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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