Babies love Sci-Fi!!!

Had a huge Dresden Files catch up, over the recent sleepless nights, and the series is a hit with me. I’m a fan of wizards and hardboiled detectives, so mix the two and what’s not to like! Very intrigued by the deep background that sits behind most of the stories and only comes to the fore in some of the episodes (“What about Bob?” especially). I’d imagine I’ll get more out of reading the books that the series is based on. A second series is up in the air, but I’m putting my wishes for one.

Finally got to watch ‘Infernal Affairs’, the Hong Kong Crime Thriller that Martin Scorscose’s The Departed is based upon. I was intrigued from my love of HK films and from watching The Departed over xmas. A very slick film, kinda like a Miami Vice for coolness and lingering city rooftop shots (leading to my favorite quote, ‘do you undercover cops always meet on roof tops?’). The Departed is very faithful to the orginal, with alot more padding which explores the characters more. I rate both, but Infernal Affairs would get the drop if I wanted to watch a pacy 2 hour long film while The Departed is a more lumbering 3 hour long character/gangster epic.

Revisited Aliens:Directors cut in a particularly long sleep deprived session (babies love sci-fi!), and was reminded what a slick film it is and how cool sentry guns are !!

It’s a Girl!!!

I’m chuffed to bits to let you know that yesterday after big adventure in medical emergencies my wife Rachel gave birth to a 6lbs 13oz baby girl called Evelyn at 9.27pm yesterday. Despite the fun and games, which were worthy of an episode of Discovery channel’s Special Babies, mother and daughter are doing fine. Father is rather shell shocked.

Eccckkky Thump!!!

Our Rach has just been induced!!

So sometime tommorrow or Thursday at the latest I’m going to be a DAD!!!

The simple things in life

Ah, spring has sprung in Sunny Oldham 🙂

Tandhill road, were I live, is alive with blossom.

The garden has bloomed to this in a matter of weeks.

And Rachel who is in bloom as well has gone from this

to this

in a matter of weeks

I have been guilty of over complicating my life. As a Taoist I shouldn’t be doing this. Stress over work, stress over pregnancy, stress over gaming stuff. You name it I’ve found a way to perceive complexity and make life stressfull.

As a result I’ve not been sleeping very well. Last night I was kept up with a dodgy stomach. Had I eatten something off? No, it was just the stress store had finally reached my guts, a tender area that shouldn’t be used for such purposes.

After a whinge to Rach, before see went to church (for those of you unfamiliar with Rach she is a practicin Christian), which fell on deaf ears I’ve got on with my chores.

The main one of which was mowing the back lawn, with our trusty 470hp petrol mower ‘Metallica’. After some whinging about needing an oil change Metallica got down to the job and chewed up the lawn in fine style. Although the garden is looking kinda wild at the moment, which I kinda like :), I know if I do a little bit now and then I’ll get it under control and next year add new features (a herb & veg plot is top of my list).

Anyways this is where you find me at the moment. Sitting on the Garden bench, with the wireless laptop, enjoying the simple pleasures of my sunny garden.

This afternoon the chaps come round for Roleplaying, and since we’re down a player this week we’re going to do some playtesting of Monkey 🙂