Ready for Another Circuit

Soon we will be celebrating the Earth making another circuit of its orbit, which for some means doing some very silly things, and setting goals to achieve by the end of the next circuit. Well, good luck to all of you who partake of those traditions. Personally, I've little reason to treat one day differently than another for the time being, but still, have a Happy New Year!

At Times, Memory is a Curse

Some people think that having a good memory is a blessing. Well, perhaps a good memory is, but not a perfect one. I guess I'm lucky that I seem to be somewhere in between. The simplest way to describe what that means is that while most people will forget the bad things that happen in their lives as they grow old (but typically not the good moments) I tend to remember them. Not all of them and not with perfect detail, but a fair number of them. Those with perfect memory remember all of them and they have my sympathy.
Anyway, I'm speaking of my memory not because of some good or bad occurrence in my life, but because I saw The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. I have read the book on my own once about one-and-a-half to two years ago and I can remember so much of it so clearly, that watching the movie was irritating. I could remember what happened in the story as though I had just put the book down last week, so many (probably not all as I am not a Tolkien fanatic) of the differences/inaccuracies of the movie jumped out at me.
Yeah, I know that sounds trivial, and for most it would be. Not for me though, especially as I know what it is like to write and edit stories of my own creation. What I commit to word is cannon for my stories, so changes of the degree we see in that movie would not be welcomed by me.

Congrats to the Lucky Gamers!

Not too long ago, Valve announced SteamOS, the Steam Controller, and the Steam Box initiative, along with a beta program for them. This past week Valve finally notified the lucky beta testers and started shipping out the equipment. Congratulations to them and happy bug hunting! I can honestly say, I wish I had gotten one too. Thought for a moment that I could have just built a rig for it on my own, since Valve released the OS for download too, but then I read the requirements.... Yeah, don't have a spare terabyte hard drive laying around. Hopefully that requirement will change before long. I'd love to get in there and start breaking stuff. That can be as much fun as playing a game!

Not the best week

Hasn't been the best week for me. In the past few days I have had an event cancelled on me at the last minute, messing with my schedule quite a bit, and some hardware fail on me. Fortunately I've managed to find a solution to the failure that should be acceptable. It just is going to take some time to get right.
All I got this week. I know it isn't much, but it's better than nothing.

What I Should Have Done...

What I should have done is weighed myself before and after Thanksgiving, to see if I put on any weight, and how much. That would have given me something to talk about today! I didn't do that though... on the plus side though, it still gave me something to talk about!