When I'm not lurking around Miz, hoping for a PM or thread response from just about anyone, or reading through CS's to see what kind of mistakes/errors I can find on my own, I've either been watching documentaries or playing Dishonored.
I bought Dishonored during the Steam summer sale (yay!) and I have been loving the game sooooo much. I love being sneaky sneaky and it is just such a fun challenge to get by without killing anyone or having anyone notice me. I also love the non lethal ways of disposing the "bosses", I find it so deliciously more revengeful than killing them.
I haven't finished the game yet, but I'm getting there. I stop rather frequently when I start making lots of mistakes. If I keep getting noticed/caught then I'm either too tired to be playing, rushing, or distracted by something.
The documentaries I've been watching are mostly nature and history related. The history one have mostly been done by Ken Burns. I started with Prohibition, went on to the Dust Bowl, and now I'm in The War (WW2). All three are topics I really enjoy, especially the Dust Bowl and WW2. WW2 history has always fascinated me, which isn't surprising because I grew up on classic war movies, both of my parents were into WW2 history themselves, my paternal grandfather was in the Army Air-corp during the war though he didn't talk about it sadly, and my father was in the Army for 22 years.
What I'm loving about Ken Burns' The War is it's been touching on battles in the war that don't get as much coverage as say Midway or D-day in your average WW2 documentary. Also, the history is being told not by historians, but by the men and women who lived it. There's just so much more raw emotion in it, coupled with the amazing video footage and photographs from the era. I'd wager it's one of the best WW2 documentaries I've seen in a long time.
Watching it is making me want to watch some of my favorite "war" movies: Operation Petticoat and Kelly's Heroes. Yeah, they're more war comedy movies than pure war movie, but I love them so much and after the morbid and sobering material of the documentary, something lighthearted is kind of needed.
I'm also watching the '59 version of Ben-Hur with my husband during dinner every night. I've seen that movie more times than I can count, and it's one of my absolute favorite movies. He's never seen the full movie, but he's familiar with some aspects of the film particularly the chariot race. It's been such a joy watching it with him, seeing his reactions and hearing his opinions on various scenes. Of course, he's also being wonderful as I gush on about Charlton Heston's performance.
Ahhhhhh.... I'm just in full gushing geek mode right now. Makes me feel like a happy cat lying in the sun, haha!
Because you've been putting up with my insane amount of questions.
