Death by Milk Truck ( almost )

Have you ever had one of those days where you should've just stayed in bed ?, I've been having a week like that, it just seems to be one thing after another at the moment.

I was out for a walk early this morning ( very early actually around 6:30am ) and a truck delivering milk to a local hotel rounds a corner and drives up onto the footpath nearly hitting me, his excuse was there usually never anyone there so he shouldn't need to slow down and check to see if anyone is there first and no amount or arguing was going to make him think otherwise, I continued my walk and the heavens themselves opened up with the kind of downpour that would make Noah think he was doomed, the rest of the day was just a series on really annoying events, with any luck tomorrow will be better.

I did pick up a few DVDs this afternoon so I guess the day hasn't been a total travesty, tomorrow I'm expecting a plague of locusts.

One of those days

This morning my wife did something to her knee, don't know what it was but she did a good job of it since it's now in a splint and shes on crutches and has an appointment with a surgeon later in the week, it seems that it may be a complication of an injury she received when some idiot t-boned her and my daughter on Christmas day last year, apparently you only have to obey traffic laws when you think other people will be on the road, not sure what he was thinking since I know a lot of people who travel even if it's only short distances on Christmas.

We spent the better part of a day at the hospital getting her checked out and then I arrive home to hear my favorite podcast SciFi Dig is going away ( at least for a while ), no-one was killed and the world didn't end but today has been kind of a drag.

Survivors

I've started watching the original version of Survivors on DVD, this was I show I remember seeing on TV as a kid and finding it rather creepy, while it is dated in some respects ( it was made in the mid-70s ) I found the first two episodes to be very effective, it will be interesting to see if the producers of the show managed to maintain the quality levels throughout the series.

This show doesn't have the production values of the recent remake series but so far at least the original version of the series has been much more atmospheric.


If anyone is interested amazon UK have the complete series boxset on sale at the moment.

and knowing is half the battle.

I sat down to watch the animated G.I. JOE movie this afternoon and as far as movies go it was ok but I just had to stop watching about halfway through, the picture quality on the DVD I have is just terrible, I have the region 2 DVD released by Prism Entertainment - this version should be avoided at all costs.

I'm planning on picking up a better quality copy of the movie at some point, this is the second DVD I've bought that was released by Prism Entertainment and like the previous title Hard Boiled this was a poor quality release so it would seem that Prism releases should be avoided in general.

Supernatural Season 4

I've been watching the fourth season of Supernatural on Blu-ray over the last few days, the show came back strong and I really enjoyed the first three episodes for the season but what is the point of setting up a season long story arc if you are then going to mostly ignore it or even worse reveal that a lot of the important action is happening off camera ?

I had high hopes for this season but it seems it's still the muddled mess it's always been, hopefully things will inprove with the second half of the season.

Catching Up

I've been catching up on a few movies I really should've seen by now, last night I watched Sky High, the Extras: Christmas Special and How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, I've finally made a start on season four of Supernatural as well as Flash Forward, Flash Forward started out well but I'm starting to get bored with it now.

I've also finished the second season of Dead Like Me along with the TV movie, it was an interesting show but I have mixed feelings about the TV movie.

Kiss of Death

Well just the other day I was saying that I hadn't had any type of computer virus in years and it's true I hadn't but I should have just shut the hell up and not said a thing because it seems no sooner had I opened my mouth than my system had been hijacked by a piece of crap adware program - I messed around with it a bit yesterday but I decided it was more hassle that it was worth and spent a decent part of this afternoon reinstalling Windows and various other programs - perhaps next time I won't tempt fate by opening my big mouth.