Last night I couldn’t sleep. I don’t mean it took me ages to get to sleep though.. I mean I didn’t sleep. There may have been some short sections of light dozing, but otherwise it was just me lying around not sleeping. I got bored enough to give up when it started getting light. Given that, I’m amazingly not tired.. I’d've expected myself to be falling over by now, but I’m still going rather well. I decided that I didn’t want to gym on no sleep though, so that got delayed for another day. Yesterday I was just too busy. Oh.. if you’ve not heard, I joined the gym about six weeks ago.. then went on hols over christmas for three weeks and ate/drank everything. Oh well.. that’s what christmas is for. I’ll get back into it now go hard.. I wish to be fit, slender and attractive.
On the plane on the way home I read most of Neil Gaiman’s short story collection, Smoke and Mirrors. It’s rather fun really, even without some background knowledge that’d be handy for some of the stories. One odd thing though is that each story has an introduction to it.. but they’re all lumped together at the start of the book. It means I keep flicking back to re-read the intro segment before or after I read each story. Seems it woulda made more sense to put the intros with their respective stories, but anyway. Recommended.
You may feel that I only ever read books that I end up recommending to you, dear reader.. and you’d be right. My taste is just that good. And by that, I mean my friends’ tastes. Also, I don’t read a whole lotta books, so I gotta make sure the ones I go for are worthwhile.
I started my car today after having left it for a month.. it went sorta.. whrowmphlimd.. then on the next struggling revolution from the starter motor.. it started. Huzzah! Seems to be running consistantly nicely now too (touch wood) so I guess it likes the idea of being given to Dad. I’ve decided that it’s worth to me what I owe to Dad, and Dad agrees so we’re all happy. It also means I can drive it around the nice country roads when I go down and visit… there’s whatsathingy to my doobiewhatsit…
In case you’re wondering, any strange rambling that appears (rather like in the last entry) is just crap spouting from my head. They’ll never be allegories, euphamisms or metaphors.. unless I tell you otherwise. Sometimes it just has to go somewhere is all.
In gaming related news, Left4Dead is still excellent fun; I’m WoWing a bit again; Zelda is still on my DS to be played whenever (quiet times while working I’d say); Bioshock, Aquaria and World of Goo are waiting in the wings.
So the holiday.. I visited Melbourne to see Dad, his wife and their dog for Christmas and was met there by my sister and Nanna.. it was nice. They live about as far out of Melbourne as is possible while still technically being metro area. Their dog is named Christmas, he is a standard poodle. He’s actually a really great dog.. before I met him I never knew they were so smart. Tops. From there it was to Perth to see everyone else for a couple of weeks, I got to see most of the people I want to catch up with, but some missed out.. sorry folks! I also forgot to take any photos of Elsie (the olds’ new dog) or the olds’ house now that it’s all finished and lovely. Oops. Next time, next time… it was nice seeing everyone and eating super tasty best ham ever in the whole world, anyway. Even with moving those 130 limestone blocks… Also, playing Apples to Apples and Pictionary with most of the gang was great fun.. ‘specially cos we kicked arse at Pictionary. Whoo! Go Team AWESOME!
Now I’m back, finding out what the year holds for me.. In the short term I’ll be leaping out of a plane, beyond that.. who knows..