No one is ever going to love you more than I do.

Life continues, more or less according to plan. I love saying that, even if at best of times, the plan for my life is sort of a general feeling in a particular direction, but regardless, things are going well. Life at Twisted Toast is enjoyable and stressful, as I knew it would be, filled with very good creative energy (and tension, at times) and good times. I am looking forward to getting really stuck in in May, but we've done well for the past two weeks - we've launched our website and we've signed our first client, so we're off to a good start.

I'm finding it easier than I thought to deal with the lack of internet at home. Tomorrow will be a month since I had uncapped DSL at home, and with my DSL installation only scheduled for 3 May, I've got another two weeks without it, but it doesn't particularly terrify me. I realise that's somewhat sad, but I really do consider myself a denizen of the internet, and in the past, not having access to uncapped, high-speed internet has been an exercise in agony and frustration for me. I've made do the past month by doing normal stuff, like going out, and the like, which has been actually a lot of fun.

Fortunately, we've had uncapped internet at work which I've abused (outside business hours, naturally) to download some stuff. I finally got around to watching Arrested Development (I was harassed into submission by a new friend to do so) and I feel ashamed that I never watched it sooner. It's genius in a way that defies comprehension. People so much cleverer and funnier than me poured so much effort into it, it's a show that is both ridiculously entertaining and in a way, humbling, to watch. I've also started watching It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and I'm finding it pretty enjoyable as well. I'm also slowly but surely making my way through Downton Abbey, and despite it being slower than a Home Affairs queue, I'm getting into it. I'm generally not a fan of period pieces, or slow dramas (Downton is both) but I'm getting caught up in the language and style of the whole thing. I could totally be an English gentleman, with a valet and butler and footmen to wait on me.

I've also gotten stuck into Sim City 4k whenever I've had some free time (of which there's been precious little of late) but frustrations regarding commute times in larger cities has once again stymied me. There's this whole subculture of Sim City players who delve into the details of creating mass transit systems for large metropolises in minute detail, and it's just a layer of complexity that's too much for me.

Beyond that in terms of gaming, it's been somewhat quiet. I've finished Dragon Age 2 on two characters now, first a mage, then a rogue, and now I'm in the process of playing through as a 2H warrior. The last has been the most fun, just because of the ridiculous cleave damage when partnered with another 2H warrior like Fenris. Add Isabella into the mix, and Anders as a buffbot, and my party is effectively a three-man whirling dervish of blades that don't so much kill street hoodlums as much as resemble a highly efficient sausage machine, turning human flesh into neat piles of minced meat, organs and bones. It's all very fun. Speaking of Anders, there are very few characters in film, TV or games that I've detested as much. Such a fucking whiny, annoying little child of a mage. "Ooh, the mages are being oppressed by the Templars again!" Fucking hell, Bioware really sucks for making him the only viable support caster in the game, so you have to drag him along all the time. Really grates me.

I've also installed Crysis 2 and I've given it a whirl. It's not really game-changing in terms of actual gameplay, but it is kinda fun. The stealth capabilities are in my opinion, for the single player at least, highly overpowered, and I totally cheese the ability to destealth, fire off a single headshot, and then restealth with no penalty. Still, it's kinda fun, and I'm enjoying getting into a shooter again. The most impressive thing about it is without a doubt the graphics. Even on the lowest settings, it absolutely blows me away. When the game started, I didn't realise I was ingame - I thought I was looking at a pre-rendered cinematic until I actually had to do something, and I was like, "Wait, what now? Is this ingame? Holy shit!" True story.

Right, so enough about games. Back to TV series! I've just finished downloading the first episode of Game of Thrones and I absolutely cannot wait to get home tonight, get gym out of the way and come home and watch it. I'm going to make popcorn and everything. If I can look forward to the birth of my first child as much as I've been looking forward to the TV debut of this show I will consider myself a great parent. I'm seriously so psyched, and I suspect that if this show is a disappointment I will have to seriously re-evaluate my approach. On a somewhat related note, the rest of tonight will be spent playing Portal 2 with my homie Steyn. Busy night.

All in all, life is good. The move to JHB has been everything I had hoped for, and then some, with some surprises in ways I had not expected (let's just say there's substantial (and good) differences between Pretorian girls and girls from Jo'burg). Having a 5 minute commute is glorious, fireplaces are win, space is good, and a turntable was a fucking hipster but fun buy.

I'm headed off to the Drakensberg this coming weekend, and I'm looking forward to it. There may be pictures.