Another week, another something or other

I know, I know, been almost silent again. Dunno why but I'm finding it hard to write at the moment.

Well, actually I do know why - I've been absolutely exhausted with work recently. I'm doing about 3 different jobs at the same time right now and trying to keep about a dozen plates in the air. When I get home if I've not got a rehearsal, I'm just collapsing in a heap!

On a more positive front, I booked our plane tickets for WisCon today! Only 3.5 months to go... We're also looking at what we are doing later in the year. It's my 40th birthday in November, so we are thinking of doing something special. Top of the list of possibilities is an 8-day tour of Japan, which for a stay-at-home sort of guy like me is both exciting and pretty scary.

It does mean that between the two trips we are not going to get more than a long weekend or two away during the summer but not to worry...

Otherwise, life is okay. Rehearsals are going well - only seven weeks to go now before the show. Another month would have been good, but we are doing our best with the time we've got and on the main it has remained good fun.

We need to get a new cooker sometime soon - our grill has packed up. I'm using it as an excuse to get the standard gas hob replaced with a longer one with a wok burner.

I've not been getting any writing done recently. Somehow I just can't conjure up the enthusiasm right now (so much for New Year 'good intentions').

Mmm, takeaway night tonight...

Bones - the verdict

We've watched the first four or five episodes of Bones.

And the verdict is: virtually no resemblance to the books, but still fun in its own way. Given that, particularly in the early series, I always thought that the problem with Angel was Angel himself, I'm actually rather enjoying David Boreanas in this (and he must be enjoying filming in daylight...). Brennan herself is less likeable, but the two spark off each other entertainingly.

I do have to grit my teeth and suspend disbelief at times. They have Brennan and her people doing stuff that would surely be done by a CSI unit. I don't believe the hologramatic reconstruction stuff for a second (though I will, of course, eat my hat if someone tells me that it is all real...). And maybe it's different over here, but would a University facility really have all that space (half of which doesn't seem to be used for anything - we fit about 80 people into the same space in my office!), let alone all the equipment to fill it? Oh yes, and ditch the annoying grad student character (Zack? Something like that. It usually takes me about 20 episodes before I can remember names!).

So, quite good fun, but it's no CSI.