Inversion Of A Major That Won't Divide Itself

Good to see the other is coming up with some gold posts - self discovery and introspection is only ever good for the self. I haven't been doing much as all my assessment is done. Spent yesterday at a friend's birthday party and thanks to the stupid weather in our city it was freezing after being absolutely boiling for the last few days and now I have a cold. Hopefully it'll clear up during my final week. I've started counting up and I have 16 study days for 3 exams, but they're placed at odd intervals so it should be interesting studying I should think.

We're coming up on 365 posts which means you could read a post a day for a year! Also, with us just having celebrated our 2nd birthday/anniversary, this will make for an average of just under a post every 2 days which is a damn good effort I must say. Some people are just absolute freaks. A few months ago I heard this dance song which I absolutely fell in love with. But thanks to it being late night/early morning and on radio, there was no announce of what it was called. I tried for ages to track it down but to no avail. Eventually now a friend who I regularly share songs with sent it to me randomly and I was shocked as I told her about this song yet she didn't know what it was (cause the lyrics are hard to decipher). Anyway I was just amazed and happy, the song is called Planet Funk - Chase The Sun. Been listening to a lot of Mastodon, they're simply amazing. I've never heard prog/sludge metal done so well. Their riffs are disturbing and the use of odd time signatures is just amazing, a true display of musicianship.

I didn't get to see Saffire, which I am majorly annoyed about!! Ditto for missing Tommy Emmanuel, Yngwie Malmsteen and G3 (most are on during exam time)! Those bastards, it's like they plan it just so I can miss it! I'll show them, I'll show them all!!

I don't know if I'm covering old ground, but since Motor Ace broke up, Australian music has been in the doldrums (no, Jet is not a saving grace), but now two great bands are starting to show just how good we can be - The Casanovas and The Butterfly Effect. One a straight out good ol' rock band and the other is more progressive rock, kinda like a less intellectual and less skilled Tool but good none the less (less used 3 times in one sentence, I rock).

Sheesh, it's awfully early, but I must blog now or else I won't be able to tonight due to tv (The Bourne Supremacy is on and I haven't seen it before, and I loved the first one because of the realism), as well as F1!! I'm still hoping Macher can come through, win the race and have Raikkonen or Massa crash Alonso out, it shall be glorious indeed. Then I have school for the rest of the week so my blogging shall be curtailed slightly (although I do have Tuesday completely off). I downloaded the demo for Medieval 2 Total War (stupid I know, especially since I'm still conducting my first freakin' campaign in Rome Total War) and let me just say WOW! Looks bloody spectacular and it was utterly gorgeous (The Battle of Hastings was a delight, but I got my ass handed to me in The Battle of Pavia). But that's the problem, it looks TOO good, even on the lowest settings it just beat the hell out of my computer and chugged like a mofo which hampered my ability to lead properly or read any tactics. I'll have to update my computer considerably to play it well (which I want to do cause it should be enjoyed at it's highest settings) when there's a price drop after the game comes out. Hopefully that'll occur sometime in the holidays after I have totally finished my Rome and Barbarian Invasion campaigns. Speaking of which, I have played WAYYYY too much of that game during the weekends. I start at 12am, hoping to be in bed by 2am, but lo and behold it's usually 5am before I actually hit the hay because I always just have to go that extra step. As the House of Julii I have wiped out those pesky Gauls, in the middle of wiping out the Pavians on my Eastern front and am fighting a war with the Spanish on my Western front, it's tough stuff. As mentioned I took 2 serious defeats due to tactical errors early on against the gauls and I struck back with a vengeance. While sieging their last stronghold, they sallied forth with all their remaining army - approx. 1800 men, vs my finest (at the time) general and a miniscule army of 500 (about 200 cavalry, remaining foot soldiers). So you'd think I'd be terrified, but taking my cue from watching a crapload of documentaries on ancient warfare tactics and some common sense, I dished out a terrific crushing defeat on them.

Let me set the scene: I was at the Southern End in a Forest with two openings at the East and West side. I set my foot soldiers on the right side in defence mode in a column formation so that they seemed smaller to an opposing army until they were right on top of them. I placed all horse troops on the left side and began the battle. Straight away I rushed out and killed the first general and then their entire reinforcement army came in shoulder to shoulder stretching across the entire battle map. I set the order to charge and use my cavalry to sweep the screen West side to Eastside. I absolutely annihilated them and forced them to bottle neck to the East part of the forest, where my foot soldiers decimated what was left of everyone else! 40 of mine lost compared to their entire army being wiped out, it was gorgeous!

Another brilliant moment of strategy was against the Spanish, when they attacked with superior numbers against a depleted army, when I sent in reinforcements to the rear of the Spaniards. I got my first army to hide in the corner and just sent all reinforcements to charge from behind and absolutely destroyed them.

As you can probably tell, I have been getting too much of that game! Alright that's it for today folks, have a nice day!