Gaming, Halloween and Family visits

Well I haven’t done a personal blog for a while so today is a double posting extravaganza!

Well where to start last week saw my parents and sister down so I had a nice meal paid for by my dad which is always good and it also allowed my parents to meet Amanda which was good. They seemed to like her and both gave her a kiss goodbye so that can’t be bad!

Monday was interesting to say the least. Part of my usual routine walking to James’ I was invited in as he was just finishing a pro evo game. Which, I’m ashamed to admit, was pretty fun to watch. The downside was that we had a lecture in 5 mins when they finished so we entered student pacing and still got there early. I was dead impressed!

Tuesday was digital electronics day and due to the student strike thingy we didn’t have a full lecture. However me and James didn’t know this was happening until 5mins into our lecture time. So we went back to James’ and played metal gear online, which is really good, despite my obvious lack of skills in playing it. When we returned for our lab session after the lecture time we then found out he ran the lecture for the last hour than the normal 2 hours. But c’est la vie eh?

Wednesday , C programming. What can I say fun but annoying when it doesn’t work. Spent about an hour on one question and all I was missing was 2 quotation marks, very annoying. After all that programming I was hungry so me and James made a trip down to greggs for a fresh loaf and James got a sandwich at subway…..I was less than impressed and decided to trump his subway with 2 home made sandwiches with my newly acquired bread. I so won…

Friday bought the release of Guild Wars Nightfall and FEAR extraction point. Both of which I bought with a severe guilt feeling, but I justify myself by saying the games market has been really quiet recently and that its all helping me towards my course and discovering myself as a gamer. It also bought a mass Kingdom Hearts 2 playing as DBZ:Tenkaichi 2 is being released the next week so I need to complete it in order to use it as part exchange for the new game.

Tuesday and Halloween wasn’t really being celebrated as Amanda’s and her flatmates were going to throw a party the Wednesday. So I was just at Amanda’s sitting in her kitchen looking out onto the street and some random guy starts stripping at me, very weird, then 2 guys stumbled past and stole random bits of rubbish on the street and proceeded to take it home with them. Man I love watching the public from that kitchen.

Wednesday started pretty bad. I was shattered and I had C programming. So I went to get James and he was having a worse morning. With a major hangover and just literally being sick he ventured out with me into the world of C to only return 15mins later. So by myself taking on the world of C. It was a nightmare. I worked through the entire session (3 hours) and continued working for another 2 hours at home and still needed to get the answer off my lecturer. I also went to town to get my Dracula cape and teeth along with some apples and a tub for apple bobbing. Wednesday evening and the party was in full swing. Although at first it was a little slow it was nice to just sit around, chat and have a couple of drinks. It was much funnier later on with apple bobbing and blue jokes and innuendo to every event.

Amanda foolishly said she couldn’t cook despite wanting to be a chef when she was younger this then sent Abbey her flatmate and mother of the household to get Amanda to cook for me Thursday. Spaghetti Bolognese was the dish and although I just loved the thought of someone cooking for me the fact it tasted fan bloody tastic was just ace. I really like it at her flat its much more like a family home there than it is at my flat.

Today brings new promise as I’m now off to get changed to go into town and get Tenkaichi 2 I’ve been a bit hooked to the DBZ fighting games ever since Budokai 2 so I’m really hoping this lives up to standard that the others have made.

Laters Folks!