Creative Misadventure

I'm glad I updated Bonkers when I did, madcap fans, otherwise you may have been kept in the dark just like I was.

A massive twenty-one hour loss of power struck Bonkers Headquarters and the surrounding streets on Sunday! Shutting down at 01:00 and not returning until 22:00, all power was completely cut. Of course, this meant I nearly died: no computer, no music, no PlayStation2, no television... thank goodness I've been cutting back, otherwise it would have been unbearable cold turkey. I did learn one rather nice piece of trivia, though: did you know it's almost impossible to have a decent game of I-Spy in the dark, after the first person says "S" and you say "shadow"?

What a summer this has turned out to be! On the plus side, my cooking skills are about to improve (Simon'll be pleased for next year... less ready meals and fried eggs in the new kitchen). Thanks to Mum, who found a great bunch of twenty-minute recipies in one of those yay-for-women-boo-all-men magazines (okay, so the source material is flawed, but I can make the cooking manly... where's my apron? You know, the one with all the flowers...), I shall be competing on Ready Steady Cook in no time! I'll take ten pounds from anyone willing to dare me to polish Ainsley Harriot's head...

So the Middle East is destroying itself again, ignoring the UN Resolution and all. I don't know which side I should be on in this conflict. On the one hand, Hezbollah are being kicked around, which is good: religious extremism of that kind should be seriously discouraged, especially when it results in violence, which Hezbollah can't claim to never have done. On the other hand, however, Israel have been complete fools in the whole thing. Invading Lebanon and blasting civilians is no way to react when you lose one soldier (who wasn't supposed to be behind the lines anyway) and want him back. Any excuse out there, though, will do. I think us Western powers should back off, let the Middle East fight until they've got no fight left and then hopefully they'll realise how stupid it is to battle each other based on something as outdated as religion.

Having just offended millions in that last paragraph, on to my latest projects. Two fan fiction novels I'm working on at the moment for various websites are very exciting (my own original novel series is still ongoing, but has taken a temporary back seat). The first is simply entitled 24 007 and does exactly that: James Bond and the 00 Section travel to Los Angeles and team up with Jack Bauer and CTU to bring down an international company with terrorist connections. The second, called Star Trek: Voyager - Tempus Futile (see what I did there? Clever, eh?), has the crew of the Starship Voyager racing against time to restore crippled systems while trapped in a gigantic net, which just so happens to contain ships from the future, ships from the past and a Borg Cube.

Bonkers isn't letting me upload images, which is a shame, because I've created logos and cover images for both projects. Oh well... you'll have to take my word that they're excellent, then... what do you mean, "yeah right"?

Peace out, ladies and mentalmen. I shall return...