barely fatal

Two reasons: Reason one, Sins Of a Solar Empire. I spent a night playing the smallest map against one single opponent. The biggest maps are ten times as big, and you can have up to nine opponents.

Reason two, my sister came to visit me this weekend. We had a lot of fun, and spent a lot of time walking the city. I don’t know why, but I couldn’t sleep properly on Saturday and now I’m sooo tired. Quite a pile of work for me this week, too. Meetings upon meetings, tons of paperwork, a new guy on the team … for once I really know what I’m going to do the first week of my holidays: Sleep. Nothing but.

So, The Sopranos are done and finished, Galactica still a few months away, Star Trek … lets not mention it … so I needed a new series, and I’ve found it. I started watching The Shield. In case you don’t know it, it’s a cop show. No, not another CSI. It’s … bad-ass. Have you seen Training Day? Like that. I enjoy it quite a lot, and the good thing about it being a few years old, there are several seasons already out there, waiting to be watched

I also watched Next last week, one of the better pieces with Nicolas Cage in recent years. It’s a rock solid “likeable hero” movie. If you don’t have anything else lying around, you won’t regret watching it.

I ride my bike to the office again, I really need to work on my fitness. It’s lacking. The 20 minutes every morning and evening allow me to re-establish an old tradition: Listening to my daily podcasts. I can’t follow anything but music during work hours (too distracting, I work with my head), and I hardly find the time to listen to podcasts during the rest of the day, or the week…