Woke up this morning at about 6am. Went through into the living room and found a dead bird in the middle of the living room.
Just think about that for a moment. A dead bird, in the middle of the room.
That's not normal, is it.
It couldn't have been there long, otherwise Bart would've been chewing on it. Well, assuming he actually knew what to do with it. He'll chase after the occasional moth, but we're talking about a cat who prefers bottle caps and scrunched up paper to play with, rather than catnip toys.
My best guess is that somehow it managed to get into the attic and found its way in through the hole in the living room ceiling, since my next best guess ends up turning into the start of a horror movie (if you've seen or read The Dark Half by Stephen King, you'll know where I'm going with this), and much as I would like to think otherwise, unless I've got some serious Mojo hidden within me, I'm just not really equipped to deal with Eldritch Cosmic Horrors here. Either that, or we're getting deeply into Bad Sign territory here, and I think I'm less well equipped to deal with those.
On a hopefully more cheerful note, I emptied my change jar the other day and found close on £40 in it. So I did the natural thing and bought myself a new 500gig external. Add my three externals and two internal hard drives together and I'm now part of the Terrabite Club. Apparently, this puts me well on the way to making the internet my bitch. Undecided on a name for the new arrival - at least one person tells me I should name it Toph, but I dunno yet. Already downloaded Adobe Premiere and a new set of Evangelion episodes to celebrate - I'm determined to actually do something with them this time. Here's hoping they don't have hard-encoded subtitles.
Also, anyone know a good place to buy posters online or, better yet, get your own printed up for a reasonable price? Been meaning to get some more for my room for a while, but never actually done anything about it. And you know me, when I'm in the mood to do something, my focus on it makes Bill Door's scythe look as sharp as a donut.
Also happy belated birthday to
icysarcasm and
scorpy. And you thought I'd forgotten, silly Lindsay...
Edit: and Persona 3 FES has been announced for a European release in October. Numfar! Do the Dance of Joy!