Who's a lazy bitch?

Yeah, that'd be me.... as you can tell by the fact that I haven't posted anything in almost a week.

I could always fall back on the "nothing interesting happened" excuse, but that hardly matters. Half the point of these online diaries is to write about trival crap nobody cares about, just to excercise the brain and keep using that stupid language centre. So, let's try again, shall we?

First of all, there's the Package of Mysterious DOOM that's finally arrived. Friday, the postman apparently tried to deliver a package and failed. Our regular postman knows perfectly well that we're all deaf and never answer the door, so he leaves stuff for us. I can only assume he was on holiday, so on Saturday, we found a note telling us to tromp down to the post office, or fill out a form and they'd re-deliver it. Of course, since the post is closed on Sunday, that means we had to wait until Monday for the form to get picked up, and yesterday (Tuesday) to actually get the scary box.

I knew it was trouble, as it came from Ohio... and only scary things come from Ohio. Sure enough, it was a package from my friend James and his new (but not blushing) bride, Rachel. In keeping with a tradition of her family, it was an advent calander. That is, it's a box full of tiny packages with numbers on them. You open each package on the day of December that it's numbered for. Very amusing! Knowning how he thinks, I had Kim write down each day's package as we opened them.... James says there's no hidden pattern. But I'll still look for one.

Also of note, I'm trying to get him to toss that dusty old hotmail account he uses and switch to gmail. Google will rule the world, and I want all my friends on the right side of the revolution when it finally happens. Besides, it's way cooler and how can you argue with 1.5G of disk space for free? To help that along, I figured out how to export and import all my contacts from thunderbird to gmail. Once I finally get all my normal mail uploaded, I'll probably just use gmail from then on.

Heh, I wish I lived in England. BBC America is showing the programme Bargain Hunt. They have cool TV shows, and all kinds of different things. We have one cool show and then all the other networks have to copy it. Hence the flood of "reality" shows and "cop" shows for the last five years. Oh well.

Tomorrow is Dark and Light day. They're giving out their 10,000 free SoG keys. I think DnL has a lot of promise, but I'm broke. So I'm not willing to spend $60 for a pre-order of a game that won't officially launch until April. I am willing to sit in front of my web browser at 6pm GMT and try to get a free key to the prequel though. :)

I actually have more to write.... but this is long enough for the moment.