Haven't been here for a while, let's have a rabbit.
Gamez:
I've hardly touched the Xbox 360 in the last couple of months, I've kinda gone off it a bit. Not sure why, big screen, gamepad, sofa, should be good but the hard fact is I prefer PC gaming. Again, not really sure why.
On the Xbox I got the Red Dead Redemption Zombie pack for MS points, the equivalent of about £3.50 so feel sure they boobed on that one.
The expansion is better than the main game imo, excellent.
I like Bayonetta and NFS Hot Pursuit a lot and recently bought el cheapo Blazing Angels Squadrons Of WW2; Alan Wake and Infinite Undiscovery.
Blazing Angels, by reviews, is said to be easy but I still manage to crash the plane thus proving my expertise at every flight sim I've ever tried is a bit rubbish. Good job I never flew a Spitfire 60 years ago, lol
Alan Wake is good but hard, I'll stay with that one for now.
Infinite Undiscovery is also a pleasant surprise but in my experience of these Square Unix games they often lull you into a false sense of security then kick you right up the dangly bits. We shall see.
As well as STALKER for PC I also picked up a racing game 'Test Drive' for PC in a charity shop today for a quid. It dates from 2006, is very arcadey but is surprisingly, so far, very enjoyable.
Yesterday I went to a branch of CEX at Bromley, Kent, to p-ex some games but found it had closed down. More and more I see High Streets dying.
Have almost finished Quake II from Steam within Win 7 and wonder why newer games can't capture the sheer adrenalin of gameplay like something around ten years old. Too much concentration on graphics & cut-scenes, methinks.
Last night I watched the film 'Long Riders' a western from 1980 and wondered to myself whether Americans considered this film an accurate representation of their history cos to me it looks realistic but who knows?
I had an auto accident in October last year and suffered whiplash. As everybody else seems to make claims for stubbing their toe on the pavement and succeeds in raising policy prices I figured I’d be a mug not to have a go as well.
I got an appointment to see an independent doctor yesterday, last November. Since that appointment was made, no kidding, I’ve had about 30 reminders by post, e-mail and text to keep the appointment. There must be money to be made in this thing.
So I went and saw my Indian Doctor after having to fill out yet another questionnaire.
He asked questions, looked at me, read my form.
Then he asked me to twist my head this way and that and bend this way and that, which I did. If I was an actor I could have faked difficulty but truth was I didn’t, couldn’t be arsed and truth be, for the most part I’m more or less as agile as I was when I was 18. Oh, ok, when I was 32
I commented to the doctor ‘You must get a lot of actors in here’ He didn’t even look up or smile. Money making business.
I absolutely hate this thing and to a degree hate what I’m doing but the guy who drove into the back of me wrote my car off and did cause me temporary pain.
Years ago I’d have thought ‘crap happens’ and shrugged but now everybody wants to sue everybody, tis a sad sad thing.
I probably won’t get a single penny but I also honestly don’t care. I feel dirtied because I’ve even taken this path.
I’ve also claimed car hire charges cos after that so-and-so rear-ended me I had to hire a car for 2 weeks to complete work. Two weeks was all the work I had on and I’ve pointed this out to them, had I had more, hire period would have been longer. I am nothing if not honest. And possibly stupid. We shall see what happens, the car cost £250.00 to hire for 12 days.
I bought a car about a month ago, a ten year old VW Passat Estate with high mileage (137K). All in all, it’s perfect but there is a problem, I shall ask itsme about this presently.
It’s actually a Sports Turbo model which I didn’t realise and is very very fast. I haven’t had many fast cars, whoo
No work on atm apart from fit a new loudspeaker at half term on 23rd Feb and possibly some sound system/emergency lighting maintenance at same time if school in Dulwich decides to renew contract.
Daughters are all ok, I’m ok, I guess, except I seem to have a gum infection, will see Doc in morning for antibiotics.
Gum infections are scary to me cos radiation left gum’s immune system a bit lacking and an infection could lead to jaw removal if not caught quickly, I have seen the results of this at Guys Hospital in outpatients waiting room and it’s scary.
Playing lots of vinyl and diggin’ it, right now playing Love’s Forever Changes.
New albums, loving: The Foals; Belle & Sebastian’s ‘Write About Love; Arcade Fire’s ‘The Suburbs’ My Chemical Romance’s ‘Danger days’ and as a result of watching the Misfits, The rapture’s 2003 album ‘Echoes’ which is superb, definite PIL influence there.
Before I shuffle off this mortal coil I have been compiling a few mementoes/stories from this somewhat chequered life I have led. I am nothing unique, everybody has some great stories to tell which is to say I don’t think I’m anything different or special. I may post them
I’d like to see more people contribute to the ‘Wheelz’ thread.
Where is Crazylegs these days? Miss him.
And, folks, that’s it, I’m all typed out, lol, take care