Random Notes

I ordered the Nook last week and it won't be here until February, but that hasn't stopped me from buying a few books to read on it when it arrives. I'm officially calling a halt so I don't break my budget in advance. I've mostly been buying from the "Under $5" category, but that adds up.

So far I've bought The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Anita Blake #1: Guilty Pleasures, Watchers, The Running Man, Way of the Wolf: Vampire Earth #1, and Ghost Walk. That should hold me awhile.

I saw they also have just about everything Louis L'Amour has ever written, which is handy. I'm not a fan of westerns in general, but I've always liked his stuff.

The machine can't get here fast enough.

Later...

In other news, the maintenance guys were trying to do some electrical work in the apartment above and didn't realize they'd knocked mine out. It must've been later in the evening because yesterday's episode of X-Play was on my DVR. It took them awhile to find the problem and fix it, but they brought an extension cord so I could get the fridge running again while they solved it.

I didn't have a lot of time to play Dragon Age, but I made another run at the Brood Mother. I almost got her this time. I kept my AoE spells going on her while my party focused on destroying her tentacles and her summoned mobs. The rest of my party died, but I had her health down to about 5% -- enough for another AoE spell to whittle her to death -- when she got in a good hit that finished me off.