The Weekend Update
This last weekend was a really enjoyable one. Friday night was a chance to catch up on some quality relationship time after Paul has spent the last few days of the week working down in Cape Town.
My most recent Take 2 order of DVDs had finally arrived (including 13th Warrior, and a Terminator 2/Total Recall Special Edition 2-for-1 combo) so we started watching Total Recall while gorging on Scooter’s Pizza. It had been one helluva week though and we ended up having a very early night.
Saturday morning was exceptionally lazy. After sleeping late, we played our only bit of World of WarCraft for the weekend. I managed to level my female Orc hunter up twice, to Level 10. Next playing session I’m contemplating taking up the complementary Skinning and Leatherworking professions. And I must be close now to getting my hunter’s pet.
Not that we’ll be doing any playing this coming weekend – because we’re escaping to a cottage in the Drakensberg mountains. Hooray!
Anyway, on Saturday afternoon we joined Warren and Kate for a game of tennis. Perhaps the emphasis should be on the “game” part as opposed to “tennis” part though, seeing as we mostly spent the time simply trying to return services to each other.
In the evening we were up at Tim’s, in Hillcrest, to try out his new boardgame purchase – Puerto Rico, the #1 rated game at Boardgame Geek. What a truly awesome, strategic game. Within 20 minutes of the first game we had picked up the playing dynamics, and clocking up victory points. With 2 games and a break for Bimbo’s take away, we only ended up finishing around midnight.
Sunday was a combination of Comrades Marathon, Father’s Day and Paul’s mom’s birthday. We spent most of the day at Paul’s place preparing a big family braai, so we weren’t on the roadside this year, cheering on the mad runners. Every so often we’d glance at the TV, and although we didn’t see it, my uncle and a woman from work both survived their knee injuries and made it within the last half hour.
We did however (presumably) see the race’s single casualty – an unconscious man carried across the finishing line by 4 other runners. He was literally grey. Paramedics attempted to take his pulse. He was loaded onto the stretcher. And then no more TV coverage. I’ve never seen anything like that on South African TV before. Talk about life-or-death drama.
Paul and I rounded off the weekend watching last week’s episode of Rome Season 2 (vastly superior to Season 1) and finished off Total Recall. Director Paul Verhoeven has done some fantastic ultra-violent, almost comic-y, sci-fi films – Total Recall, Robocop and Starship Troopers. It was certainly a fun retro viewing experience. I haven’t seen the Arnie flick in years. Mostly it was amusing to see how visions of the future have changed in a decade and a half. The futuristic cars, in particular, were hideous and blocky. What a difference between Total Recall’s claustrophobic, grungy future (mostly captured on grey sets) and the expansive, hyper-stylised world of Minority Report.
So, yeah, a very enjoyable weekend. Pity the Saturday public holiday didn’t give us a 3-day break. That would have been even better…
My most recent Take 2 order of DVDs had finally arrived (including 13th Warrior, and a Terminator 2/Total Recall Special Edition 2-for-1 combo) so we started watching Total Recall while gorging on Scooter’s Pizza. It had been one helluva week though and we ended up having a very early night.
Saturday morning was exceptionally lazy. After sleeping late, we played our only bit of World of WarCraft for the weekend. I managed to level my female Orc hunter up twice, to Level 10. Next playing session I’m contemplating taking up the complementary Skinning and Leatherworking professions. And I must be close now to getting my hunter’s pet.
Not that we’ll be doing any playing this coming weekend – because we’re escaping to a cottage in the Drakensberg mountains. Hooray!
Anyway, on Saturday afternoon we joined Warren and Kate for a game of tennis. Perhaps the emphasis should be on the “game” part as opposed to “tennis” part though, seeing as we mostly spent the time simply trying to return services to each other.
In the evening we were up at Tim’s, in Hillcrest, to try out his new boardgame purchase – Puerto Rico, the #1 rated game at Boardgame Geek. What a truly awesome, strategic game. Within 20 minutes of the first game we had picked up the playing dynamics, and clocking up victory points. With 2 games and a break for Bimbo’s take away, we only ended up finishing around midnight.
Sunday was a combination of Comrades Marathon, Father’s Day and Paul’s mom’s birthday. We spent most of the day at Paul’s place preparing a big family braai, so we weren’t on the roadside this year, cheering on the mad runners. Every so often we’d glance at the TV, and although we didn’t see it, my uncle and a woman from work both survived their knee injuries and made it within the last half hour.
We did however (presumably) see the race’s single casualty – an unconscious man carried across the finishing line by 4 other runners. He was literally grey. Paramedics attempted to take his pulse. He was loaded onto the stretcher. And then no more TV coverage. I’ve never seen anything like that on South African TV before. Talk about life-or-death drama.
Paul and I rounded off the weekend watching last week’s episode of Rome Season 2 (vastly superior to Season 1) and finished off Total Recall. Director Paul Verhoeven has done some fantastic ultra-violent, almost comic-y, sci-fi films – Total Recall, Robocop and Starship Troopers. It was certainly a fun retro viewing experience. I haven’t seen the Arnie flick in years. Mostly it was amusing to see how visions of the future have changed in a decade and a half. The futuristic cars, in particular, were hideous and blocky. What a difference between Total Recall’s claustrophobic, grungy future (mostly captured on grey sets) and the expansive, hyper-stylised world of Minority Report.
So, yeah, a very enjoyable weekend. Pity the Saturday public holiday didn’t give us a 3-day break. That would have been even better…
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