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Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, DVDs, Dining Out, Games, Site News

This evening I went out to help Pukka cel­e­brate his last night as a sin­gle man. We went over to the Can­te­bury Inn’s restuarant/bar and had big, big gob­lets of alco­holic bev­er­ages. It was no wild party with strip­pers and hook­ers. But we had fun any­way; at least, I think we had fun. The night is kind of blurry in my memory. :)

I also fin­ished read­ing Joe Haldeman’s For­ever War, which I’m happy to say that I enjoyed very much. Basi­cally the story deals with a war with an alien race viewed from the per­spec­tive of one of our sol­diers and how space travel (with the accom­pa­ny­ing rel­a­tivis­tic effects) affected his life. The story is a bit dated now (some of the events take place start­ing in the 1990s) but it’s still a good read and over­all, I give it 4.5 out of 5 points.

Next up, I’ll be read­ing Robert A. Heinlein’s Num­ber of the Beast. This book is about dou­ble the pre­vi­ous 2 I’ve read com­bined so it might be a bit longer before I make any fur­ther com­ments on it. On the other hand, when I read Heinlein’s work; I usu­ally get so absorbed into it that I for­get about time/sleep/food, so it might take less time than I think.

On a dif­fer­ent note, I updated my copy of the Ama­zon Media Man­ager hack for Word­Press. As such, you can now see what video games; I’m cur­rently play­ing (UT2004 — rockin’!, Wild Arms 2 — ‘sokay). I’ve also added another DVD set to the movies I’m watching.

Ultra­vi­o­let is the mod­ern, vam­pire thriller mini-series that was made over in Brit­ian. I’ve had it for a while but just restarted watch­ing it the other night and it’s fan­tas­tic, though that bit in the 2nd episode where the biker girl is walk­ing around gives me the willies! If you like British movies/tv or are just a fan of well made vam­pire sto­ries; I highly rec­om­mend you check this out!

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