girlofprey

We've got an electrical storm flashing disco lights across the sky where we are. No rain, no thunder, but on just one side of the house there's sheet lightning flashing across the sky once every few minutes. It's pretty awesome.

Anyway. In what I'm sure is more interesting news than my job-hunt, I decided the computer that the guy in my computer games' shop's mum was selling wasn't really for me. I started looking at some of the new games coming out that I wasn't even paying attention to, because I didn't have a machine that could play them, and a lot of them need a much more powerful processor. His mum's only had Intel i3, which is what my laptop actually has at the moment. So I said thanks but no, and that I'd have to go to PC World instead, and he said you were generally better off and saved more money by building your own. So...I'm thinking about it. If it's cheaper, I may as well. It's a lot easier to get parts than I thought, Amazon literally sells them off individually, but none of the sites I've seen so far in my search for 'how to build a gaming PC' actually tell you how to build a gaming PC. It's just 'pitfalls for the beginner to avoid', not literally how the nuts and bolts screw together. So I'm continuing to search. Because I'm a fool who always wants to go big or go home, I have my heart set on an Intel i7 processor. The rest of the parts are to be confirmed, i.e. whatever some site tells me are the best ones. A site like techradar or pcgamer though. I'm not a total mug.

I like summer thunderstorms, but I don't like being caught in them, which I just was when I attempted to go for today's walk. Did anyone else get thunderstorms on Friday night? I had my window open, so the sheer noise of the rain woke me up first, then the constant flashing - more than we had of thunder - and then when I tried to get back to sleep thunder that sounded like a bomb going off kept waking me up. But then the next morning my dad claimed the lightning woke him up but he didn't hear any thunder, and my ON slept straight through all of it apparently.

I'm currently playing Affordable Space Adventures on the Wii U, and if more people on my flist were gamers and had Wii U's I would recommend it to everyone. I specifically got it because a game magazine I had said it was great, it was a Wii U exclusive, and it made a real point of using everything it could on the Wii U gamepad, every experience you couldn't get on any other console. And it's all true, and it's amazing. It's sort of Portal-like, but without any sort of GlaDOS figure. Just an eerie/cute sci-fi puzzler. It's really making me enjoy the Wii U - the way a game that used everything the PS Vita could do really made me enjoy the PS Vita. But everywhere I'm looking is saying the PS Vita and Wii U are commercial failures (which is true, but not because they're terrible machines), and very few game designers are tailoring ANYTHING specifically to what they can do, and there probably won't be that many games for them at all in the future and they're basically 'dead'. Sigh.

Does everyone know about Nicki Minaj's Starships? If not:



And have another song I have just discovered and love, could probably describe quite a lot of my pairings. Annoyingly, I have the album it's supposed to be on, so it's probably a bonus track on a version I don't have. Warning: It is a bit murdery.

Hello. I just back from London. Sadly, I forgot to turn on the boiler before going to get food and eating some of it, so I can't have a shower for another half an hour or so. Probably I should be unpacking, but we all know LJ is where it's at. And it can wait.

I went to London. Possibly I didn't mention that before I went. I was at Cee's, who is lovely, and fed me cake, and only slightly tortured me with her bizarre neighbours.

On Friday we went to see Order of the Phoenix. ( Spoilers )

And then on Saturday we went for a Greasy Spoon breakfast and I made her watch Welcome to Collinwood (oh God, Sam Rockwell). She seemed to like it. And was quite nice about my random babbling about Peter/Sylar. Mostly I owe her for quite a lot this weekend. THANKS, CEE. And then - I don't even know where the time went, we were going to see a football match and I SAID YES but Cee backed down, and then we went to a tiny little stuffy room above a pub, in which we cleverly positioned ourselves next to the only open window, and watched a secret gig with Rich Hall. Rich Hall is great. He told massive lies to a taxi driver about being a rocket scientist trying to stop an explosion, and the taxi driver was suprised because he thought Rich only wrote a book about Sniglets. Mostly Rich said Britain was great for not being upset about explosions or much of anything really, and complained about there being no air in the room. And I made eye contact with a nice looking boy near the front a number of times. Which was pleasant. Sadly the seven months pregnant female Iranian comedian who was meant to be on after Rich couldn't make it, but we stayed and listened to some songs about Spain and senoritas, and then a guy who'd just got of the stage at some other bar be funny for five or ten minutes, and then went home.

Today I was not woken up by Cee's neighbours knocking on the door and trying to get a couch up the stairs. Just Cee wanting to jump on me. We had cake for breakfast, and watched the Hot Fuzz commentary, from which we mostly learned that Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright are a bit in love with Timothy Dalton. Searching for fic afterwards led us finding the Hot Fuzz fic archive, though it sadly does not include much fic about the aforementioned Dalton. Inexplicably. Then we tried to learn blackjack (mostly failed), watched the last episode of Heroes, and I ATTEMPTED to show Cee the glory of macros. It didn't so much work. And then I came home. It was all very good.

Also, Cee's mouse is great. If a bit trippy.

I guess the boiler will be done by now. I have to go get a shower for work. I keep meaning to post about work. Remind me tomorrow.

Ooh, lightning.