So Ends Sunday.

In Today's Episode... PIRATES OF FREEPORT continues, and Mane-of-Night gets more "up-close and personal" with her audience, and some of them have more than watching dancers on their minds. Our heroine may have a more complicated job to do than she expected...

Release Notes... I would've had this blog post in "under the wire" if I hadn't wanted to get the story post in on time. Oh yeah, and the stupid spelling checking in Open Office. How do I tell it just to use the UK dictionary?

Elsewhat... I really, really hate this stupid split-season of Formula 1 coverage. Canada is one of those races getting full coverage on what I would NOT call a public channel, and not only did I miss the start of the "highlights" package, I barely saw any of the race. Why can't the satellite channels take the sodding European soccer championships instead? That's going to be wall-to-wall for about a month, on TWO of the "terrestrial" channels. FFS...

And Finally... I may just have lost interest in DC Universe Online. I took on a different, lower-level mission, but here we go again - an "end-mission" than I can't beat. That gets "old" very quickly - especially when you're having to run away to get gear repaired - and PAY for it - after three attempts. Just TOO frustrating.

The Smouldering Ruins Of Sunday, And Other Such Nonsense

ITEM! Games news - in Skyrim, what I'd thought would be a short, simple quest turned out to be a proper - and quite literal - pain in the ass.

( Cue tedious Skyrim tale - skip it if you want. Includes possible game spoilers... )

Someone find me a bandit camp, and an unassailable vantage point. I got me a pretty sweet archery set, and a brand new Fireball spell. Someone has to PAY... or maybe I'll load up a previous save, take Barky-Thing to a lonely mountain-top, and Fireball and FUS RO DAH the miserable beast into the afterlife.

ITEM! Talking of archery, there was a piece on today's "breakfast news" about the rise in popularity of the sport leading up to the Olympics, and how it's been inspired by archers in the movies. "Here goes some face-time for Hawkeye in AVENGERS", I'm thinking, but noooooo - it's all about the heroine in Hunger Games, and the lead character in upcoming Pixar movie Brave - also a girl. Not even the slightest acknowledgement of Hawkeye.

That's bloody sexism.

And finally...

ITEM! My last time-sheet was a major pain. It had to be "done online", or so I was informed, and THAT was an unbounded joy - NOT. Once I got the damn thing to work, I was told, at the end that...

*...takes a deep breath...*

...I had to print it out. Twice. They still, at the end of it all, want a piece of friggin' paper.

Madness. Not a "game-breaker", but still... so much for the "paperless office".