barely fatal

Weeks, thats is. I’m good for holidays.

Friday, I lost my banking card. Or it was stolen, who knows. No money is missing so far, but I have to wait a week or two before I get a new card, and the next bank isn’t exactly close by.

A friend and I enjoy playing Call Of Duty: WaW co-op, and the zombie level. It makes me want to buy Left 4 Dead after all. Oh well, maybe not. I found a buyer for Dead Space, don’t think I will play it twice.

Also, bought a Radeon 4870, mainly for Fallout 3. I figured I better buy it now, as long as I still get some money for my old card. Anyone need a 8800GT? Problem: the 4870 has two fans, and only one can be speed-controlled. The other one always spins at the same speed and is horribly loud. So I simply unplugged it. Ran a few tests at full load, and the card is stable, temperatures are still lower than with my old card, and it’s less noisy as well now.

GTA 4 is coming out next week and I’m totally excited (this game season really IS packed with great games), but I think I will wait and suggest it as a present for christmas I’m broke now anyway. Nobody can tell ME I didn’t support the global economy, being the good little consumer that I am. Darn.

Getting up early isn’t that hard, I mean, I’m just lazy, really. All I have to do is go to bed earlier.

YESSSS, riiiiiiight. There are two chronotypes, and many shades in between. It’s a biological fact.

Have you ever asked a left handed man to finally start writing with the right hand, everybody else can do it…?

Okay, real quick, just the basic facts. Maybe I’ll write more next weekend (right now, I’m too hungry. Tired. Hungry & tired).

I just came back from The Hague, where I spent the last four days on a conference. Learned some interesting new things, well, at least got a clearer view on the future of my noble profession. And on what I should do to make sure that it has one.

It was cool, very nice city, kinda November-like (who would have guessed), and yes it’s true, there are a few bikes in the Netherlands. A lot few. And it rains, too.

One evening my colleague and I went to see A Quantum Of Solace. Advantageously, they show movies in the original language versions (most, anyways) in the Netherlands, with sub titles. Overall entertaining, a little shallow in the way it tries to be exactly the opposite, and it helps to re-watch Casino Royale before you go see Quantum, as otherwise the story is a little hard to follow. Or totally inapprehensible. No gadgets, enough story holes and ridiculous stunts though to still feel like a Bond movie. If you ask me, it’s not totally bad, but Bourne’s better, and so is Casino Royale.

I picked up Fallout 3 on the way out, which was slightly cheaper than in the mother country, now I just hope I won’t need the manual, which of course is in Dutch.

Left 4 Dead demo is out, so download started.

Why does it take 8 hours to defrag my hard drive(s)?

Full moon, made a nice picture, maybe for a new skin…?

Just played Dead Space with the lights off and headphones on. I wonder if I can sleep. The monsters I don’t really care about, it’s the sounds that make my skin crawl.