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Jul. 13th, 2022 10:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowhiveSo awhile after making the last post we had a call from mums friend, the one who came Saturday. It was a surprise because usually she just calls once a week, on Friday (she doesn’t even call to let us know things she got us to order arrived) so it was pretty strange.
Turns out she did a test and has covid.
We did tests Monday morning and they both came out negative, but I know it doesn’t necessarily mean anything. I’ve decided to cancel the plan to go see Thor this weekend just to be safe, which is sucky but… better to be safe. And hey they might have an earlier showing the following week.
I did wonder if covid would explain why I’ve been feeling a bit rough lately, but it seems not. I guess it could be just because of the annoying heat but… I dunno.
Anyway, the second part of the download thing was Sunday and I’d say it was better than the first, especially the first hour. BVB played two songs in it and, while I can’t remember exactly what they were, but they were earlier songs which was pretty good (I think one was in the end). There was a bit of a downer cause Deftones did a song but I dunno if it was the audio or singer, it just didn’t sound too great sadly. There was also a few Biffy songs and… honestly I can’t remember too much else. Alas there was no Funeral For A Friend like I hoped though.
Monday wasn’t too exciting. I ended up watching an Xbox stream in the afternoon and I couldn’t fit in the next ep of the Who run (it’s odd though one disc has an extended version of part 1…. But not the other parts so I have to disc watch to watch it which was annoying). We did watch McDonald and Dodds on the itv player which was the best ep of this run. Alas it was also annoying, as the itv player kept acting up. Every time there was an ad break it would end up buffering and not show the next part, so I had to keep leaving and resuming. Ugh.
Wilbur and George were doing a ghost hunt thing Monday and did an impromptu live stream before doing the filming… but the signal wasn’t too great and kept cutting out. It put me in the mood to watch something spooky, but I ended up being too tired to watch anything.
Before I went to bed I went to get sonic colours, since it was on sale and I had Xbox points to get credit for extra off… but there was an error on the Xbox store. I ended up having to get cried from elsewhere to buy the thing, which was annoying. Hopefully it’s something they’ve sorted because it was just odd.
Tuesday was too warm to do any messing about in the garage (which becomes a hot box in weather like this) so I ended up gaming. I gave sonic colours a try, which was pretty fun so far and I also gave Moo Lander a go, which I won a code for a week ago. I’m enjoying that too and the puzzles are pretty clever and the boss fight, an alien cow, was surprisingly hard. Unfortunately both of those games suffer a bit from whatever is wrong with the Xbox controller, so I ended up ordering a new one from prime day.
I also did some Elder Scrolls Online, finishing the Deadlands at last. Woo! There were some parts that I could see coming, but it was still fun as always and I hope some of the characters return in later stuff. Next is to do the prologue quest for High Isle before diving into that. There’s an eso plus trial at the moment, which is good cause the crafting bag means I can actually gather resources without them clogging my inventory. It’s meant I’ve finally got to to level 50 in two more crafting things finally, just blacksmithing to go now (and alchemy, which I never use). There’s also an event thing going on too, but it’s annoying cause some of the rewa4s needed to be used in imperial city which is the worst.
Another plus point was I went on Pokemon masters, got a reward on there and unlocked N which made me squee! N is so pretty and I’m so glad I got him, especially after getting his new pretty seasonal outfit a few days prior.
I found out yesterday that Star Wars micro galaxy squadron stuff has started showing up. I’d heard they were showing up in walmarts a few days before, but apparently they’re here too. Forbidden Planet and Smytchs both have them, but alas both are annoying to order from. (Annoyingly, and oddly, Amazon uk don’t have them despite US Amazon having them.) So if anyone sees them elsewhere let me know (they’re like old school action fleet sets so are a mix of vehicles and spaceships). The cheapest sets, and most likely to be spotted, are blind boxes with speeders and such. Here’s some pics of the blind boxes for reference
The Tory leadership contest is now down to 8 people and they’re…. All various shades of awful (but hey at least there’s not Pritti, Rees-Mogg or Nadine). They all seem either clueless, cruel or have done something illegal, often all of the above. It would be nice if we had someone at least competent or decent, but it seems one’s that had previously seemed that throw that away at the chance of power. But then again they’re Tories, that’s what they are.
