Homeward Bound

It's time to go home! Yesterday evening about 1730 I got a lovely call from the office - it seems that it's a good thing we didn't go out yesterday as the turbine still isn't ready for us and we can't have it today (Tuesday) either. So with no turbines to work on for the forseeable future it's time to go back home. True, it would have been nice to be out here for a few more days and drive back Thursday as planned. Sure it means I have to doss around in the office hoping I don't get given much to do for the next two days. But at least I'm back for football. Of course there are extra positives of going back too:

• Use of my glorious internet connection
• My Tron: Legacy Blu-Ray will have arrived and the Digital Copy can be suitably assigned to my iTunes account
• New 'The Vampire Diaries', which I'm told has some decent revelations
• New 'House MD' x 2
• My own bed
• A bath
• More than one room to potter around in

 Added up it seems like a combination for a decent evening of celebrating that Easter is just around the corner / wasting time with DVDs and Blu-Rays, or at least that I'm no longer putting an immersion suit on every ten minutes to transfer from boat to turbine. Surely it must be time to stop wearing them soon.

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THOR, THE CAP AND MARVEL

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 I'd just like to add my shock and disbelief that Thor, the comic book film adaptation from Paramount Pictures and Marvel has got a good review from Empire Magazine (where it posted a score of 4/5). My disbelief comes not from some disagreement on the quality of the finished film (I haven't seen it), but from the fact that its better than the utterly shit trailer suggests. Conventional wisdom was that Marvel were gonna have a decent year - Thor was going to be shit (and perform likewise at the box office, afterall who wants to watch a film about the Norse God of Thunder), whilst Marvel's other release ('Captain America: The First Avenger', again with Paramount Pictures) was going to be really good and probably perform likewise in a lot of places (though the retitling of it to simply 'The Last Avenger' in some markets suggests it won't play too well everywhere). This idea of balance, of movie making ying and yang therefore suggests that the Cap is going to suffer with a tedious film although all evidence at the moment appears to point oppositely. 

I make no bones about Captain America being my favourite superhero (hell, Captain Wales, Captain Cymru and the like have barely been in one small edition of a comic book ever). The Cap to me seems like the most grounded of the superhero world (along with Batman I must say). He's the ultimate story of weakling to hero and he doesn't lose his personality, his dedication, his sense of whats right and wrong during the transformation.