I grew up in the 80s. My computer games console was the Commodore 64. In the dawn of the 90s Dad bought a PC and I started on the obvious (Alley Cat, Lemmings), then various Quests (Space, Heroes, Kings) and eventually various kill-things games (Syndicate, Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake).

At some point after Quake (I think maybe Half Life) I quit playing games. I think around the time I started getting into music, and eventually started the band.

I've tried to get into games again. Really I have. I've been very very slowly working through Half Life 2 and Portal (a gift, thanks Heath).

I play on the Wii occasionally, mostly House of the Dead: Overkill and World of Goo... but I find more often than not I have other things I'd rather do than look at a screen and watch representations of things dying, as fun as that is.

I'm sorry, I'm not a gamer.

I tried.

I wasn't too impressed with Season 1 of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles but, as I am for most TV, I was sucked into wanting to watch the rest.

Season 2 is much better, but it takes some effort.

At first the show irritated me. While there is obviously a season wide plot, each episode always appears to start randomly in the middle of an unexplained situation that always made me think I was watching the show out of order.

But I found something that made it bearable.

At various points in the show characters come back in time to help/hinder John Connor. Two of these characters knew each other in the future. It is hinted during the present-day meeting of these characters that the future has changed between each character's arrival in the present.

If I approached each episode as a moment in John Connor's timeline that significantly altered the future, the show became a lot more fun. The random-cut intros were an editing device to show change. The confusing motivation of the from-the-future characters explained by their differing timelines. The inevitability of the machine/human wars (explained in the Terminator 3 movie) is also nicely hinted at by the episodic destruction and re-discovery of Skynet technology.

I'd heard the show ended on a massive cliffhanger, but I found it the perfect ending to my self constructed sub-plot.

Meanwhile, Shirley Manson makes a fantastic Terminator.

I worked Cup Day. I worked last Sunday. I've been working late (7+) most nights in the last few weeks. Friday night I worked until almost midnight. I worked for a couple of hours on Saturday.

I've been busy.