Now it's get annoying

Now when I was on Holiday the snow was fun as mainly I didn't have to go anywhere. Now I'm back at work the snow is getting annoying. Especially this evening when the trip home took nearly and hour and a quarter as it started snowing again. I'm not getting much sympathy from Grumpy however as it considers it payback for when we were younger and he used to moan about snow when he went to work and we used to tell him he should enjoy it rather then hate it.

Yeah that's come back to bite me hasn't it.

Work was good if rather busy once again. The theme for this week seems to be staying firmly as 'catch up'. Still I should be able to get everything finished by tomorrow which is always best as you should always have your desk clear as it were going into the weekend.

With the death of Batman in the DC comics ( yeah that will last :-) one of the new characters their advancing to 'replace' him is Batwoman. Of course as I'm sure you've already guessed this is a particurly mainstream media story so there is a 'twist' to this as summed up by one news paper headline " Holy Smoke Batman! What's happened to the missius?" Yes Batwoman is making her comeback as a openly gay superhero or as DC Comics put it "a lesbian socialite by night and a crime-fighter by later in the night". I'm sure that sentence sounded fine in their heads.

Of course the danger wth characters in comics and sci-fi/fantasy when they make a big issue about the character sexuality (especially in the media) is that the whole subject can completly overshadow the character themselves let alone the story. For example, Captain Jack out of torchwood in the first series watching him seemingly either flirt with or snog anyone in sight got very wearing, it was like " Yes, we get it, he's bi. Can we move on with the story please?" Fortunatly they seemed to tone it down a bit for the 2nd series and although his sexuality it still a part of his character it not the only thing to define the character. Another example is a series of books that I used to read where the lead character was very interesting but midway through the series the author started 'sexing things up' for want of a better term and the story started to suffer in fact it's the only series that I've ever given up on. I have heard that the later stories are quite 'graphic' if you know what I mean.

I did hear that the author bases the lead character on herself. Which if true means I think she needs to get out more.

Or less.

Also in the news today was the story that a Commications satellitle was struck by a defunct Russian Satellitle. Which did also lead to the most pointless cgi animation of the day which was intended to show people how the two collided. The animation showed two satellitles rushing towards each other and then hitting each other. Because of course we couldn't imagine ourselves what a collision looks like with out computer animation could we :-)

anyway,

Later folks!