betterer

Getting better. Temperature is down and staying down and although the leg is still as puffy as a massive sausage and pink it’s nowhere near as painful. The only way to get it down further is to lose weight, although it’s not fat in the leg, it’s fluid. And yes, I’ve been to the doctor and he prodded it and didn’t seem at all bothered. “Will try you out on some tablets next month,” he said. Considering that I showed my first symptom about 8 years ago, with a swollen ankle and they did nothing about it then, I hold out no hope of them caring much now. Obviously a leg the size of a walrus isn’t a big concern!

Not that this is a walrus, but it does tickle me and if I reincarnate, I dare say some bastard god will get a kick out of doing this to me. But it does make me laugh every time I see it. I pray that he’s actually as snug as a bug under all that fur and blubber.

Got a couple of nice eggses. A Thunder one and a Bronze Tinsel. Still trying to get a successful breed with my silver Tinsel. Been trying to get a Thunder egg bred for months now.

Gaming Blather

As you may know, been playing Deus Ex Human Revolution these past few days, for some reason it’s insanely cheap on Ebay and suchlike places so I got a new copy a lot earlier than I normally would, and it will keep me going until Assassin’s Creed: Please don’t go, Ezio comes along next month.

I’m not great at DE: HR, but that won’t surprise anyone. I may be a fervent gamer, but I’m not terribly good at them. I tend to get spotted a LOT, even though I hide behind every box and wall. Probably my big english Arse sticking out, those walls aren’t very big.

However, I made a complete TIT of myself on the second level. One of the quests involved getting into the Police Station (when I really wasn’t flavour of the month over there) and getting unauthorised access to the Morgue to inspect a corpse. (It’s complicated) Soooo—I assumed, as I wasn’t exactly Man of the Month with the Detroit PD, the only way to get in and get the job done was to break in, either through the sewers or the through the roof access. I went through the roof access, because – as I needed to get to the basement, I didn’t want to make it TOO BLOODY EASY for myself did I? It involved several real time hours of creeping along like a tortoise (and still getting spotted and having to hide in wall-ducts for ages) and eventually I got down to the lobby which was crawling with cops.  As far as I can see this section was impossible via stealth so I just legged it to the toilets, luckily found another wall duct and hid there until they stopped searching. Luckily, they are stupid and if they see you go into a duct they forget where you went.

After that I crept across the hall to an office where I found (to my surprise) that the cop in the chair had a “Talk To” option…So I talked to him. Turns out he was my ex-partner, and after a little bit of a chin wag where I mopped his girly tears and told him he was a Decent Guy even though he shot a Kid, he allowed me access to the morgue, and no-one shot at me any more.

It was at this point that I realised he was the fucking Desk Sargent and I could have WALKED IN THE FRONT DOOR AND JUST SPOKEN TO HIM.

Sometimes, the stealthy path is not the easiest.

And MAY I JUST SAY “ARGH??”