I'm in my (as I have been for the last fortnight) room, in a shared flat which is so much better than being 31 and still living with parents. Although, I'm still 31, not much I can do about that, until I'm 32 atleast. Anyway.....catchup time.

The Harry Potter series is done and dusted. A great seven parter that always was intended to be a seven parter, tied up very very nicely although some parts of Deathly Hallows was just plain strange, still the book is published the author is dead. Not really of course, it's a phrase that means the published book is there and done. Any questions or answers the author give now is too late and should have been included in the final publication (please not a second edition!). The series should stand up alone at this point without no "interference" from the author, as any links/continuity or subplots that haven't been tied up is up to your own imagination. The trouble with author interviews is they'll admit to happy accidents and call them that, much better to leave well alone and work on the next volume. But where will JKR go from here? Possibly a cheap island in some tropical paradise, who knows. She doesn't need to write to put food on the table any more, but I'm sure there'll be something along in 2008.

For my week off work, I've been thinking about re-arranging the room to save me having to step over a wide lounge chair, but it's only a thought. Cooking for one person is a p.i.t.a though, anyone got tips on a weekly tight budget??

What else? Oh been reliving the GTA San Andreas experience. Some missions are damn annoying using pc controls and others are a lot easier, I guess it balances out over the course of the story.

I've been playing Eve online again over the last month or so, and it still relies heavily on teamwork, which is fine, if you're avialable at the time zone required, otherwise you'll hear about interesting stuff during the quiet time. I'm working on my combat skills which will enable me to field combat ships, the Eve Tournament 4 has happened and what a tournament it was. That's a question, cus I totally missed it, Band of Brother Alliance didn't make it four wins in a row though so that's news! I have watched a few movies on eve tv though, which would be interesting if you could make out the names/ship type and alliances/corps on the videos though. Although I'm not that into combat, I know it's a lot more exciting than watching the battles on Eve TV, although if you've never had the EVE experience before, I suggest you to try it out (when the servers are stable) and remember it's about speaking to people and working together, otherwise there's a very very steep learning wall and about 14 days of finding out what you actually enjoy.

It's one of the few (if only?) MMO's that has a full time doctor of economics employed to plumb the depths of the New Eden market and all that stuff. Should be exciting for everyone, be it market pvp'r or combat pvp'r, both rely on each other of course. Soon I hope to be able to do both - Although market PVP will always be tougher to survive in, when playing the markets, no one knows who's got buy/sell orders unless they buy/sell something to that character, and even then there's so many damn alt characters in the game it's not worth the hassle.

Anyway, that's about it for now. I guess I'm just waiting for the Terry Pratchett Book out sometime soon.