Long time no post

The last two work days of last week were much the same as the beginning of the week, unnecessarily stressful, due to various reasons. I went to Rob and Em's for badminton on Thursday but Em wasn't well, and Rob and I decided we couldn't be arsed. So we ended up looking at laptop options to replace the venerable iMac they've had on loan from me since about 2005 and drinking hot chocolate with Twirls to dip into them.

It was the rugby on Saturday which worked out quite nicely. We ended up on the top floor of a club in Denbigh with the matches on a projector. Somehow we ended up with that top floor all to ourselves for the whole thing, which was nice. After that it was out around more pubs, stopping off to get chips on the way.

Sunday was spent doing nothing much due to tiredness, other than doing some more crap in SR2 and watching a couple of DVDs.

The Lost and Damned came out today, the DLC for GTAIV. I've heard encouraging things from Will about it so I might just pick it up, especially as I've got SR2 up to 97% complete and little motivation to get the last 3% as it's mainly the last levels of some activities which are annoyingly hard.

I did put GTAIV on today anyway to see how it felt and it was a distinct shock after the craziness of SR2, primarily the more realistic handling of the cars. The first car I got into was a typical 70's American land yacht, which was almost impossible to control at any kind of speed. Fun though, especially as it drifted sideways yet again onto a pavement, sending hapless crowds of people flying. It just feels so dull after SR2 though, you miss the bizarre little touches like when I left my character standing around in a nightclub and he strolled over to the dancefloor and started dancing. You'd never catch Nico doing something random like that. Also I found Nico infuriatingly slow in his movements, even running.

Found a great invention in Morrisons. USB AA batteries. You pop the end off and put them into USB sockets to charge. Once full, you put the end back on and use them as a normal AA battery. What a great idea.

Not much else to report really. Payday tomorrow, woo.