"A llama! A llama! My kingdom for a llama!"

Back to work, and back to the sweet opium of the daily grind. Well, 'daily grind' as in 'a creative and fulfilling job in an exciting and energetic industry'. It's not as though I shave llamas for a living. Although, if you're a llama shaver, more power to you. Someone's got to shave them llamas.

I actually think you shear llamas, not shave 'em. But that's not really the issue, now is it?

The shock of getting up early this morning was almost too great for my body to handle. When the alarm clock rang at a quarter to eight, it took a while before I managed to switch it off. I just couldn't understand where the horrible buzzing noise was coming from. And when I finally did recognise that horrible buzzing noise, I couldn't find the right button to press. I stayed another half hour in bed before stumbling into the bathroom. When you're used to getting up only when you absolutely feel like it - which is usually after eleven, when your body says "enough with the sleeping, let's rock'n'roll!" - it's incredibly hard to force yourself up and out, especially when it's below absolute zero outside.

Below absolute zero. No lie.

But manage I did. And now I'm at work, and that's fine and dandy.

A few days ago, I posted a message about how a Google-search for 'voyage to mars' brings up my journal, and here's Leanne with some thoughts on that disturbing matter:

You beat out the Ontario Science Centre!

Eeek!

Clumsy Ontaritonian children, now and in the years to come, will think Mars is all about cold Norwegian winters, video games, and .. oh-my-god .. work! This could make for some interesting essays.

Yeah, I'm ashamed of how much significance Google appears to place on my so-called voyage to Mars. I'll try to write about more interesting stuff in the future.

Leah notified me of the following:

The Longest Journey made #11 on AdventureGamers.com List of Top 20 Adventure Games Of All Time.

So I went and checked it out. Yay! It's a lot of fun to be recognised amongst such illustrious company, and I completely agree with their number one choice, Day of the Tentacle. It is the most brilliant adventure - perhaps even game - ever made. No doubt. To rank TLJ before great games like Monkey Island 2 and Full Throttle, however... I dunno. They are very different games. It's hard to measure any one game up against another. But it's a good list, worth checking out if you're looking for a good adventure to wrap your brain around. It's too bad The Longest Journey is the most recent game on the list. That speaks volumes about the state of adventure gaming.

Hi Ragnar. I read your review of Sophocles and was wondering if you still felt positively about it.

I am trying to decide between Sophocles, Movie Magic 2000, or Final Draft.

Bu the way, is Sophocles 1.1 the latest version?

I can still wholeheartedly recommend Sophocles - it's a great little program, and very cheap too. I use it for all my screenwriting needs. And yes, it appears as though version 1.1 is still the latest version...two years on.  ¶ 13:42