Demiurgic

I thought I’d spend most of this post talking about writing. The first drafts of Don’t Give Up The Day Job are done and dusted. Some of them are [awesome], some of them are [good], some of them [need work], some of them are [terrible] and there is one I am [embarrassed to have my name on]. As usual, they key is in the title. And now the onus is not on me. At least not for another week or two. It’s given me a lot of time to chill out. I have hammered RIFT, though I still haven’t reached top level. Though this is mostly because I am enjoying the view as the levels and zones race by. I have finished Enslaved & Fable III and been disappointed by Riddick: Dark Athena & Dead Space 2. I have almost caught up with Supernatural. I have generally lazed about. There’ just one problem, though:

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As you may or my not have read at my Facebook page or in another blog, my laptop died shortly after I went on holiday to Newcastle. It was quite a traumatic time for me as the best I could manage was surfing the ‘net at work (which was restricting, by and large thanks to a prohibitive block on anything interesting) or on my phone, which was useful for keeping tabs on Joystq, io9, Facebook and my e-mail. And pretty much nothing else at all. I’ve had my laptop back for a week or so now but catching up on everything has taken so much time I haven’t really had time to blog anything substantial. So I thought rather than write any kind of crappy micro posts I would wait until I could post something awesome. Or, you know, at least something long.

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