At various stages yesterday I found myself watching the Olympics. Highlight was the USA vs. Greece basketball match. I caught the last quarter and was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. US won it, with difficulty. Greece kept them going to the very end. Shame the crowd didn’t seem to have any Olympic spirit or indeed any sporting spirit as they were booing the US constantly. Caught some of the sculling, badminton and gymnastics. All very impressive. I think think the judges were too harsh on the US in gymnastics, a couple of more obvious mistakes but at the same time several impressive tumbles. Not as good as Romania but I would have said silver. Still medals at least. Also saw the final in the men’s double trap shooting. Now that was impressive stuff. The reflexes and skill it must take to hit the first one and then swing around to hit the second, damn impressive.
I don’t have a stereo so I usually listen to music in my room through TV and dvd player or xbox. Several times when I went to do a bit of reading I turned the TV on to play something and ended up watching an hour or so.

It’s funny how some people or indeed organisations still don’t understand the internet. I believe the correct response to these t&c is a resounding fuck you.

In other news, my Pixies tickets arrived and they are indeed for downstairs standing. Roll on Friday night. It should be a damn good one. Will probably fuck off out of work a bit early to get some food and a pint or two and then off to scream and jump around for the evening.

Modest Mouse the following week arrived too. Looking forward to that a good bit too.

CCP seem to have gone and put in stupid levels of pre requirements for the TL2 gunnery skills. In order to be able to train the skill itself would require me to train 3 other skills to level 5 (I have one of the 4 already) at a time of 79 days, 10 hours and 17 minutes. Man they better bring on those training boosters if I’m even going to think about this. The good news is I only need 3 days training to get up the prereqs for the new assault frigs. That will be all done on Saturday and then I can get the skill trained up so as ships come out in the next few weeks I can fly em. I’m really tempted to train up Interceptors too. Just so I can fly em. Given that I’m working on being able to fly all races ships, getting the basics in for the advanced ships and then spending time bring up the other races when it fits in, may be a good idea. Then again boosters are really going to have to be used to get Gallente Cruiser V. I want to be able to fly anything they bring in with Shiva and you know it’s gonna be useful. Guess I should start saving money, boosters could be damn expensive. I do hope it’s limited by cash and not anything else. I can earn some money real quick and should be able to constantly afford boosters.

And the other game of course being CoH. Made 23 last night. Not been in it all that much lately. Unlike lower levels, these really do seem to make a difference. I’m able to solo my missions and rarely need respites. I’ve died a couple of times sure, one of them was when a team mate aggroed a group we weren’t ready to take on and the other was me getting too big for my boots and being held by a 3 levels up boss. I’m able to work off the debt pretty quickly tho. I’ll get Health at 24 (tonight or tomorrow) but for my fuck up that would be stamina and I’d be rocking and rolling. Still it lets me get a double slot onto it and 3 x SO should be a nice helper. I’m planned out till level 28, then I’m all open. Thinking about opening up speed for Hasten but not really sure I need anything else in the power set. Guess I could just work on my main sets.

Can you tell it’s a quiet day in work?