Finally managed to find some cheap flights for July yesterday - An impressive £250 round-trip, beating my previous best price by at least £200. OK, so it's not a direct flight, but for those sorts of savings, I'm willing to be inconvenienced. For those as are interested, I found it on ebookers via Kelkoo, but it's not to Orlando and includes a few days either side of Nimbus.
Finally got around to watching the directors' commentary on Shrek last night, despite it being probably my most-watched DVD. A few interesting titbits, but I think in future I'll just sit back and enjoy the film properly. The film itself remains hilarious, and there are some great serious moments too - the love montage underneath Hallelujah is simply sublime.
Oh, and random channel surfing during breakfast found me at Challenge TV and a marathon of the insanely silly Takeshi's Castle - a Japanese game show featuring daft physical games (it's a knockout stylee), and mostly featuring the competitors who fail in the most spectacular (and quite possibly painful) fashion. Commentary by Craig Charles just makes it even funnier.
Cannot cope. Off to Chicago.
April 18 2003, 06:11:23 UTC 18 years ago
Now I do know you have no loyalty to any particular airline, and I don't want to put pressure on you or make assumptions about your future plans (either way), but you only need to make four transatlantic return trips with the same airline to get to 25,000 miles with most airlines, which is the level at which you can get free flights, bling-tastic upgrades and so forth. You certainly have been a fairly frequent flyer recently, so it's something to think about, at least. If you like, I'll give you more bumph and tips about this at your convenience.
I've never yet actually seen Takeshi's Castle - no Challenge ? here - though I have heard a fair amount about it and I do have a tape of Storm The Castle, the single episode that was produced of an American version. It's a lot of fun. Did I ever show you the wonderfully named Bang! Bang! Bang! when I was at Keble? The first third of the show is about intuition and contains some very strange but entertaining guessing games, the second third of the show is about inference (that'd be Mastermind, then) and the final third turns into Gladiators. It's very strange but rather cool. I also have Tokyo Friend Park II, which is large physical indoor games from a theme park, but it isn't as good. I'll bring the tape to Oxford if you like, though I dare say we'll all have far better things to do than to watch it. Certainly would cheer up a random breakfast, though.
Have fun in Chicago. I will be mentally cross-referencing your post with
April 21 2003, 08:52:02 UTC 18 years ago