Currently…

Playing:
Resident Evil 5: Lost in Nightmares / Desperate Escape

Listening to:
The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing

Watching:
The I.T. Crowd

Reading:
Tales from the Thousand And One Nights translated by N.J. Dawood

Hey look, a Paypal button.

Ouch!

I almost trod on my cat whilst getting out of the bath, not wanting to hurt him I moved awkwardly and as my feet were wet I slipped on the floor, both legs went flying, and I landed on my ass with a huge bump.

I feel like I’ve broken my coccyx.

My cats name is Gizmo.

So, I got Gizm-owned.

Things are looking up

I’m slowly learning the intricacies of XML to take advantage of Halo 2 stats, might be starting a web design course in September, that’d be cool, get me on the right track.

Anti-depressants still not kicked in though, and I think I’m coming down with a cold.

Oh I don't know

I really want a cigarette, the anti-depressants are kicking in and making me feel funny, it’s so bloody hot, Gamesradar is so bloody slow and I’m a bit hungry.

Weird

The anti-depressants are… weird. While I can’t consciously feel any difference, at least the side-effects have mostly stopped now.

One thing though… I just can’t play Halo 2 without cigarettes. That game makes me so mad, makes me doubt my own mad skillz, I just need a nicotine hit… So annoying!

Three months down, a lifetime to go

So, that’s about three months of no smoking. I didn’t think I could last this long, or even last three days, but I have. I don’t feel I’m a non-smoker yet though, that’s for when I stop getting mad, strong cravings like all the time.

S’funny, I can feel the difference already, I had a tomato the other night, it tasted how I remember tomatos to taste 10 years ago… I thought food had just become stuffed with E numbers and artificial additives, but no, it was actually my taste buds being clogged by the smoke. How odd.

An unexpected turn of events

Went to the Doctors this morning for some more nicotine patches, walked out with a prescription for some Fluoxetine Hydrochloride (anti-depressants).

Depression would explain how I’ve been feeling for the past few months though.

Random Fury vs XBM

Random Fury is playing a few games of Halo 2 against XBM (yes, the Xbox magazine) on Wednesday, I’m so chuffed. We’re even getting a page in the mag, and I’ve got a little Q&A thing to do.

The team is me, Ironing, melatonin and KjGarly, and it’s gonna be amazing. I’ll be doing a proper run down of the games like Bungie do when they have their Humpday Challenges.

Dante even suggested the other night that I contact Bungie and try and organise a Humpday Challenge against them… If I say that RF is Future Publishing’s premier Halo 2 clan, with me being a (kind of) employee, or representative at least of the UK’s biggest videogame magazine publishers… Hell, it could work…