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Twilight Princess is mine!

But (there is a but. Actually, two) I bought it preowned, because I had a serious shock when I looked at my bank balance today and so saving £6 seemed worth it. I went through all the cases on the shelf to pick out the one which looked pretty much new and hoped the disc I got was the same.

Yeah, not so much. There's nothing deep or really seriously wrong with it, it's just the general wear and tatter that comes from a disc not being looked after. I don't give a smeg so long as it works fine, it's just irritating (especially when I look after my stuff regardless of whether or not I'm planning to sell it on. Gr.) There must've been seven discs there (there were seven cases on the shelf) and I'm sure some of them would've been in better condition. -_-

The second but? They've given me the GameCube instruction manual instead of the Wii one. So that's back tomorrow to be changed. I'll play the disc tonight and if it works fine, fine. If not that's back tomorrow to be changed too.

So on my first purchase from that shop, considering it's a big shop selling preowned everything from DVDS to laptops? I'd give it a four out of ten. I'll stretch that to a five if the disc works fine and they exchange the booklet for me, but saving £6 is not a bargain for a scratched disc and the wrong booklet. Seriously. Preowned stuff should be priced by what condition the object is in like on Amazon marketplace, not by how popular the game is so how much money can they get for it.

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TP works (so far anyway). I started playing the moment I walked through the door, until ninety minutes later my mother pointed out that I should go get changed and let her watch some TV, immediately. Ten minutes of the ninety were spent chasing That Damn Cat (while my mother watched and made unhelpful remarks on how she hadn't realised games involved so much running in circles) before I finally got back in the habit and worked out what was going on. The Wii controls started out odd, became incredibly frustrating while trying to fish and then, all at once, felt like the best idea ever in the history of pixels gathered together to make shiny puzzles. I'm really going to love this game.

Also, Epona actually looks like a real horse now. You can rename her. This was another thing I got very excited about while the woman made soothing noises and backed away quickly. But. Seriously. Awesome.

My 'rents are away next week, so no arguments over the TV being used for Wii instead of telly. :DD

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Something else I got excited about today: Fanlore, a wiki for fandom and fan communities. Not only is it interesting but it's fun to think of what it's going to be in a year, two or five, and that this is the first tentative beginning when lots of links still lead to blank articles and recent changes is expanding by the second rather than day. I know there's other places out there that list these things or dictionary-ise them but nothing has ever caught my attention to be worth more than one or two idle checks when I need a word explaining. A fanish Wikipedia is fantastic, though considering how much time I spend on Wikipedia already perhaps my boss wouldn't agree.

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My October/November of Awesome that starts on the 25th in Cardiff (or arguably in Manchester on the 18th) and was supposed to end coming home from London on November 7th, has become even more awesome in the last few days. Not only is threegoldfish randomly going to the same Neil Gaiman signing as us but I happened to log onto Facebook for the first time in ages to find a message from Tim, saying everyone's meeting for the fireworks in Lancaster on November 8th and did I want to come?

And you know, it's actually a lot easier to get to Lancaster from London than it is from North Wales (even though we're two hours by fast train closer. Go figure). So now I'm leaving London on the 8th (at 9am but my ticket did only cost £11.55 as opposed to £45, which I'm willing to lose sleep for though I'll probably owe kindoftrouble some Krispy Kremes or something for it) of November to go to Lancaster, see everyone, see the rather fabulous annual fireworks by the castle and then stay the night in Crows, my absolute favourite restaurant\hotel anywhere.

This means over three weeks I'll be hitting Manchester, seeing Dylan Moran, Chester Zoo, Cardiff, my birthday, London, kindoftrouble and associated insane awesome, Neil Gaiman, Lancaster, seeing university people I haven't seen in over a year, fantastic fireworks, Crows, home. And altogether my train tickets add up to... just over £50. Call it £60 with the minibus home from after Manchester (note to self: book that in advance).

I'm a little worried actually. I'm afraid of jinxing it but... that's a lot of potential awesome. Can the universe handle that much awesome all at once? o_O

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I want a nap but if I sleep now I will sleep until morning. Sigh for only being two days into the week.