It’s that time of year again. Everything’s sparkling and twinkling and eye-catching. Most people are in good cheer and there’ll soon be an abundance of good food and drink and good company. The old favourites will be sung and those classic films will be on the box as we laze around, relaxing from all the frenetic activity of gift-giving on Christmas morning.
But we’re not there yet. It’s too early for the decorations and too soon for my budget. I normally start my shopping in October but this year Rudolph’s been wearing slippers and I didn’t hear him coming. I’ve mostly settled on what I want to buy everyone, it’s just trying to afford it all. It doesn’t help that all the programmes on the telly say “it’s only £££” as if the prices they throw around are chump change.
I think Christmas is just over three weeks away now and i’m worrying over the details. I put alot of thought into my gifts but I also shop around. You have to when you have the little money left that I have. How do our parents do it?
I have a couple more presents to decide on and i’m sure it’ll work out, but of course shopping online will soon be out of the question as the “delivery by Christmas” promise comes to an end. I guess the next few weeks will see me milling around the high street shops with all the other grumpy latecomers.
‘Tis the season to be jolly.
[ Posted by your humble author Rambo @ 11:17 pm ]
Seems I can’t sit on a train or a bus these days without being boxed in by the gleaming whiteness of MacBook Pros. Not that i’m jealous, I know I will have a Mac one day, I’m prepared to work towards it over time.
No my real problem with it is the wastage. Macs are very cool machines, they can do all kinds of fantastic things with desktop applications called widgets and they have built in cameras and great software for creating all kinds of desktop publishing and artwork. So what do these commuters use their high-powered MacBook pros for? Watching dvds. It just seems such a waste..
On the subject of invasion, i’ve just finished reading Peter F. Hamilton’s ‘Pandora’s Star’. It was really good. Definately my kind of thing – sci-fi -and very detailed. The writer takes three quarters of the book just building up the characters and the politcal situation before getting to the event described in the blurb – the star system mysteriously imprisoned by a forcefield and the consequences of the investigation (hence the name ‘Pandora’s Star’ – clever huh?lol).
Well after following the adventures of Ozzie, Orion and Tochee as they travel the Silfen paths…the bumbling astronomer Dudley Bose…Adam Elvin the idealistic socialist terrorist…his nemesis Chief Investigator Paula Myo…Justine Burnelli and her romance with the savage Kazimir McFoster of the Guardians of Selfhood…Captain Wilson Kime and his encounter with the Primes..and of course MorningLightMountain…after all that (and did I mention rejuvenation allows humans to live for centuries? and memory stores allow you to come back from the dead?) …yes, after all that and about ten pages from the end I realise Peter isn’t going to complete the story in this book – oh well!
The second chapter is Judas Unchained which I think might refer to the Starflyer – the so-called evil alien that the clans on Far Away are fighting to protect humanity from. The name Judas implies a traitor which to be honest could be anyone – and things are all over the place at the end of the first book with nuclear war in full swing. So exciting eh?lol
Catch you later…
[ Posted by your humble author Rambo @ 8:22 pm ]
