A while ago (two years ago pretty much) I wrote about Diablo 3 when they released some gameplay videos, teasers, and so on. Now the existence of D3 is becoming much more of a reality, and it is pants-wettingly exciting. Word on the street is that there is a closed beta going on. Chances are pretty high that I won’t get an invite, but here’s hoping, eh?
I’ve gotta say, having briefly skimmed through Day9′s D3 stream from yesterday, I am really excited. I just hope it lives up to my expectations. Bear in mind, I still play Diablo 2+exp quite often (although I wouldn’t say I’m a hardcore player by any means), D2 has set the bar incredibly high. It’s one of my favourite games of all time, and I really hope that the D3 release won’t just be spurned by rabid D2 fans finding out that D3 is a pile of tosh (ahem – WoW).
So – read more about Diablo 3 here, or read the Beta announcement and opt-in FAQs.
SO EXCITING!
Jasper made some breakfast this morning and it looked good. So me and Freyja went to the shop and got our own breakfast, which I have to say is much better. Purely because our sausages were made out of real meat. And ours has bacon. Real bacon. Mmmm bacon. Bacon is good. And toast. The only thing that’s not as good is the picture, but I’m no photographer, so I used my camera phone.
I also thought I’d throw in a picture of Kali and Freyja for luck. Freyja is shown here modelling her new buoyancy aid that her Granny (my Mum) bought for her to go swimming in France.
Kali couldn’t resist getting in the picture either, although I’m not sure she realises what it’s all about. She’s definitely a puppy, and more than a handful. Taking her on walks is a real struggle, but I’m sure we’ll get there. She’s only 15 weeks old bless her, but my she’s growing! In fact, this is her like 5 minutes ago:
If you’re wondering what the white powder is all over her head, it’s not dandruff, it’s sand from Freyja’s sand table we were playing with earlier and Kali decided to roll in some sand that had fallen off. Silly puppy!
My attempts to actually do proper blog posts (excluding Metal Mummy Movie Memes which appear to have dominated my blog since it launched) have been failing miserably of late. For this I do profusely apologise. I’m sure you all share the insane busyness that has been engulfing my life, and I know for a fact many of my friends do! In fact the only thing I’ve been doing recently is working and finding any moment I can to better myself at Starcraft 2, which isn’t going too well in all honesty. Never mind, this blog post is sponsored by my long awaited holiday which has suddenly freed up my time. Laptops are being left at home, and phones will be switched off – yes this will be an actual real life holiday!
We’re currently sat in Stoke on Trent (in Linda’s freezing cold house) sorting out the final bits and pieces of packing and shopping (hooray I have real flip flops now). Hannah is busy writing a couple of blog posts so that prompted me to do the same!
For those that don’t know, I’m taking a 7 day break from the stress of life, work and PHP and swanning off to Ölüdeniz in Turkey to enjoy some quality family time with Hannah, Freyja and the mother-in-law-to-be. I don’t have any specific plans for what to do, but I know that I’m going to do my best to chill to the max. I really am exhausted and really can’t wait to just unplug from everything. So… if my server goes down, or there’s an emergency at work, well you guys will just have to cope without me for a little while. It’s probably not such a bad thing if my server goes down for a while… less of my inane rubbish that spurts forth from my fingers into your eyes. And… with my low blogging frequency no-one will probably notice anyway!
So, here’s to me finally having a holiday, I can’t wait. So long and thanks for all the fish. Thanks for reading folks, that’s a wrap.
Hannah’s Metal Mummy Movie Meme is going from strength to strength and this week is the 10th week of running! Well done baby, keep it up! This week’s theme is Horror… I’m going for one that is a fantastic film which I love, and although it is a horror film, most of it doesn’t scare me apart from one particular scene that I find quite creepy…
The Orphanage
As I said, the film as a whole I didn’t find particularly scary. A great story and has parts in that would probably scare others, but as a generalisation I would say I’m not scared by this film. Apart from one particular scene towards the end of the film where they play a game called “Knock on the Wall”. It brings out creepy ghost children and there’s just something about that that just makes me want to hide under a cushion. It’s just creepy, those ghostly children creeping up on her like that. Argh! Probably going to have nightmares now Hannah brought up this topic… doh!
Anyway, head on over to Hannah’s amazing blog and check out all the other entries – NOW!!
My stonkingly gorgeous fiancée Hannah has today put up another Metal Mummy’s Movie Meme post, so I’m right back in there, like a buzzard. This week’s category is Favourite Actress, and I agree this is quite a hard one. I made a shortlist which includes Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith, Milla Jovovich, but I finally settled on…
Dame Judi Dench
I think Judi Dench is fantastic – she makes a brilliant M. She’s got a huge film history and lots of stage acting experience, including directing. She’s been awarded a myriad of awards and recognised all over the place. With such a good career, you’d think I’d have more to talk about, but she is so well known it’s hard to find anything new to talk about her, so I’ll leave at that!
A while ago (two years ago pretty much) I wrote about Diablo 3 when they released some gameplay videos, teasers, and so on. Now the existence of D3 is becoming much more of a reality, and it is pants-wettingly exciting. Word on the street is that there is a closed beta going on. Chances are pretty high that I won’t get an invite, but here’s hoping, eh?
