Depths of Peril is a great game.

I started a few characters, and then settled on the Rogue. I was blazing along, and after a while, started wiping out the other Covenants in town.

The iron was hot. I smashed em all, except one. Not sure why I left this sucker alone, but I was so far ahead in the ranking that it didn’t seem a problem.

Now, they are so far ahead of me that I’m not sure if I can do better.

The moral of this story? Strike! Don’t worry about making the game longer than it is. Characters carry onwards into new games.

Also, don’t name your female Rogue “Abel”.

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I pretty much loathe shows like 60 minutes (at least, the aussie version).

But tonight, I flipped channels and saw bears. Big Black and Grizzly Bears.

 

The story was of a man named Charlie Vandergaw.

 

This is what the man who made his home as a hunter of bears, and then was transformed into a friend of bears, said (paraphrase).

You call working in an office till your 70 a life? If I can have enjoyment from building my home out here, if I can do this .. This is living. The other is merely existing.

It was a pretty awesome segment. At least, the guy and the bears were. Didn’t think much of the reporter (Liam Bartlett). At times he seemed disdainful of Charlie, but his demeanor could have been explained because he also seemed to be packing his dacks constantly. I understand bears can rip you apart .. ahhh, but anyway. I digress.

Charlie the Bear Man made another very clear point. A few years back, a man who was the defender of bears, who went and camped out in the wild, doing Steve Irwin stuff, was killed. Eaten alive by bears.

Charlie, the old (not so much) man who is alive today, said that what he does (from within sight of his house, and has done for many many years) is as different as night and day to the bear naturalist.

The bear naturalist went into the wild, he invaded the territory of the bears. What Charlie does, has done, is establish his own territory. He was a hunter. And one day, at his (the very same) house, a bear approached, crawling on it’s belly. From there, this amazing story of relationships between man and beast took off.

Here’s the google search for Charlie. Currently the channel Nine website doesn’t have a story transcript up, but here’s the link for if it does.

After a big weekend, I found this man, Charlie, and his story very refreshing. Thought I’d share it.

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For almost a week now, I’ve run home from work in the afternoons. It’s about five kilometers. It takes me about thirty-five minutes. This is pretty slow, even for a big guy like myself. I’ll be happy if, in time, I can knock ten minutes off that time.

The phrase, Little By Little, has been a revelation during these runs. Actually thinking it, mentally concentrating on it when things get tough (and when you’re not that fit, and it get’s tough five minutes in, you know it). “Little by Little”.

It keeps me going, so that even if I’m running not much faster than a walk, in my mind it’s still running. And it’s not stopping. Not walking. Although I do appreciate very much a good walk, I’m specifically drawing a line between the two.

And it’ll get better, barring injury or some other big life change. My body should strengthen and gain endurance. I’ll never be fast, but I’ll get faster than I am now.

What’s it all in aid of? Keeping fit. Feeling the burn (I love that good-sore muscle burn). And most of all, breathing life into my dreams of playing for the Wallabies. Ahem.

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.. And others don’t.

Too many good tv shows are sent to the burial grounds.

Too many bad tv shows are given medpack after medpack.

Why did Firefly have to die, and any reality show live?

What will happen to RJ’s last book? This new guy, he is not RJ. But if he’s good, if he breathes life back into the one-time King of Epic Fantasy, I’ll be okay.

What has happened to Dragon Age? I feel like I’m waiting an eternity for another Planescape or Baldur’s to sink my teeth into. I know they weren’t perfect, but man alive, I loved em.

And one more thing. Wolverine the movie better not suck.

Every exterior link is Wikipedia? Lazy lazy boy.

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