Bewitched, Bothered, Bewildered

A while ago now I made the mistake of suggesting I could go a few entries without mentioning movies. Little did I know how disastrous that would be to my productivity around here.

So I could treat you all to a minor blog-crossover-arc by mentioning that I popped around Kev’s yesterday and there was talk of both TK Maxx and Trackmania, except who in their right mind would find that all that interesting? There was some talk of Poker which got me thinking, as much as I can’t understand why people would want to blow money on any kind of gambling I do enjoy the ins and outs of Poker.

I could tell you all how this machine would work like I charm if I spent a little money on even another 512MB of RAM, leaving me with a little more power and enough expansion space to push up to 2GB of RAM when I have the cash for that. That said when I start rambling about computers I really bore the socks off people.

With my Christmas present being the new generation of Flight Simulator, I could explain how it come I’ve decided to try graduating from my simple and old fashioned prop bush planes to the world of electronically controlled turbo props…and how I have yet to master getting off the ground, something of an embarrassment to someone who can plop a single engine prop down in the midst of a canyon on a 10 foot stretch of sand and then extricate himself without even flinching. I could explain how the very first add-on plane I purchased for Flight Simulator 2002 was made by Piper and now I have returned to the manufacturer with a plane so over-powered by it’s two turbo-prop engines that you can’t even push the throttle full forward without destroying said engines. I wasn’t sure anyone wanted to hear about that either.

Then I remembered that I recently worked my way through the entire first series of The Secret Life of Us which had led me to find out via the wonders of IMDB just what had happened to the actors. I know that Joel Edgerton went on to play a young Uncle Lars in Star Wars (Episodes 2 and 3) which kick-started his acting career, Samuel Johnson has pretty much vanished since his girlfriend died (apart from running a marathon for charity…apparently a decade ago he got a few cameos in The Bill and Home and Away) and Deborah Mailman for some reason chose to cling on to the show until it was unceremoniously axed. I got onto this train of thought again though because of Claudia Karvan who recently starred in Star Wars Episode 3 playing Padme’s sister. That wasn’t why I thought of her though, it was more because only a few weeks after reading her credits on IMDB, she popped up in an advert for Love My Way to be shown soon on Channel 5.

So when it came to writing an entry not about movies I was left wondering which of these I should bother to write about. Then finally a few weeks on it occurred to me that a blog about the not so secret life of me should really be made up of the sum of my parts, however boring some or all of those parts might be.

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