Attempt #3

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...is still in progress. I finished reading the book (The Only Way To Stop Smoking Permanently) last night, went through the Final Cigarette ritual, and am now an ex-smoker. I'm feeling confident it'll last this time. My main enemy is boredom, as it can't be the stress that made me smoke, my life is so incredibly un-stressful. The book did…

Her Fearful Symmetry

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Her Fearful Symmetry By Audrey Niffenegger Now, I loved The Time Traveller's Wife, I absolutely adored it. It was so well written and thoughtful, so naturally, I had high hopes for this: Audrey Niffenegger's next book. I'm not going to beat around the bush. It was slow to get going, I found the characters quite boring and in some cases…

Busy being busy

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This blogging lark is starting to get away from me now I'm working. I think I just need to update my schedule of LOLs, Reach screenshots and weekly round-ups. The LOLs and screenshots are fairly easy to do, so I'll keep them on the same days, but doing the weekly round-up depends on when I have enough time off, and…

On the desk

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Oh, hi. Work is going well - I recently had my two-week review thing and expressed my concerns that I was not being used to my full capabilities, and lo and behold, I was put on the desk yesterday to get a feel for it, with a view to reorganising the Music and Video department. It's a pretty big mess,…

Mum’s birthday weekend

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I spent this weekend over in Southampton, as it is my Mum's birthday today. I went over yesterday and got back a few hours ago, I had a lovely time catching up with Mum, and it was great to see my bro and Jasmine after so long. She's really growing up, walking by herself now, and almost talking coherently (she…

Just a quick one today

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I finally convinced Jane to watch Dexter! We're only a few episodes in, but she's enjoying it, like I knew she would. It's great watching it from the start again. Halo: Reach is just immense. There's so much to do, so many bad guys to kill, Jane and I have been playing it at almost every free moment we've had.…

Football’s Going Home

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Just watched England crash out of the World Cup - hilarious stuff (I'm Scottish). Let 2010 be forever remembered as the time England would have won the World Cup had the Officials seen that Frank Lampard's effort had crossed the line. You know, just like they would've won the World Cup in 2006 had Rooney not been sent off, and…

E3 vs Lost – FIGHT!

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Yesterday I posted links to two different subjects on GRcade, just to get a little traffic boost. One link was about E3, the other about Lost. I was very surprised when I came on and saw that even though E3 is current and Lost finished ages ago, Lost came out on top with 29 hits. E3 only got 7. I…
So that was Lost then

So that was Lost then

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I left this post for a while on purpose, just so I could let things sink in. Overall, I think the ending could have been much, much worse. At first I didn't mind the whole church ending scene as I was a bit shaken by all the slow montages of the Islander's remembering their time on the island, and watching…