Games and Prevarications

I'm writing this in Debenhams' café, drinking a large Diet Pepsi and eating a Double Choc Chip Cookie.

I was in Game earlier today, looking at different PC games I might be interested in. I bought Oblivion (a role-playing game) a while back but it turned out my PC isn't powerful enough to run it so the game's in a cupboard until I have to buy another PC. I think it's the RAM that's the problem so I'll make sure the new machine's got loads. I think it has to be huge because there's so much going on as you play. I was looking at Call of Cthulhu, Morrowind and The Da Vinci Code. CoC caught my eye because there's been some discussion about Cthulhu and Lovecraft's books on Outpost Gallifrey because of the look of the Ood (see below), apparently there are some similarities.

Two of my favourite games on the Playstation are Broken Sword One and Two. They are quite old "point and click" style games, but I love solving the clues, and they've got excellent storylines. TDC looks quite similar (but doesn't get a good review on Amazon).

I was looking and thinking, "well, £19.99 isn't too bad, although I could wait until I saw it second-hand". But I decided I wouldn't buy a second-hand PC game, just because of any virus problems, or damage they might do to the PC. I buy most of my Playstation games second-hand, and never had any problems with them.

Then I thought, "this is just more prevarication". I've written hardly anything in the last few months, mostly because of Doctor Who, I think. When the series was on the TV I was spending most of my time on DW sites talking and reading about the previous week's episode and the one to come (and also complete nonsense on other parts of the OG Forum!!

The series is over now until next year, although the spin-off Torchwood starts on the BBC in October. Both series are being filmed at the moment so there are always site reports to read, and pictures of aliens in Cardiff.

I really need to cut down on the amount of time I spend there so I can spend more time working on my writing. I was reading a friend's short(!) story on OG, and it's inspired me to kick-start myself again *crosses fingers*

*Looks up at what she's just written*

I think this is the most I've written in one go in MONTHS!!!

This is encouraging, although it might mean I need to spend more time in cafés! I think that's where J K Rowling started off, so it's no bad place to be. The good thing about this one is that it's quite big and right at the back of the shop. Most people stop at the little bistros they have near the entrances, so there's no problem about me sitting here in the corner for an hour.

I'm also waiting for Boots to develop my pictures in One-Hour (actually One-Hour and a Half because the developing man was on lunch when I took them in!) But more on them later....

*Looks up again*

I think I might have gone a bit overboard with the linkage!! *lol*