposure of friends and family is dwindling (should I consult them about this…?).

It seems it is a time of reflection for many, and a continuation of same for most. That’s the beauty of life I guess, it’s always differently familiar.

X2

THE sequel of the year so far, X2 (X-Men 2) more that lives up to the hype, and if anything I still think they are holding back. Equally enjoyable as an action romp and as a continuation of the X-Men story, you are left in no doubt that director Bryan Singer knows his subject well and knows what the audience want. Plenty of ‘in-jokes’ for the comic book fans, and never forgetting what it is, this was hugely enjoyable entertainment. I’m looking forward to the third one already.