There was a film coming to shudder yesterday which I was curious about, but it seemed not to be on there when o kept checking. Indeed it didn’t show up on the app until I checked after 10, but I decided to watch it anyway (after finishing the new show on pick, Banshee which is brutal but one of the characters is at least highly interesting and I hope they’re in it more). That film was Broadcast Signal Intrusion. (Thoughts under the cut on the slim chance anyone wants to see).
First off I’d not watched anything on shudder in awhile and it shows, because when I opened up the app on Xbox I had to sign in again. Once I did it further proved a need for a new controller cause it kept acting up while I was trying to navigate the menus.
I’d been looking forward to it because I’d read a synopsis, premise about it and I was curious, especially since the lead was Harry Shum Jr too. The film is about broadcast signal intrusions, someone inserting a video into a television broadcast. It ended up being much more a mystery thing than it was a horror, with the central character becoming obsessed with finding out the origin and meaning of the video.
It starts out pretty promise on, and gave me kinda archive 81 vibes to begin with. However the problem with the film is that by the end the mystery of the whole thing isn’t really solved. There’s some ‘answers’ presented, but they don’t seem right or to tell the whole story (it certainly doesn’t satisfy the protagonist) and by the end you don’t feel any the wiser than at the start, especially with the sudden final scene which doesn’t get explained. It’s a shame, because I was interested at the start, but by the end?
There’s a few things I’m hoping to do this week, but I dunno if I’ll actually do any. Ad Astra is on channel 4 Saturday and there’s a new detective thing on Sunday (which stars the actress that plays lady Felicia in father Brown as the co-lead so I’m curious) but other than that I dunno.
Here’s a list though of things I wanna try and do, in no really order.
*Read more little book of lesser known monsters
*look into sorting next uni course
*Start, finally, The Umbrella Academy season 3
*watch last weeks undeclared war ep which I missed
*Continue who run with The Two Doctors
*Ep of Moon Knight
*Game more (ESO, sonic colours, moo lander, maybe something else?)
*Game something on switch (cause I’ve been bad at that)
*Maybe watch something spooky
I know I’m missing something but I can’t think what.
Turns out she did a test and has covid.
We did tests Monday morning and they both came out negative, but I know it doesn’t necessarily mean anything. I’ve decided to cancel the plan to go see Thor this weekend just to be safe, which is sucky but… better to be safe. And hey they might have an earlier showing the following week.
I did wonder if covid would explain why I’ve been feeling a bit rough lately, but it seems not. I guess it could be just because of the annoying heat but… I dunno.
Anyway, the second part of the download thing was Sunday and I’d say it was better than the first, especially the first hour. BVB played two songs in it and, while I can’t remember exactly what they were, but they were earlier songs which was pretty good (I think one was in the end). There was a bit of a downer cause Deftones did a song but I dunno if it was the audio or singer, it just didn’t sound too great sadly. There was also a few Biffy songs and… honestly I can’t remember too much else. Alas there was no Funeral For A Friend like I hoped though.
Monday wasn’t too exciting. I ended up watching an Xbox stream in the afternoon and I couldn’t fit in the next ep of the Who run (it’s odd though one disc has an extended version of part 1…. But not the other parts so I have to disc watch to watch it which was annoying). We did watch McDonald and Dodds on the itv player which was the best ep of this run. Alas it was also annoying, as the itv player kept acting up. Every time there was an ad break it would end up buffering and not show the next part, so I had to keep leaving and resuming. Ugh.
Wilbur and George were doing a ghost hunt thing Monday and did an impromptu live stream before doing the filming… but the signal wasn’t too great and kept cutting out. It put me in the mood to watch something spooky, but I ended up being too tired to watch anything.
Before I went to bed I went to get sonic colours, since it was on sale and I had Xbox points to get credit for extra off… but there was an error on the Xbox store. I ended up having to get cried from elsewhere to buy the thing, which was annoying. Hopefully it’s something they’ve sorted because it was just odd.
