Ooops been kinda busy!

Well actually no point lying about it, i've been slacking mostly. Kicking back playing some DAoC, WoW and some Silent Hunter 3. On the occassions i've managed to get some time off of lucking after Mrs Aven and her 30 week bump!
Was watching a few episodes of CSI series 6 tonight and the little blighter was kicking and rolling like a barrel going over niagra! Previously it was only ever a small movement or slight bump, but today is the first time i've actually been able to feel and see what was going on. I get the feeling the bump really isn't keen on CSI but is willing to put up with it if we want to watch it, but only after making it's distaste known.
I'm really looking forwards to meeting the little monster and showing it who's the boss! (no doubt it'll have mastered me in under an hour and i will be forever it's bitch) but that's not the point.
It's becoming quite clear now that working full days is really taking it out of Mrs Aven, we're lucky if she lasts past 9pm in an evening. and to make things worse she's not taking a break and whenever she's off work she spends most of the day on the laptop working from home. Somethings gotta give soon, and i'm pretty sure that'll be Maternity leave starting early (though she wont admit she's thinking about that) Not to worry, as we enter the final 12 week home things a really set to hit the fan! :)
Quick shout out to Ryan - for telling me he was playing a rugby match in sunderland this weekend and my apologies for not turning up despite the 5 minute walk to get to ashbrooke (i know, i'm a lazy bastard!) sorry mate! :( I promise i'll come watch you play sooooon!!
And a big! hooooyaaaaa to my boys (and girls) in Majestic Disturbance! It's been awesome playing with you all again, i'm really enjoying Lamorak! being back in Hib is like being home again! See you on the battlefields!

VM & Sky, DAoC and Aliens!!!!

Well i've really enjoyed watching the big fuss over Virgin Media Group and Sky these last few days. In absolute honesty i was of the belief that a last minute deal would be reached between the two companies. I believed that wholeheartedly until 11:59 last night. I wasn't expecting the signal to just drop. I have to be honest, i didn't watch it until midnight, so i don't know what time they pulled it but when i turned on Sky One this morning i was expecting more than a blank screen. However! I'm happy to see VM stand up to Sky and refuse to pay an unreasonable amount. I have no intention of returning to Sky (Despite my displeasure with the 4mb broadband) i'm quite happy with them. The only thing that really angers me is the fact the VoD (View on Demand) content they keep harping on about, it's either Pay Per View meaning that because i no longer get sky i have to pay a fee to watch each episode! or It's old content that i've seen before.
I'm going to phone Virgin at some point next week once the fuss has died down to see if i can get V+ installed to compensate for the loss of these channels. Reason being we've still got a sky dish and Sky offered me a Sky+ box for nothing provided i paid the £10 a month for the services. (as opposed to a £75 installation + £10p.m

DAoC wise, i've returned to the classic server cluster tonight, i was against returning to the game prior to 1.88 being released as i'm primarily an Archer and at present we're the weakest classes on the table! However a friend of mine told me he'd returned and as WoW was getting repetitive without my duo partner to level with i've decided to go back to Gareth for a while. At present i'm not sure this is the best thing to do BUT i'm back playing Hib for a while so i've started a new toon (Bubblecow) on Lamorak and will be trying to get levelled up a little whenever i'm not playing something else.

And finally tonight i spotted Aliens (James Cameron's finest film imho) on Ch4, i thought this would just be a highly edited and disapointing version, however much to my suprise they actually showed the full Special Edition version (possibly slightly edited but i didn't spot it!) Kudos to Ch4, i'd grown accustomed to having to dig out the old VHS out whenever i wanted to watch this and was grateful to be able just to settle down infront of the TV and enjoy an awesome Sci-fi film. Well done C4!

Adios!

Warhammer Online & PoE2

Well had an interesting day today, The in-laws were visting to do some work on the house and were quite happilly eating us out of house and home all day. Not that it bothers either of us, we're grateful for their knowledge and labour to help with fitting the new central heating. ;)

I spent some of today playing the Point Of Existence BF2 mod that was released on friday with my ~SiR~ clan mates on the Cannabis City server. I haev to admit i was impressed with the mod, but after a few hours i can be certain that i far prefer vanilla BF2. PoE is good, but preferably (for me) in small doses.

After messing around on PoE i went and joined my guildmates on DAoC for a few hours of hunting, The Hibs had truly buggered up the Alb frontier overnight and were pushing to take our relics, so a CTA was called and we helped resecure the homelands. Afterwhich i spent a few hours (unsuccessful for the most part) hunting targets around Beno, Bled and DF before finally getting frustrated and logging for the night.
Before hitting the sack i decided to take a look at what Mythic has been cooking up with Warhammer and after watching the trailer i find myself eagerly looking forwards to this new MMO. Though i suspect it's likely to be late 2007 or even 2008 before it's actually launched, it is looking bloody fantastic! The trailers appear to be FMV rather than actual game screenshots, but i dont mind, i've seen some sneaks from E3 that were uploaded to youtube and i hope this game lives up to expectations. Mythic did well with DAoC's RvR system and i hope to see more from Warhammer.

I'll update this with hyperlinks tomorrow, but for now i really need to get some sleep (2am!!)

g'night!

Grey hunting..

Well i spent a lot of Saturday evening hunting players in Darkness Falls. Much of it using my scout.
I've spent years playing DAoC and up until today i've NEVER questioned the fact that a level 50 player can sweep in and kill a new player just for shits and giggles. The lowbie doesn't even stand the slightest chance. Frankly having played the game so long i've been on the receiving end of "grey" hunting more times than i can possibly remember. I've always treated it as a "well i was in an RvR zone, it was bound to happen". But today having spent four hours making a few lowbies lives miserable i finally got to see the side of the hunter.
In honesty i always thought it'd be great getting just desserts on all of those bastards that did it to me. But something didn't quite sit right with me. I had an awful distaste for what i was doing. So much so i even posted a thread on the "Critshot" forum To be honest it's starting to look like most people try to leave the lowbies alone and i very much believe i will in future also.
Although on that note i just found out a few minutes ago that killing the lowbies still counts towards your kill statistics, so despite not earning realm points for killing them you can still earn the special titles for deathblows or solo kills. Pathetic.. yes, i think so..