Reflections of Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEMuEywHxcw ABBA. I can bore anyone within listening distance with my talk about ABBA. Now, I quit playing music the year ABBA won the Eurovision song contest ( 1974 ) with a little tune entitled 'Waterloo'. After I quit, I didn't follow music much for a while. I did get one of their early albums -- I believe it was 'Waterloo' -- but lost track of them. Partly due to my being quite busy with work and family, and partly due to my consciously trying to stay away from listening too much, as I would have missed playing. Too, here in America, ABBA was not as popular as in the rest of the world; probably mainly due to the fact that they did not tour here until 1979, and in the USA, we have some misguided notion that we won't like nor buy music from anyone who doesn't tour. Even though The Beatles had put the lie to that years earlier. Still, those in charge of promoting music in America did not promote those who did not tour for them...

Okay, most days I have nothing; I just sit down and start typing, to see what comes out. It can be scary; my subconscious isn't subbed all that far, I fear. Spent most of this past weekend doing two things: playing the new Tomb Raider game, Underworld, and watching ABBA videos at YouTube. Tomb Raider; I do like PC gaming, and I do like Tomb Raider. It has been both one of the best games ever to play, and the most frustrating.....the new series, by Crystal Dynamics, has taken the adventurous Lara Croft into new realms, and the graphics are nothing short of stunning. Including Lara herself -- the detail is amazing, and the animation is wonderful, in Underworld. Some of the puzzles are still frustrating, and occasionally the direction you intend for her to go becomes another one altogether, but it's minor, and the auto-save system virtually guarantees you won't have dozens of steps to replay to get to where you messed up. When it comes to PC gaming, I have many I like, but few...