Warming up

Well the icey weather seems to have taken a break today as the temperatures got all the way up to 5 degrees!

We spent longer then usual in town as Grumpy had a whole list of things he needed to get for his Holiday, so he had to visit a lot of different shops. Why he couldn't have done this yesterday rather then waiting for today when it was a lot busier I have no idea.

I saw something quite amusing today. Theres a TV series called the Sarah Connor Chronicles which is basically a TV spin off from the Terminator series. I saw that the plot of the latest episode involved a terminator being sent back in time to assasinate the governor of Califonia! I bet which ever writer came up with that idea thought they were oh so clever :-)

I've also just finished reading a series of books by John Birmingham which is a 'alternate' history. An experiement by a ship accompanying a UN naval task force in 2030 goes horribily wrong and the task force is thrown through a dimensional wormhole not only to an 'alternate earth' but back to 1942 in that Earths history arriving during the battle for Midway. With no way to get home chaos ensures as all sides scramble to seize the new technology and with knowledge of what 'will happen' events quickly take radical turns. The Russians withdraw from the war and start to make their own plans, Japan invades Australia before invading Hawai and Germany attempts an Invasion of the Uk. Although the bulk of the ships end up in allied hands several are scattered across the world, with the Germany seizing one, the Russians another and the Japan find a third fused into a mountainside in the phillipines. This leads to a world of mongrel technology borne years early and a race that all sides are now capable to winning. The race for the atom bomb! Seriousily this series of books is very cool indeed.

Church tomorrow. We're going to be getting a new member of the bishopric very soon as Brother Scott is about to move back to the USA, so it will be interesting to see what happens there.

Anyway thats all for now.

Later folks!