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Mar. 4th, 2011 10:21 pmHello, it's me again. It probably doesn't need saying at this point, but I'm not doing a pairing picspam today. I still don't have my antivirus protection sorted out, so I can't relaly use my computer at the moment. My current situation with my antivirus protection is that I went into my local WH Smiths, not expecting them to be selling Norton Antivirus protection, but they were, but it was the new 2011 package so even with the discount they were offering it was still £35.99. Which is better value than £39.99 to update my old package, but not much cheaper. My dad either looked at the licenses he's got and found out they were no good and didn't tell me, or decided not to do that and didn't tell me, or forgot about it, but he's not mentioned it since. But he's said that if people have Barclays online banking, which I have, they can get free antivirus protection packages with that. But he didn't say what kind or how good they were, so I'm meant to be looking it up, which I haven't yet. But yes. My progress is still basically in the planning stages.
Meanwhile, I have been playing lots of Black And White 2 again, and am nearly finished with it. I'm on the last level, and things were looking a bit awful for a while, but I got some unexpected in-game help and now I just have to impress the Aztecs or destroy them. One of the two. But anyway. I got excited a few days ago, because I thought that if Black And White 2 works on my new laptop when it didn't on my old one, maybe Oblivion, which I never bought because my old computer didn't meet the system requirements, might work on it too. Oblivion is one of the Elder Scrolls games, in the same series as Morrowind. I may have mentioned before that I LOVE THEM INCREDIBLY. And it looks like Oblivion totally would work on my new laptop, so I'm pretty excited to get that at some point. Except not now, because with the two expansion packs it's still about £40. BUT, Bethesda announced suprisingly last year, after no word on it for ages, that they were bringing out a new Elder Scrolls game in November this year, Skyrim. And after thinking maybe Oblivion would work on my new laptop, I briefly thought that maybe Skyrim would work on it as well, given that it's a brand new laptop, and they are unlikely to make a game that you can't play on anything that wasn't bought a few days before the game came out. But then I remembered I have a new laptop, and it's PCs that the games are generally designed to be played on. And there are no system requirements out for Skyrim out at the moment, but based on some predicted system requirements someone made, it sounds like it wouldn't work on my laptop. Which is pretty irritating because generally, I was a lot more psyched about ( General spoilers for Skyrim storyline ) than political intrigue in the Imperial City. But whatever. I probably can't convince my dad I need a brand new pc in the same year as I got a brand new laptop. Oh well.
In other news, blah. I'm still not unpacked from London. I don't think my bank account is looking very healthy. Past Times has some new jewellery out for this season, and some of it's lovely and costs more than a few pounds, and that isn't really fair. I watched the last episode of Mad Dogs. And I just recently watched the episode of Emmerdale after detective Nick something shot himself in front of Katie and OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD. Everything I predicted about how she would react to it and towards Andy came true but even worse than I imagined, oh God. And I can't stand how soaps have women do bad things but for justified (to them) reasons and then let people/men shout at them in a really intimidating/demeaning way over it, I really can't. They've done it to Becky in Coronation Street this week, and they did it to Ruth in Casualty, and oh my God. I properly hate it. But David's turned up with fiancee, finally. A few weeks ago the actress playing her was doing an interview in one of the soap mags and discussing how Gail would react, and the woman said everyone knew how "possessive" Gail was over David. Hmm. Possessive. Yes. She was getting a bit possessive tonight. I'm sure this will turn out pretty much as well as the last time Nick got engaged to someone. Although David's slightly less inclined to take it from her, I think. Well, we'll see if they make it to the wedding, I guess.
Meanwhile, I have been playing lots of Black And White 2 again, and am nearly finished with it. I'm on the last level, and things were looking a bit awful for a while, but I got some unexpected in-game help and now I just have to impress the Aztecs or destroy them. One of the two. But anyway. I got excited a few days ago, because I thought that if Black And White 2 works on my new laptop when it didn't on my old one, maybe Oblivion, which I never bought because my old computer didn't meet the system requirements, might work on it too. Oblivion is one of the Elder Scrolls games, in the same series as Morrowind. I may have mentioned before that I LOVE THEM INCREDIBLY. And it looks like Oblivion totally would work on my new laptop, so I'm pretty excited to get that at some point. Except not now, because with the two expansion packs it's still about £40. BUT, Bethesda announced suprisingly last year, after no word on it for ages, that they were bringing out a new Elder Scrolls game in November this year, Skyrim. And after thinking maybe Oblivion would work on my new laptop, I briefly thought that maybe Skyrim would work on it as well, given that it's a brand new laptop, and they are unlikely to make a game that you can't play on anything that wasn't bought a few days before the game came out. But then I remembered I have a new laptop, and it's PCs that the games are generally designed to be played on. And there are no system requirements out for Skyrim out at the moment, but based on some predicted system requirements someone made, it sounds like it wouldn't work on my laptop. Which is pretty irritating because generally, I was a lot more psyched about ( General spoilers for Skyrim storyline ) than political intrigue in the Imperial City. But whatever. I probably can't convince my dad I need a brand new pc in the same year as I got a brand new laptop. Oh well.
In other news, blah. I'm still not unpacked from London. I don't think my bank account is looking very healthy. Past Times has some new jewellery out for this season, and some of it's lovely and costs more than a few pounds, and that isn't really fair. I watched the last episode of Mad Dogs. And I just recently watched the episode of Emmerdale after detective Nick something shot himself in front of Katie and OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD. Everything I predicted about how she would react to it and towards Andy came true but even worse than I imagined, oh God. And I can't stand how soaps have women do bad things but for justified (to them) reasons and then let people/men shout at them in a really intimidating/demeaning way over it, I really can't. They've done it to Becky in Coronation Street this week, and they did it to Ruth in Casualty, and oh my God. I properly hate it. But David's turned up with fiancee, finally. A few weeks ago the actress playing her was doing an interview in one of the soap mags and discussing how Gail would react, and the woman said everyone knew how "possessive" Gail was over David. Hmm. Possessive. Yes. She was getting a bit possessive tonight. I'm sure this will turn out pretty much as well as the last time Nick got engaged to someone. Although David's slightly less inclined to take it from her, I think. Well, we'll see if they make it to the wedding, I guess.
