Weekend of fun

Friday night was spent with the gang at Caroline and Rob's, first having a rather tasty BBQ (lamb burgers and kebabs FTW!) , being entertained by their demented cat which climbs the apple tree and shakes apples onto your head, and then having a fest of Red Dwarf episodes. All good fun.

Saturday was spent round at my Dad's, as my cousin had come down from Preston. It was a good day, enlivened by a trip to Llandudno for a shopping trip. While my Dad's wife and my cousin went off to the shops, my Dad and I went to a video game shop and a music shop. I picked up a cheap copy of Dead Space for the 360 and lusted after a rather nice MTD bass which was pretty cheap at £280 - perhaps it was cheap due to the tasteless lime green strings that were on it.

Sunday was spent assembling my latest parts bass (a white Jazz type thing) before settling down to a good long session of Dead Space. I was tempted to get itwhen it first came out, and at £10, I thought it would be worth a go. It's a pretty decent game, though not very original in plot. The gameplay is pretty much like Bioshock in space with creatures from Silent Hill. It has some good ideas though, such as areas in vacuum and zero gravity and it ties in well with the story. I've done three chapters or so and it's decent so far.

Enough of the Michael Jackson crap already. I don't CARE about his brain being left out to dry while he's being buried in a gold coffin.

Handed arse on plate

So a few days of really quite warm weather. Normally cause for celebration but not when you're in offices without air conditioning. Also, when the air conditioning dies in the server room, this is a bad thing. Oh well.

The car had the other new tyre and the tracking done by a gibbon at ATS. The last guy was quite good, this one was an arse. It seems pretty much the same but now I'm really paranoid about the tracking, as I know the rough track can throw it off.

Badminton this evening. Despite the heat it was good fun and Em and I had a great match where She Who Doth Take It Too Seriously had her arsed handed to her on a plate. It was great, she gets so angry when she is losing, and at one point she threw her racket on the floor. Oh, sorry, no, she 'dropped' it. Heh. Her trademark smashes into her opponents face all went straight back to her, it was truly a thing of beauty.

I've been trying to eat well this week and did OK apart from a sandwich at lunchtime, a Mars bar and a bit of Coke. The one thing I've really avoided is dairy stuff and my skin seems better, although I don't know if it's the sun or that.

Learn how to echolocate. Could be a great party trick.