Tuesday was too warm to do any messing about in the garage (which becomes a hot box in weather like this) so I ended up gaming. I gave sonic colours a try, which was pretty fun so far and I also gave Moo Lander a go, which I won a code for a week ago. I’m enjoying that too and the puzzles are pretty clever and the boss fight, an alien cow, was surprisingly hard. Unfortunately both of those games suffer a bit from whatever is wrong with the Xbox controller, so I ended up ordering a new one from prime day.
I also did some Elder Scrolls Online, finishing the Deadlands at last. Woo! There were some parts that I could see coming, but it was still fun as always and I hope some of the characters return in later stuff. Next is to do the prologue quest for High Isle before diving into that. There’s an eso plus trial at the moment, which is good cause the crafting bag means I can actually gather resources without them clogging my inventory. It’s meant I’ve finally got to to level 50 in two more crafting things finally, just blacksmithing to go now (and alchemy, which I never use). There’s also an event thing going on too, but it’s annoying cause some of the rewa4s needed to be used in imperial city which is the worst.
Another plus point was I went on Pokemon masters, got a reward on there and unlocked N which made me squee! N is so pretty and I’m so glad I got him, especially after getting his new pretty seasonal outfit a few days prior.
I found out yesterday that Star Wars micro galaxy squadron stuff has started showing up. I’d heard they were showing up in walmarts a few days before, but apparently they’re here too. Forbidden Planet and Smytchs both have them, but alas both are annoying to order from. (Annoyingly, and oddly, Amazon uk don’t have them despite US Amazon having them.) So if anyone sees them elsewhere let me know (they’re like old school action fleet sets so are a mix of vehicles and spaceships). The cheapest sets, and most likely to be spotted, are blind boxes with speeders and such. Here’s some pics of the blind boxes for reference
The Tory leadership contest is now down to 8 people and they’re…. All various shades of awful (but hey at least there’s not Pritti, Rees-Mogg or Nadine). They all seem either clueless, cruel or have done something illegal, often all of the above. It would be nice if we had someone at least competent or decent, but it seems one’s that had previously seemed that throw that away at the chance of power. But then again they’re Tories, that’s what they are.
There was a film coming to shudder yesterday which I was curious about, but it seemed not to be on there when o kept checking. Indeed it didn’t show up on the app until I checked after 10, but I decided to watch it anyway (after finishing the new show on pick, Banshee which is brutal but one of the characters is at least highly interesting and I hope they’re in it more). That film was Broadcast Signal Intrusion. (Thoughts under the cut on the slim chance anyone wants to see).
First off I’d not watched anything on shudder in awhile and it shows, because when I opened up the app on Xbox I had to sign in again. Once I did it further proved a need for a new controller cause it kept acting up while I was trying to navigate the menus.
I’d been looking forward to it because I’d read a synopsis, premise about it and I was curious, especially since the lead was Harry Shum Jr too. The film is about broadcast signal intrusions, someone inserting a video into a television broadcast. It ended up being much more a mystery thing than it was a horror, with the central character becoming obsessed with finding out the origin and meaning of the video.
It starts out pretty promise on, and gave me kinda archive 81 vibes to begin with. However the problem with the film is that by the end the mystery of the whole thing isn’t really solved. There’s some ‘answers’ presented, but they don’t seem right or to tell the whole story (it certainly doesn’t satisfy the protagonist) and by the end you don’t feel any the wiser than at the start, especially with the sudden final scene which doesn’t get explained. It’s a shame, because I was interested at the start, but by the end?
There’s a few things I’m hoping to do this week, but I dunno if I’ll actually do any. Ad Astra is on channel 4 Saturday and there’s a new detective thing on Sunday (which stars the actress that plays lady Felicia in father Brown as the co-lead so I’m curious) but other than that I dunno.
Here’s a list though of things I wanna try and do, in no really order.
*Read more little book of lesser known monsters
*look into sorting next uni course
*Start, finally, The Umbrella Academy season 3
*watch last weeks undeclared war ep which I missed
*Continue who run with The Two Doctors
*Ep of Moon Knight
*Game more (ESO, sonic colours, moo lander, maybe something else?)
*Game something on switch (cause I’ve been bad at that)
*Maybe watch something spooky
I know I’m missing something but I can’t think what.
