Well, this week Halo 3 dropped, and for the video game community, that’s fairly significant. Progress pretty much ground to a halt at work as almost everyone dropped what they were doing to be at home (or at work, with the big-ass TV) to play Halo 3. I hadn’t quite clued into this fact, so when I arrived at the office on Tuesday and found very little by way of things for me to keep working on, I ended up watching James play Halo for quite a while, then played it myself for the rest of the day… consequently making me a bit late home as well. Oops! All in all, I rather liked Halo 3 – it wasn’t that much of a leap from Halo 2, just with some nicer graphics and the next chapter of the storyline, which is barely contained in the games. It doesn’t really push the Xbox 360 to any particular limits, but the multiplayer lobbying is done well and after all, it’s one of the biggest video game communities (or followings, I guess) in the history of… well, ever. There will be games with better graphics, there will be games with better gameplay… there will even be games with more variation in the multiplayer maps (come on, there aren’t that many to play). But Halo is Halo and has more than a cult following. Enough to spawn books, graphic novels and what appears to be a live action movie. Crazy, huh?

This week I also had a sick day, during which I watched the pilot episodes for Journeyman and Robin Hood. Ok, I’m more than a little behind the ball with the Robin Hood one, but hey, it’s good fun and I suspect I’ll end up buying the DVDs because I was able to download the first few episodes to see if I liked it. Bah to those that say it robs from the media companies – if I wasn’t able to see shows I missed on TV, I wouldn’t watch as many shows, which consequently means I wouldn’t buy nearly as many DVDs an other merchandise that feeds their corporate machine. Not onlyh that, but I’m one of those people that pushes shows I like onto my friends and family, so they’ll watch it, and then end up getting copies of the DVDs themselves. Although since Journeyman is being aired now, we’ll have to wait a bit before that comes out on DVD. It’s good to see Kevin McKidd in Journeyman as well, he was brilliant in Rome.

On Friday Anastasia and I went out to a Monty Python tribute being put on by the local theatre troupe with Lea, Jess, Cherona and a friend of Cherona’s whose name I have momentarily forgotten. I’d like to think that I’d remember later, but I’m pretty terrible with names. Faces yes, names no. Anyway, the Monty Python thing was brilliant! They opened with”Sit on my face and tell me that you love me”, and it all kind of went gloriously down hill from there. Plenty of skits from your favourite Monty Python films, all of which I adored. A good number of women in the cast, which reversed the gender of some of the roles in some of the skits, but it didn’t matter and was all one superbly. The later part of the skits involved a rather hefty amount of sexual innuendo (or blatant references), and there were a couple of families who left with their small children at that point. All in all a quality production and I’ll certainly have to keep an eye on them to see if there’s anything else they o that would be worth going to see while I’m in Gainesville.

This weekend was also another absolutely mad football weekend. Anastasia was in one of the sections a bit closer to the front, so we made up a couple of signs for her to take. My “neat handwriting” won me the dubious honour of doing all the letter outlining, so it would appear that typography pays off…. ^_~

Sadly the Gators lost, to Auburn, at home. This is apparently something of a travesty, although I’m still learning which rivalries I really need to pay attention to.

Other than that, it was bits and pieces of work and errands all week, watching anime with Anastasia and Lea and general household stuff like laundry and cleaning and so on. All in all, despite being sick, it was a good week.