Keith Lawrence (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} kludge) wrote,@ 2009-01-12 10:41:00 |
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Coooold - actually, not all that cold.
It snowed on Saturday, so I faffed about a bit and watched Battlestar Galactica while other people did the vital job of warming the roads up for me. Then I drove to Southampton via Staines, picking up Julie on the way - on the basis that I'd have someone to mutter at if there was a water pipe problem in the flat as well. Fortunately, not! Unfortunately, the guy upstairs had had one: the waste pipe from his kitchen had somehow managed to freeze solid, and when he had tried to do some washing that morning the washing machine's first lot of water had hit the blockage and backed up, flooding his kitchen (a little), and our bathroom (a little - it's directly under his kitchen). I would have been pissed off if I hadn't been fearing worse, but I was actually pretty pleased, since a) it wasn't as bad as the Nerdvana leak (which itself was pretty benign, all things considered), and b) I didn't have to do anything about it (Ken upstairs was fixing the fault himself, and Julie offered to sort out the bathroom floor while I packed things in the kitchen).
Spent a lazy Sunday watching BSG and idling packing boxes full of books (I have a three-target system now, I'm splitting my books into a Donate pile, a Store pile, and a Dublin pile). Paul, who has been lending me his BSG discs (convenient, since I'd seen series 1, so he can watch one series while I watch another), seems to have been bitten badly by the weird way the series has been packaged in this country. He bought series 1-4 on a whim, then sat down to watch series 1 over a weekend only to be greeted by "previously, on battlestar galactica" - not realising that there was the mini-series before series 1. He dropped off series 3 and 4 with me on Friday, together with the film ("Razor") and an instruction that it came between the two series. It does (not chronologically, but in the order you're supposed to watch them). I can tell this, because the series 4 boxset he has actually includes it - and it's not *strictly* series 4, because it's only 10 episodes. In America they've had a break, and are just now starting to show the rest of series 4. I assume in Britain it'll be marketed as series 5. Could people not just make their mind up or something?
It snowed on Saturday, so I faffed about a bit and watched Battlestar Galactica while other people did the vital job of warming the roads up for me. Then I drove to Southampton via Staines, picking up Julie on the way - on the basis that I'd have someone to mutter at if there was a water pipe problem in the flat as well. Fortunately, not! Unfortunately, the guy upstairs had had one: the waste pipe from his kitchen had somehow managed to freeze solid, and when he had tried to do some washing that morning the washing machine's first lot of water had hit the blockage and backed up, flooding his kitchen (a little), and our bathroom (a little - it's directly under his kitchen). I would have been pissed off if I hadn't been fearing worse, but I was actually pretty pleased, since a) it wasn't as bad as the Nerdvana leak (which itself was pretty benign, all things considered), and b) I didn't have to do anything about it (Ken upstairs was fixing the fault himself, and Julie offered to sort out the bathroom floor while I packed things in the kitchen).
Spent a lazy Sunday watching BSG and idling packing boxes full of books (I have a three-target system now, I'm splitting my books into a Donate pile, a Store pile, and a Dublin pile). Paul, who has been lending me his BSG discs (convenient, since I'd seen series 1, so he can watch one series while I watch another), seems to have been bitten badly by the weird way the series has been packaged in this country. He bought series 1-4 on a whim, then sat down to watch series 1 over a weekend only to be greeted by "previously, on battlestar galactica" - not realising that there was the mini-series before series 1. He dropped off series 3 and 4 with me on Friday, together with the film ("Razor") and an instruction that it came between the two series. It does (not chronologically, but in the order you're supposed to watch them). I can tell this, because the series 4 boxset he has actually includes it - and it's not *strictly* series 4, because it's only 10 episodes. In America they've had a break, and are just now starting to show the rest of series 4. I assume in Britain it'll be marketed as series 5. Could people not just make their mind up or something?
