I guess I haven't blogged for a while. I probably wouldn't have today except for the fact that I can't play WoW - it won't accept payment on my account with my credit card, debit card, or Rob's debit card. Which is odd. I'm too scared to phone, though I did e-mail their help thingummy.

One person did ask whether I had any other stories I could post (hello Mark!), so that's at least one person who enjoyed the Indy story. He had already read it once, but still. Maybe it's even more flattering that he's read it twice and still liked it the second time. I suppose I do have some more stories but most of them are a bit odd (in a Stargate sort of way!).

Apparently lots of people have problems with their WoW accounts, so it's not just me. I don't know if that makes me feel any better. :p

It was my brother John's birthday yesterday so we had some birthday related fun going on - went for a carvery Friday night, then had Rachel and John round for dinner Saturday (we made curry and a banoffee pie), which did involve some Rock Band (woo!) and Sunday there was a present opening ceremony. We bought him a George Foreman grill to make paninis and a radio controlled boat, among other things.

Rock Band is pretty good fun - we had to wait long enough for it to come out on the PS3! We bought the instrument pack (guitar, drums and microphone) so we've been playing with bands of varying people. If Ali gets a PS3 at some point I expect she'll get it as well, then we'll have two guitars. So we can have bass. Woo!

Or as Rock Band would say, awesome!

We were lent an Owl (they're doing an energy challenge at work) so we've been monitoring our electricity usage for the past few days. I have to take it back tomorrow so they can give it to one of the families that'll be taking part in their challenge. I was surprised that turning stuff off instead of leaving it on standby didn't save MORE power, since that's what everyone talks about. We discovered that Rob's PC uses 4 times more energy than my brother's laptop to play WoW, and mine uses 2 times more. So PCs are quite variable. That was a bit interesting. :)

I did notice that the TV uses a lot less power when it's displaying nothing (or black), I don't know whether any black parts of the screen count as displaying nothing. It's a hi-def TV, flat screen thing, not a CRT. This led me to wonder whether using Blackle really would save a lot more energy than using Google. Hmmmmmm.

So, that's a bit of what I've been up to. :)

posted by Fiery Fred @ 7:06 PM