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Mixed news
Sep. 15th, 2006 12:00 amThere are three items of news here. One is good. One is very good. One is good but actually seems like bad news. For the sake of simplicity I'll do that one first.
A letter arrived at Whitney's parents' house this morning. It was from the US Immigration Something, giving me an appointment to have my biometrics taken (whatever those are) on the 23rd - that's next Saturday. So this is good, because it means that things are going ahead with the work permit and I won't have to become a Civ 4 timewaster by profession. But it's such an inconvenience to get an early morning flight next weekend and work out transport to the airport, and it just seems like being in transit again just when we were beginning to settle down and forget about this whole thing. This is survivable, but I'm not looking forward to it.
Good news. Our sofas are being delivered tomorrow. We were meant to get them yesterday, but the van driver was injured on his round by being squashed flat by a refrigerator and they had to take him to hospital to inflate him again, so he never got round to us. With the addition of the sofas, the large gap at the other side of our living room will be filled, and I will finally be able to post pictures of the flat here that aren't the floor or bits of my desk.
Really, really, extremely good news. But only if you're British. You can now download a few episodes of Bad Influence from the official fansite (I think there are four, spread over all four series of the programme). I've already watched the one that featured Ecco the Dolphin, and not once did they mention that the game would render you unable to sleep for several days after playing. Like I said, it's only truly valuable for the nostalgia if you saw it when it was originally on, but I think it's still interesting to look at what was in the game/technology related news ten years ago - don't miss the bit where the CD-i is featured as the future of home entertainment.
A letter arrived at Whitney's parents' house this morning. It was from the US Immigration Something, giving me an appointment to have my biometrics taken (whatever those are) on the 23rd - that's next Saturday. So this is good, because it means that things are going ahead with the work permit and I won't have to become a Civ 4 timewaster by profession. But it's such an inconvenience to get an early morning flight next weekend and work out transport to the airport, and it just seems like being in transit again just when we were beginning to settle down and forget about this whole thing. This is survivable, but I'm not looking forward to it.
Good news. Our sofas are being delivered tomorrow. We were meant to get them yesterday, but the van driver was injured on his round by being squashed flat by a refrigerator and they had to take him to hospital to inflate him again, so he never got round to us. With the addition of the sofas, the large gap at the other side of our living room will be filled, and I will finally be able to post pictures of the flat here that aren't the floor or bits of my desk.
Really, really, extremely good news. But only if you're British. You can now download a few episodes of Bad Influence from the official fansite (I think there are four, spread over all four series of the programme). I've already watched the one that featured Ecco the Dolphin, and not once did they mention that the game would render you unable to sleep for several days after playing. Like I said, it's only truly valuable for the nostalgia if you saw it when it was originally on, but I think it's still interesting to look at what was in the game/technology related news ten years ago - don't miss the bit where the CD-i is featured as the future of home entertainment.
