A Futile Day

Spent all day in work in a furious, pissed off state. I really don't know why. I've slept badly the last few nights but last night I slept better, despite the dog having a neurotic moment and thundering up and down the stairs all night. But when I got into work, that was it, boiling with rage all day. I was advised by my colleague to tone down the language as the constant stream of 'f**ks' and 'f**kings' was getting irritating. Everything just seemed futile and pointless, including everything in work and my entire life.

So I got home and watched The Thing, which was good. While I watched that, I set the 360 off downloading the new Bioshock demo, which was done by the end of the film. Gave it a go. It is certainly interesting and the graphics are undeniably impressive.

The 360 has lots of games, but is shoddily designed and hardware failure seems to be a case of when it will fail, not if. The PS3 is built like a rock, but has fewer games, a shit controller and at least in the UK, is very expensive. I think the 360 had a good chance at the market, but now that everyone knows that they fail, it could be doomed. The Wii appears to be unstoppable, though.

Nokia has announced a problem with BL-5c batteries. My 7610 has one and as I mentioned before the battery isn't great any more. Sadly mine isn't recalled, so there went my hope of a new battery for free.

Will finally updated his blog! Hurrah!

Still not feeling quite right. Hope I'm in a better mood tomorrow. Don't like feeling this way.

Those damned monkeys in balls

I hate Super Monkey Ball. I hated the GameCube games, because they were the kind of game that made you feel crap when you failed. Also the levels were so well designed that you felt compelled to carry on, despite near constant failure.

The Wii version, Banana Blitz is just the same. It's a bit of a shock using the Wiimote at first, but then it becomes second nature. The tilt sensitive controller is what Monkey Ball has been crying out for. However, this game is just the same as the others. As you watch the ball plummet into the depths for the 50th time, you can scream and shout as much as you want, and you know it's your fault. Not the game, or the controller.

I am half way through the Volcanic Pools level of Banana Blitz and it's driving me crazy. I HATE THIS GAME and yet I can't stop playing it. I won't let it beat me.

I took the greyhound out for a walk in the biting cold wind, which was reasonably fun. At one point though, I met a couple who had a pair of sheepdogs, and they had NO control over either of them and were stupid enough to let one of them off the lead. Note: if you have an uncontrollable dog, keep it on the lead. That way it won't run away down someone's private road while you stand there shouting ineffectually. Also hitting them doesn't work either. I hate situations like this, last time I met someone like this, we were attacked by their enormous shaggy black dog, which was completely out of control.

A house down the road was on the market about a year ago for 600,000 pounds which is just insane. Clearly they failed to sell it as it's now up for rent. At 1500 pounds a MONTH. Unbelievable.

I feel there was something else I was going to mention, but I can't remember what it was. Very tired now, so that's probably why.