The Patent Dragon's Zone of Soul Retraction

ITEM! Finally catching up with the new football season, just in time to see my team go 1-2. Just like I caught up with the games deciding who plays in the AFL Grand Final, only to discover that the Magpies lost to the Sydney Swans - shame that doesn't feature on mainstream TV any more.

Huh? I'd heard that the Monday Night Football was getting covered on the BBC, but it's in iPlayer too? *looks* Yup. There it is... pity that iPlayer kinda prevents me doing other substantial net-stuff, or I'd be seriously looking forward to running the replay through the big TV. Might try some light STO...

ITEM! Next week features another milestone, above and beyond my Mission 101 conclusion; that being the final appearance of the Ponds in Doctor Who. The impact is going to have to be significant, as this split-season format is rather limiting the series, and preventing it from developing any interesting story-threads at present. The Dalek one was good, the following episode sneaked in a Silurian connection, which was intriguing, but nothing has really wowed yet. I suspect, however, that Saturday will deliver - last year's mid-season break managed to do that particularly well. In Moff We Trust.

ITEM! My elbow is gradually improving, my ankle is *shrugs* stable, I guess. I hope I'm ready for Patent Saturday.

ITEM! Considering my 2013 travel options. Could I be Monaco Grand Prix bound...?

Bloody Typical... The Redskins have rather sucked this season, but how do we end it? With cornerback DeAngelo Hall getting MVP honours at the Pro Bowl - the only player we had in the NFC team until the Packers had to pull their players for Super Bowl duties next week. That is about the only positive to having the all-star game in the otherwise empty week before The Big Game, a recent development not many are happy with - what's the point of a big showcase game that isn't going to showcase some of the best talent in the sport right now - on the rosters of the Packers and Steelers.

At least the Pro Bowl is back where it should be - Hawaii. Now just shift it back to the week after the Super Bowl, and all will be well again...

Development News... Didn't do much towards TDD-609 ...Second Movement at lunch, but I did piece together another plot-sheet for the remainder of Season Six - exactly as I told myself I wouldn't do. I do, however, have a solid REIGNFALL outline now, and I am attacking the rest of the Season from both sides. I have added an event to the schedule, which I'm just about to start writing, but I could have everything leading up to the Season finale done well before my "set in stone" May deadline.

For real.

In The News... Well, bugger this - I've been thinking about doing some travelling, seeing a bit more of the world... but one of the destinations I really want to visit is in political chaos right now. Yeah, I'm meaning Egypt. That's a real pain, as a trip to Egypt would allow me to directly nail TWO Mission tasks in one go, and a third indirectly:

18 - Renew my passport
20 - Set foot in another foreign country (not the US!)
21 - Travel East overseas at least once

It wouldn't be the end of the world, or the Mission, to try somewhere else - Jersey looks nice, and it's just East enough to count for Task 21...