I didn’t do a great deal. Played a bit more Doom 3 and that was about it, really.

Not a wholey eventful day. Basically, most of it was spent reading in the back bedroom warmed by the sunshine through the window.

The weather’s been cold but bright, which isn’t unpleasant.

It’s Boxing Day so my Mum, who’s been watching too much telly and hence has been seeing too many sales adverts, wants to go to the sales.

So as to calm her down we went off to Truro’s retail parks to browse the shops.

My Dad got a mouse and a pair of ear phones with a microphone for use with Skype from PC World’s sale.

As we were returning along the lane near the house we passed a couple walking their dog. Normally this wouldn’t be anything of note. However, the woman in this couple was Tory Amos.

Update: I’ve just realised that I’ve mis-spelt the name of the woman, it’s actually “Tori Amos” and not “Tory Amos.”

A pretty quiet Christmas Day. there wasn’t much on the telly so played Doom 3 again (and am now in Hell so I’m losing interest).

Merry Christmas everyone.

I tried sending a e-mail last night just after midnighter to the “junk” and “soiree” lists hosted by Alec’s machine at work but the messages haven’t turned up. (Is Coyote down for Christmas, Alec?) So, this posting will have to suffice for the time being.

Not a lot happened.

I walked into the village to get some paracetamol just in case as my stocks were getting low. I also played Doom 3 again.

Not a wholey exiting day.

Got up at about 10:15, read my e-mail, checked the web. After my mum and dad returned from shopping we had lunch before my dad and myself walked up to the village shops and back again.

The rest of the afternoon was spent on laptop maintenance and playing Doom 3.

Nothing on telly as usual on a Friday except for The West Wing which I missed ‘cos I was too busy talking.

I got up at around 10am. We went off to Penzance and did some shopping.

In the late afternoon started playing Doom 3 seriously for the first time after getting it last Saturday. It’s OK but isn’t a patch om Half-Life 2 in terms of play or complexity of the control system. It also seems to have a memory leak as the system begins to page to death after a short while. Saving the game, quitting the program and then going back in solves the problem. It still takes ages to load levels though.

It’s the start of the Christmas holiday again.

It was a five hour journey mostly due to lots of roadworks. There was a crash just south of the Taunton Dean services which caused about a 10 minute hold up. A land rover hauling a ground awger had hit the central reservation barrier on the other side of the road and had turned over.

Other than that it was an OK drive. There were lots of police doing speed checks though, including one between the A30 junction and Truro. They were aiming their radar gun at traffic decending a hill were it’s hard to keep your speed down. I think that it’s a little unfair to do it at that point, especially as it’s a straight, wide bit of road with no junctions and good visibility and hence isn’t a hazardous location.

A lot of the evening was spent with my Dad. I was showing him all the new imagary on Google Earth of the places we’ve lived etc. Having seen a lot of cases of hairs showing up on the pictures, it’s obvious that the new 6″ resolution imagary is from aircraft rather than satellite.

It’s so nice having wireless and net connectivity from here. It’s amazing how much you miss it when you don’t have it.

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