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After I got offline yesterday I suddenly realised that it was Australian GP qualifying night! I was thinking about F1 the other night and I realised I've liked it for 8 years or so now. I'm not sure how many other things I've liked for that long. Can't be many. Anyway, before I talk about the F1 qualifying, I think I'll talk about the thing you all want to know about - what was that awful horror film like?

The film is called Howling IV: The Original Nightmare. We should probably all be grateful that there weren't three other Howling films before this one! Oh, it was soooo bad. Not bad enough to be good, like the Richard Dean Anderson film Through the Eyes of a Killer, which was just great! In a bad way. No, this was just awful. Awful awful awful.

From a technical point of view, the DVD had problems. For all I know, the original presentation had the same problems. The lip sync was really bad. You'd have thought it was dubbed, although the actors were clearly speaking English. The odd thing was, it even sounded dubbed. The volume varied, and, well, it was just odd. The special effects actually made me laugh out loud at one point. When Michael T Weiss melted (yes, melted), it looked like someone had just tipped a load of gloop on him. And the werewolves, they looked like the first Buffy werewolves looked, except worse. I could forgive this because it was made in 1988, but I'm not even sure what the point of him melting was.

And don't get me started on the plot. The acting wasn't so bad, but it wasn't great either. Apart from the person who played Janice, Susanne Severid, who was probably the best person in it. But it's hard to see how people could act decently in such an awful film. I think I'll try and sell it on eBay and get my money back!

After I'd watched that it was 12.45am, so I thought I might as well stay up and watch the GP qualifying. The session started at 2am, and I only had 25 minutes to waste until the coverage started. When it did start, I fell asleep occasionally, which meant it got slightly confusing. I can never remember much about what's happened when I stay up to watch F1. Annoying, that. The session was red flagged quite early on, because of an incident between Villeneuve and Coulthard, probably. And Sato's Jordan bit the dust, which was infortunate as it left the two Jordan drivers with one car between them to qualify! (Sato had crashed the other one. Not his fault though.) I remember that the Ferraris were annoyingly fast, but it's not a surprise. The other teams had to set up new cars, but Ferrari were using a slightly evolved model from last year. It all got a bit pointless when the rain started. Rain in Australia, who would have thought? Meant no-one could go quicker. Barrichello is on pole. I'll definitely be getting up in the early hours of the morning to see what happens in the race... Nice.

All that happened last night! And for a change I actually did things today, as well. Well, mainly one thing. And that was John, my brother's, fault. He decided he wanted to get a PS2. We went into town, visited every single shop that sold them, and came to the conclusion that they were £199.99 everywhere. That and there seems to be a shortage of memory cards. We had a nice Marks and Spencers sandwich by the seafront. It was a lovely day - sunny and warm. Has spring finally arrived? Sometimes it's good to live by the seaside. Am I rambling? *grin*

We bought a PS2, finally. And also a new TV to use with it. We got the PS2 in somewhere called Gamestation - they had this deal where you go the PS2 and Max Payne for £214.99. Not bad. And we got the TV in Argos. Argos wasn't much fun. Queues and grumpy shop staff. When I spent all week trying to be pleasant to customers, I like to meet friendly staff when I go shopping! It nearly killed John carrying a 12kg TV back to the car. Heh. (Now that sounded evil!)

I think I'll shut up now. I'm supposed to be chatting to the other 6DStargate people. :-)

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