Beowulf - Beowulf was a good movie. Not great, just good. more pro­fes­sional review­ers have com­mented about how eery the cold, soul­less eyes are. I was more put of by the fact that Beowulf: Mighty Dan­ish Hero speaks with a thick cock­ney accent. The win­ter scenes looked amaz­ing though.

Super Mario Galaxy - if I was to judge a game by how eas­ily it draws in Ange then SMG would get full marks. I like that you can send a score­card to peo­ple in your address book, but hate that you have to res­cue Luigi over and over. It begins to grate after the sec­ond time. If I wanted to play a game struc­tured around fetch quests I’d play Leg­end of Zelda. Which is a nice segue into the next point…

LoZ: Phan­tom Hour­glass - Fol­low up to my all time favourite Zelda game, Wind Waker. Showed exactly how an adven­ture game should be done on the DS. I’m still not sure about the end­ing. Loved the 4th wall break­ing puz­zles though.

Bodrum - A Turk­ish eatery in Essendon that rede­fines the term “slow food”.
We ordered the ban­quet for five around 7pm and received the final course (of six) around about 9:30 or so. The wait staff aban­doned us for nearly 30 min­utes after the fish course while also ignor­ing my ini­tial requests for them to fetch our bot­tles of wine from the cooler.

The Novel — Num­ber five on the Things To Do Before I Die list. I’ve put nearly 10,000 words down (much more than that if you count story notes) and wanted to put a few more thou­sand words down this week­end. But this fluey ill­ness, and it’s asso­ci­ated creaky pains, have been far too dis­tract­ing. I don’t want to reveal too much about it at this point in time, suf­fice to say that it’s code­named Tomato and has absolutely noth­ing to do with the fruit/vegetable.

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