the corner office

We got a PlayStation 2 on Friday. Wondering why I've been so low profile? :-)

R & I decided that we may as well invest in a PS2 which not only provides gnarly gaming entertainment (not that we play too many PC games, but a PS2 is just different, dammit :-), but can also double up as a DVD player, since we'd had enough of gathering around my PC to watch DVDs.

Burnout 2 rocks. We haven't tried any other games yet :-) We also hired a couple of DVDs for last night (it's too bloody hot to do anything else). We finally got to see Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone (I know, we're trez behind the times), and Treasure Planet. HP well good, TP well Disney, enough said. I've never read any of the HP books and my first exposure to the Hogwarts world was the second HP movie. Tom Brown's School Days with magic. Loved both movies to bits. It's a pity they can only churn out a new Potter movie every year or two, because let's be honest, the young lad playing HP won't be very convincing once he's turned 21.

Ronwen also hired The Mothman Prophecies. Personally, I don't do horror flicks, because I'm a big wuss. Ronwen arm-twisted me into watching the opening bits, and in the end, it turned out to be more of a supernatural thriller than a horror movie, and I think I enjoyed it more than Ronwen did. There was only one kakbroekskrikkend moment in the movie, where Richard Gere headbutts a mirror, but other than that my wussified old ticker didn't take too much strain.

In between all of this and the heat, we've been trying to do some spring-cleaning in anticipation of leaving for Durbs next week for two weeks over Krismis and New Year's. I don't know why it is that the Ubercleaning Sessions only kick in for when we know we're not going to be around. Is this to be polite to the burglars?

Ronwen's off at a girl's day out at the Roodepoort Botanical Gardens, and I've got some more flat-sorting-out to be done before friends pop by to watch The Two Towers in anticipation of RotK which we're going to see on Tuesday night. Gotta dash!