Stuff and things

Didn't do much this morning. Played some bass and listened to some music. Then went to Andy's for 2:30pm to play some games and watch the rugby. Andy was still a bit under the weather after a wild night out to celebrate his 28th birthday* so Rob and I played some more Halo 3 and got another level out of the way. It was fun but a bit annoying in some parts where a tank killed us a ludicrous number of times. Then after Andy woke up a bit, we spent some time playing around in the Forge mode. We don't actually try and kill each other, we just play with things like the Banshees and teleporters and stuff like that.

We had already agreed that we were going to get a Chinese when Will came round, so we got a 4 person banquet. This amounted to rather a lot of food and so by the way the the rugby came round, we were all rather stuffed. It was pretty good though and the chicken and sweetcorn soup was really tasty.

So yeah, a good day overall.

Never been particularly impressed with Vauxhall cars, but the one I have always liked is the Calibra. Yeah, it's just a pretty Cavalier, but it looks amazing, even ten years after they stopped making them. They're cheap now, but that means that all the boy racers are buying them and ruining them with bodykits. My sister had one identical to the one in the picture, and it was a great car.

*Actually 30th but we pretend to believe him when he says 28th.

Wii wouldn't want it any other way

The Wii is possibly the greatest thing ever made. Yeah, you know the story, it's got people into games who wouldn't normally play, it's accessible, friendly, blah blah blah. But if you've never played on a Wii, then you can't understand the joy of holding the remote and watching it respond to your every movement. Yeah, some of the original launch titles had issues, the sword fighting in Red Steel was dreadful for example. But the DS had a bad few months after launch, and just look at the games catalogue now, there are some absolutely stunning games out for it. Given that the Wii is selling like...something incredibly popular, I'm sure we'll see some amazing games coming out for it.

What prompted this Wii love fest? Well, today was a very decent day. Walked the dog first thing, and then went round to a mate's house to spend the day watching rugby and playing Wii. I'm not massively fussed about rugby, but I'll watch it happily enough. It's quite possibly the most complicated game ever though, so I usually have no idea what's going on. This was followed by a long session of Wario Ware and Wii Sports. As I was the only one not drinking, you'd have thought I'd have had a distinct advantage - to a certain degree, maybe. Oh well, we played until we couldn't stand up any more and finished the day with a calm round of golf.

This is the latest I've been up for a while. Very tired now. Must sleep...