Well I confess last week was ultra crappy, from the audio description headsets not working correctlyy at the cinema, to the guide dogs organisation deciding to be absolute Nazis (they seem to be going quite wrong these days), to Mrs. DArk being ill, and me still! having the cold and chest inffection I've had since Christmas (which also means I've had to stop lifting my weights and running with the zombies, which is down right annoying.

We did get to see an awesome  performance of Vaughn williams sixth symphony, which (to say how upbeat Vaughn williams usually is), was down right dark and disturbing! then again the thinking was that being written after the second world war it was stirring his PTSD from the first. Either way, something I've not heard before and something I really liked, indeed somehting I can recommend for any fans of intensively moody film score despite being written in 1948.
The general grimness did sort of suit last weeks mood though.

Hopefully this week will be better, even though mrs. Dark is starting radio and chemo therapy today, which probably means sitting around in hospital for a while (I'm planning to play through choice of zombies).
I also am going to have to almost completely fix my laptop from scratch, since it had a %100 crash a couple of weeks ago and needed to be completely blanked. Fortunately there wasn't anything on there that isn't backed up in several other places, but having to reinstall NVDA chrome, and thunderbird, get office working again and put all my documents back, not to mention  will be quite a pest, and very annoying since I'd like to go on with dreamy train and tempist season, and maybe play some more shadowrine too.

As to fantasy, I agree that messing with the world is a good thing Dark eagle, though I am less a fan of books in the absolute modern day   throw vampires, faeries etc into modern society, and prefer authors to create their own worlds, magic and  creatures with whatever level of tech. Indeed, this is one thing I've liked in a lot of brandon sanderson's writing, especially in the stormlight archive.

I've heard of the laundry files, but not read any of them, ditto with the iron druid chronicles,t hough I confess the iron druid ones I was slightly putoff by descriptions I've seen just talking about how awesome the main character is, since I'm really not a fan of super heroes or books where the protagonists can just get by on the awesome powers the author gives them, (I really did not enjoy Richard Cadry's sandman slim series).

still, I probably ought to give them a try before making up my own mind.

@Dark:
The main character of the Laundry files doesn't have any special powers, at least as far as I have observed.

What he does have, however is the training provided by the organization for which he works for, knowledge of computers, and support of the organization which I've just mentioned.

Considering that this is the first series after dresden files I am reading which takes place in the modern times, there are know vampires faeries or any such creatures. what it does have, are the eldretch abominations.

I also have to say that it is nice to see the main character not taking a beating all the time, like Harry Dresden did.

@Dark, the only reason I read them was for the dog. lol. I normally don't like tech in fantasy books, preferring the medieval setting, or at the latest, 1800s style. I've been trying to get into the Sanderson books, and I just keep forgetting to read them, but they aren't bad, just not necessarily what I'm looking for. I'm great at describing, i know. lol.

As for my month, it hasn't been terrible. I'm not feeling the best, but its not as bad as it usually is. I've also gotten my discord server set up, so I'm happy about that. And I've figured out virtual audio cable, something I've been struggling with for years now. I'm considering getting into audiogame streaming, even though its a small community. Hopefully I'll be able to take care of some financial things to be able to go back to college soon.

Well. January has been great for me so far. Finally back in school again after almost 18 months at home and i am really enjoying it so far. I haven't felt this happy in a long long time I must say.

Dark. Once again i am really sorry for you and your laidy, all though i suppose it is getting pritty tiresm to hear that all the time.

@Sovs, thanks, sympathy is appreciated rather than boring, since I freely admit, both due to my lady's cancer and due to other crappy things which just seem to keep happening , EG being chucked out of the young person's cancer support group because my lady is slightly over the age limit, when the only other support groups are for much older people, things are a bit dire at the moment for both my lady and I, indeed the hollywood cliche "At least we have each other" is rather ironically true at the second, given we don't have much else going for us.

Still, I'll try not to be too dismal online if I can help it, indeed this weekend I'll be opening my very belated birthday present and starting a complete watch of the entire game of thrones on dvd, and as we all know, there's nothing that cheers you up quite as much as watching war, death, blood and mayhem, or at least a complex story with likable characters which just happens to be full of war, death, blood and mayhem .

@Dark, probably not the style you two are looking for, but have you looked into any online support groups?

@Sovs, in fairness game of thrones is actually just a good story, though good as the series is, as with most things you should read the books first.

As regards online support groups, I'm guessing those are out there, but that's not really what either of us is looking for at the moment, since what we really need is some sort of contact with people who aren't my parents or each other in real time, heck, we've been needing that even before the cancer, given we're that rare thing, two people past thirty five with actual working brains who aren't obsessed either with our contributions to population increase, or spending time in crowded, noisy, spaces to imbibe neuro-toxins.

To an extent this is due to the area we live in, since we were forced to move back in September of 17, and we've ended up in a pretty small town full of much older people next to a huge, less than friendly crime ridden city (the one I grew up in and wanted  to move away from), to an extent it's our age, one good friend of mine in London and her husband are in exactly the same fix (shame they don't live closer), and to an extent it's all part of the jolly fun business of being visually impared in Britain.
Interestingly enough, my lady who grew up in America and lived in Germany for 17 years, as well as toured Europe, actually is of the opinion Britain has the most backward attitudes towards blind people she's noticed. Not in terms of legal equality, but in terms of people just being plane standoffish, or regarding blind people as a different species, or all those lovely little, "sorry we don't have room for you/you weren't good enough, which has nothing to do with prejudiced honest gov" occasions which I'm sure every blind person has experienced at some point, which seem a little more prevalent in Britain than elsewhere, at least according to my lady.

Again, at least we have each other, which is a good thing.

Okay, I'll stop complaining now .

@sovs, I don't know if there is a danish audiotrack for the dialogue, in game of thrones, let alone the audio description, but according to the song of ice and fire wiki, the books were translated into danish in 2011 under the title: "Kampen om tronen "

So if you fancied reading the books, (which I'd recommend before watching the series anyway), hopefully that would be possible.

@Dark, Yeah, that's what I figured, thought I would at least put it out there. Either way, good luck to both of you. Hopefully you'll find something, or someone who can help you start your own.

@dark eagle
When you say football, do you then mean american football or just football?
Cause i love football as well.
American football can just piss off lol.

@Dark:
I completely agree. but the thing is, I can't stay in a prolonged contact with people either, it just exhausts me. once in a while, let's say a month or so, is fine. but I can't stay with people for
everyday, it just tests my patience.

@Sovs:
Dark is right, though I have never watched the american football, but I honestly doubt that the channels would air something like that here, I heard that it is very violent.

Not that I am opposed to violent things at television, but football doesn't strike me as something where people would fight with each other. if I do want to see a fight, I would watch UFC. if I do want to watch a choreographed fight, I would watch pro wrestling. but not football.