What a great Mohrning!

 I gotta say things couldn't be much better at the moment! Everything has just fell into place in the last 24 hours. Maybe it's Karma or something finally paying me some dues. Or all that hard work paying off at the end of the day. Whatever it is, I'm taking it and running with it! Things have just gone from strength to strength lately and I gotta say it's got me pretty much walking on air. Maybe I should go buy a lottery ticket while fate is smiling upon me?


With thanks to my fiancé and both her parents our house is almost completely ready for home open this Sunday. All the painting is finished and alot of the fiddly stuff has been done, just leaving me with the front and back gardens to finish and we're all set to try and sell! It's been a long few weeks getting everything done, mostly due to the fact I've never been the most "handy-ist" man around the household over the last 5 years. Fingers crossed we'll be selling quick and moving into a bigger home in no time!

 So while the house was being finished and I was on the 12 hour shift at work I decided to try my luck at something. I inquired last week with our phone provider (a network I work for/sell their product) and found out that we had a few weeks until they would let us renew our plans and get new phones. Now bare in mind this is already a generous 4 months before our actual contract is due to end. A bit of cunning wordsmithing and our upgrade department was happy to let us do the upgrades a few weeks early! So for both myself and my fiancé it's goodbye old iPhones (3G & 3GS) and hello brand-new iPhone 4 32gb! The screens & camera are amazing in comparison to our previous models, but sadly haven't had much play time yet.

  But wait, there's more! No, no free steak knives, but more greatness! So with all luck seeming to fall on my side I got into work this morning to find two nice little packages laying on the counter, one of my bosses coming by this morning to drop some stock off in the morning and must have picked them up from in front of the roller door for me. There's only two packages I've been expecting to arrive around this time and I immediately got a huge grin on my face.

 Behold, my games I ordered from good ol' eBay! Now of the two sellers I'd purchase from I'm only going to give praise and credit to one of them. See the other one advertised that they offer "combined postage" and then went further to state they "combine postage on all SJ Games". Sweet, so I figured I'd buy both my Steve Jackson dice games, Zombie Dice & Cthulhu Dice, from the same seller. Requested total and... what the hell? If you call "combining" postage adding the first item's postage cost to the second item's postage cost then maybe you need to look at how eBay works! No response or contact, I couldn't be bothered messing around so just paid anyways and requested them to review the costs or offer a credit. Still nothing, even now with the games in my hands. Neutral feedback here I come!

Hooray for games!

 So maybe there's my little slice of bad luck to help even things out a little. Not all bad though. The other eBay seller, Nerdvana Games, was quite the opposite. A perfect seller, if you could say such a thing. Contact was above standard and they were very helpful with my transaction from the U.S. to here. I'll definitely deal with these guys in the future! The shrink wrap was even still around the game; Vampire: Dark Influences. Yes, that's right fellow geeks, the same Vampire that is one of the creations of White Wolf Publishing, responsible for the World of Darkness & Rage amongst other game "worlds". I think I might have to get back into MMO's in the future too...

 I'm at work so am going to leave them shrink wrapped for now. Gives me something to look forward to when I get home. Though seeing my fiancé is always a nice gift to get home too. Anyways, just sharing my excitement for now, time to get started with what looks to be a great day at work. It is Friday after all... sorry!