Music: Im not sure there is much in the way of music I haven’t already shared with you.

Books: I’m going to go with the Harry Potter series. For a children’s series, the books are well written and the plots are interesting. The subplots and humor are sometimes subtle and sometimes in your face, but its always entertaining. Its every kids dream, to find out you have magical powers.

Computer Games: The Longest Journey. This is my favorite adventure game of all time. I really connected with the character, and I love the science/fiction/fantasy type feel to the plot. It’s long and challenging, but not frustrating. The graphics were good for the time, and when you finish it’s more like you read a great story than just played a game.

Blogs: No suggestions. The only blogs I read are yours, livejournal, and a bulletin board called flyertalk (and that one relates to my job).

I want you to slow down and relax. As soon as the weather is fine, get that hammock out and enjoy the beautiful grass and lack of weeds in your yard. Can’t believe how great it looks. Get a tall glass of something cool and refreshing, and maybe a snack and an interesting book (I know you have some) and play whatever music you enjoy, and kick back and know that we love you and want you to be happy. Smoochies and Hugs.

Music: Metal bands with girl singers. I love the dichotomy between heavy music and light vocals, particularly when there are also double bass drums. I used to think it was kinda gay to like harder bands that had female vocals. Now I don’t care so much. Check out Nightwish, “Once” or Flowing Tears, “Razorbliss”

Books: “Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman” has to have been one of the biggest influences a book has ever had on me. Conversational in tone, it chronicles pieces of the life of Richard Feynman, a Nobel Prize winning physicist. Laugh-out-loud funny at times… he was, indeed, thinking differently.

Computer Games: Titan Quest. I was a huge, huge Diablo / Diablo II fan, and it’s like the developers took all that was good from those games and made things better. Then, with the expansion, better again. Lots of little UI niceties, like a button to filter out all the useless dropped items you don’t care about. And the bad guys you fight drop exactly what it is they’re using against you - which is comforting when some low level beastie was kicking the crap out of you for no apparent reason… oh, he had the Flaming Uber Sword of Player Killing Doom Death. Sweet, now I do.

Blogs: Eh. I have to read them for work. Every. Freaking. Day. Bunch of whiny, self-absorbed, narcissistic, redundant idiots, the lot of them.

Max: That sounds incredibly good. I am making my way through the great books you have lent me recently… I am still trying to get everything else to fall into place in order to fulfill that picture perfect setting of relaxation that you described, but Rome wasn’t built in a day. Thank you so much for being there for me during a troubling time. Equally the same to Geo and GMom!

cwp: Thanks for stopping by mate. Lets see what you’ve suggested there…

Metal bands with girl singers: Generally I have found that female singers don’t really have the presence of voice to hold there own when surrounded by the sounds of the instruments in that type of music. Sure, I can see a certain dichotomy, but if they’re drowned out but come across weak as a result, I don’t see the point. Still I’ve put both Nightwish - Once, and Flowing - Tears - Razorbliss into the “rotation” on my Launchcast station, so hopefully I’ll get a chance to hear them soon and see what I think.

“Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman”: Having some knowledge of your personality, and having read the blurb on this title, I can’t say that I am surprised by your recommendation. The book does look like a good read and quite interesting, I will definitely keep an eye out for it.

Titan Quest… hmm checked out some gameplay videos and it look like a blast. I am surprised that this game was never on my radar. And the thought that the bad dude you just killed actually drops what it was using… wow, about bloody time Will also keep an eye out for this one.

Thanks for the recommendations mate. Much appreciated!