Back again - albeit minus a chunk of foot-bone and with a pile of sitches rapdily dissolving in an eight cm scar (there's a picture on my Facebook profile if you know where that is). Two trips to the physio next week just to get the thumbs up then back to Wing Chun and Choi to shed a few pounds. It's good timing, I'm off on a two-day wilderness course thing mid-September learning how to start fires and build shelters etc, so I need to be mobile.

 

No trip to the outdoors would be complete without splashing a couple of sovs on some new kit. As much as I love my Z55, I've just sprung for a Golite Pinnacle. This has the advantage of greater capacity for longer trips at under half the weight of the Z55. Unfortunately I can't lay my hands on a black one, so blue's had to do. There goes any thoughts of ninjaring my way through the wilderness.

 

I'm also working on a book pitch for a publisher. The deadline for the outling work and synopsis is three weeks time. I'm happy with what I've got so far - although it's mostly a series of chapter notes and requires a few good sessions at the wine bottle keyboard if I'm going to get it finished in time. It's proved to be a real challenge as it's part of an existing fiction series and in a style I haven't written in before. I'm putting it together using yWriter3 - a fantastic piece of freeware available from Spacejock software. You can tell right from the off it's been written by a published author - it's nothing flash, it just does the job of keeping tabs on characters, scenes and storyboards perfectly. Highly recommended

 

Oh - and all videogames should be reviewed this way while all current affairs coverage should be presented by Jon Stewart.