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I had a pretty quiet weekend. Been fighting off that cold and am feeling somewhat more human today so far so i'm at work. Not feeling crap enough to stay home. It feels like it's still trying to decide just how it's going to attack me and it'll probably use a stealth tactic when i least expect it. Someone told me though, that if you start taking zinc tablets as soon as you start feeling a cold coming on that it will keep the symptoms from getting too bad and could shorten the length of the attack somewhat. It seems to be true at least sometimes. It won't make it go away and it's not a cure but the last two times i've done that, the cold hasn't been as heavy and miserable as it usually is. Might be coincidence but the zinc apparently boosts your immune system.

Hard to beleive it's the end of September already. Wow. 3 months until C-day! I actually do have a few presents already and i took Graham's over when i went. I may get him something else which i can do through something like Amazon.co.uk and have it wrapped and delivered to him. I'll see what i can come up with. The Amazon in the UK and in the US as well have a larger variety of things available than we do in Canada. Here, it's mainly the usual books, dvds, a few gift items. I think they're carrying a small range of electronics now too. Hmmm actually i've just gone to look and it seems they've got a lot more there than the last time i paid attention to it. Good! Though most of their things don't tend to be all that cheap. If you were getting a camera, for instance, it's probably better to go to somewhere like Best Buy or Henry's and wait for a sale.

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Apparently, October is the 50th anniversary of the release of the Audrey Hepburn movie, Breakfast at Tiffany's. BaT is a wonderful movie and Hepburn is absolute gold in it. I must find my dvd and rewatch. She was an amazing actress and really did light up the screen when she was on it.

I don't mind watching subtitled movies and i've seen all three Swedish versions that match the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo books. They were very good. There is going to be a Hollywood version of Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Not a "remake" but just their own version of it. I greeted the news with a lot of doubt. But... I saw the latest trailer over the weekend and I have to say, i'm a bit impressed. The casting looks pretty decent, with Rooney Mara playing Lizbeth and she's got a good look for it. Daniel Craig plays Blomqvist and he looks the part as well. Christopher Plummer plays the man that hires Craig's character to find out what happened to his niece 40 years ago. It sound like most of the actors are putting on a bit of a Swedish accent for their parts but it doesn't sound heavy handed. The movie was filmed in Sweden and uses quite a few Swedish actors for other parts. You almost want to ask why they're bothering really but i'm also glad they didn't change the location and make it happen in New York or Chicago with the remote location some little town in Maine or somewhere. It will be interesting to see how they handle the rape scene and Lizbeth's revenge. They were fairly graphic in the swedish movie but necessary to the plot. We'll see if the American version downplays it at all.

In other upcoming tv alerts, the sixth season of Dexter starts this weekend just as Doctor Who is finishing. I'll be having a catch up with a fellow Whofan this afternoon over coffee in preparation for this weekend's finale. Graham has overall been disappointed with the Moffat era but mostly i haven't. This season was better than last season overall I thought and this season's storyline arc with the "death of The Doctor" has me very curious as to how they'll get around it. They will, of course, because there's going to be another series next year. It'll all tie in with that "question" that needs asking and answering, i'm guessing. G. also has been unimpressed with Rory's character but i quite like him. He's kind of like the Greek chorus. Or Roman, seeing as it's Rory. :)

Also related, I was never a Torchwood fan though i did like Children of the Earth. I watched that but not the other series and it was quite good so i decided to watch this recent one, Miracle Day. Utter, utter toss. Really awful. I kept waiting for stuff to happen, and it was very dragged out and irrelevant much of the time and annoying when they relied on events that were important that happened off screen. It could so easily have been much better if it had been half as many episodes and WTF was that Blessing thing? It made no sense. And btw, Jack Harkness is immortal because Rose brought him back to life in Doctor Who during that Dalek war using the time core of the TARDIS. He does NOT have immortal blood or dna or anything like that. Therefore the whole premise of his blood causing the Miracle day, the reversal of such and the transfusion into the other bloke giving him apparent immortality is just ridiculous!