Home Alone

Wow!

Oi and Grace have gone to the farm for the night. It's some Thai religious holiday. I could have gone too. I should have gone, but time alone was appealing and though it would have been pretty good, a walk around a temple, sitting on the chairs at the farm, eating dinner with the family, it's also nice to be completely alone. Actually, I kinda set up an evening of entertainment for myself. I've got the new sci-fi Oblivion set up, and I have to say, that the first half hour was fantastic, like an epic book like, Dune (not that I ever read it) or Helliconia Spring (I read that one, and was captivated). There is also a backlash of reviews on IMDB from and angry public about the savaging it got from the fat global media. It's a wonderful movie and definitely has that epic feel about it, so missing from anything today.

These days I can't watch movies without a break, but just recently I have really enjoyed watching the free ones on Utube on the Ipad. It's very relaxing lying in bed watching a movie. I keep thinking about a cradle device that could support the ipad above your head, so you just have to stare up to watch the movie. I need to make this thing! Anyway, I watched "As Good As It Gets" and "The Natural". Both, were movies of very high quality and I relished the experience.

So, I got my super PC back from the repair shop all clean and with Windows 7 installed. This meant I could install some select games, the first being Far Cry 3, for Peter's last 3 hours in Thailand, which he thoroughly enjoyed. It should be mentioned somewhere, of his dazzling opening kill. He was speeding away in a newly acquired jeep, from some enemy troops, red T-shirted thugs, when he performed a perfect 180 spin on the dirt road of the jungle, jumped out of the jeep, and very cleanly took out the drivers of two pursuing jeeps within about 3 seconds. It was rather incredible, possibly, headshots involved. What a start to a game. Far Cry 3 is wonderful. I conduct Nature tours for Grace on it. Driving her to some remote part of the jungle to spy on tigers. She loves it and is always asking me go to and see the tiger, to which I duly obey. I have to watch the killing in these games, sometimes its unavoidable. I'm at the Djamba, Johnson Grass, Kona Gold field burning scene. I am going to relish possibly the highlight of the game. It's a fanastic scene.

I'm thoroughly into Steam, which is a game manager system. There are great deals in their store and I have bought some great games at very low prices; Empire Total War, Chivalry, Sleeping Dogs and Borderland 2. All these games are utterly incredible, and I hope I can dedictate some time to them.

For the moment my love affair with Duel of Champions has ended, though I log on every day to pick up the reward.

Sleeping Dogs in an exciting trek around gangster Hong Kong and really fun learning Kung Fu and beating people up. Great driving too in an amazing replica of Hong Kong island, like GTA.

In dire need of exercise right now, having failed to establish a system. I feel like a bin bag full of yogurt, as Fry so brilliantly puts it. I'll reach rock bottom soon, when I just run staright out of the house, or buy some dumb bells or something.