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I’ve been playing quite a bit of Settlers of Catan on the Xbox 360 recently. It is a great board game brought onto Xbox Arcade, which as far as I can tell keeps all the board game elements, and then provides you with either decent opponents or the ability to play online. I picked it up pretty much from diving right into it, and I’m rather enjoying it. Let me know if you get it and fancy a game.
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On Monday I set out to try and track down a Nintendo Wii. I’ve been pondering it for a while, and having just been paid this weekend, I felt the urge to own one overwhelm me. Could I find one? Not for lack of trying. I hit every possible store in town, to no avail. The last one I went into I just dejectedly asked “You haven’t got any Wiis, have you. No? Good. Bye”. It has only been out here for six months, one would think they wanted to sell the bloody thing. Now I’m annoyed and don’t know if I want one at the moment, especially if it means tracking them down, rather than being bought on a whim (wiim?).
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Bank Holidays rock. 3 days off to relax, achieve little, and think of what I could be doing were I bothered. Great.
Hopefully we’ll get a wander down by the river in sunshine tomorrow. Weather is supposed to last for us until then. We also have the return of Mrsfb’s brother from the states, our recon mission to New York. I’m hoping he is coming back packing sweets. Maybe a visit from some friends too. And now my 360 is working again, some gaming on that when it starts raining. Oh, and the Monaco GP, the finest of all the F1 races. Should be a fun weekend now I spell it all out.
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Well, I’ve just been tagged by Emily who writes one of my favourite blogs, Doing it all again. So this means I have to give you all 8 random facts about me:
I tag back Al, Emma, Wonderduck, Iamnotthebeatles, Ben, & Sarah.
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Well it seems the weather gods do read my blog, lovely day outside at the moment. It may get wet later, but it’s been nice thus far. I got slightly drenched on the way home last night, despite having a brolly and “the way home” being a two minute walk from the bus stop. Mrsfb wasn’t anything like as lucky and got absolutely soaked through, poor thing. Oh well, it is supposed to be nicer over the next few days.
Have to get around to facing up to sorting my Xbox shortly, especially as the Halo 3 beta is just out. I have also found out through the forums on Digital Spy that I might be able to get my dodgy Sky+ box replaced, which would be a very good thing indeed, as the quality of the recordings on it at the moment are shocking, the sound skips to the point of it being unwatchable. I was considering packing it all in and moving to Virgin, but the accounts of people using their boxes are even worse, same problems, but then with issues on the boxes not recording at all thrown in, which hasn’t ever really been a problem on Sky. So I’ll try and get it sorted and stick with them.
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All cold and wet outside, this is no fun at all. A few weeks ago it seemed like we were in for the longest and hottest of all summers, now those thoughts are relegated to thoughts of should I have waterproofs or an umbrella in my bag (it has been so grotty I’ve gone for both thus far this week).
Had a good trip to Birmingham on Saturday night, whilst mrsfb went off to visit a friend in Woking, I went out with some mates up there, and spent a very pleasant evening talking boys rubbish and drinking beer, whilst a pirate wandered around the pub. No, we didn’t figure out what they were for either.
I’ve been trying out the streaming tv program by Joost. Rather nice. Looks very good as you navigate through it, and the actual quality of the video, and of how well it streams is great. Content is maybe a little sparse on the ground at the moment, but they are supposed to have signed up some quite major companies recently, and it is still in beta, so there may well yet be more to come. Only downsides are that there isn’t a version in Linux yet, and some of the menus were a bit weird, I would be told that a channel wasn’t available, but then if I drilled down I could happily watch programmes listed in the channel. Watched some old America motor racing (IRL) that was great fun.
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Good rest, not achieved too much in the past few days, caught up on a few things like reading a Valentino Rossi autobiography, just generally took it all very easy. Had my Xbox 360 break (booooooo) which I’m not happy about, and got a new phone (a Nokia 6300) which I am rather happy about, especially as I can now hook it up to Linux machines and get pictures off it, which is great for me (it was one of the last things I still had to do in Windows). This is a very good thing.
Looks like I shall be off for a little trip to see friends in Birmingham on Saturday, which will be fun, never really been out there before. I’ve mainly been passing through whenever I’ve been there. Can’t wait!
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My last day in work for six whole days today. Can’t wait for a nice little break. We have a few plans, hoping to try going to a couple of different places, and possibly take the odd photograph or two. Nothing too extravegant or massive, just lots of nice little things hopefully. We’re thinking of a little cycle ride up to the Perch, and possibly a trip out to see some comedy on Sunday. Keeps us busy!
Spoke to my niece last night, who is not that long out of hospital after some problems with her diabetes. Happy to say she sounds fit as ever, although bored with not doing much for a couple of weeks. And starting to enjoy the xbox I gave her too. Just nice to hear she is peachy again.
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