Bleh.

So tired.... I don't feel like posting at all, and haven't for the last couple of days. This means I'm likely to reduce the frequency of posting to every couple of days or every week. Blarg, need sleep....

Retrospective.

To start with, a smaller post about yesterday as I didn't get the time to write it when I should have -

On wednesday I woke up early and didn't exactly feel amazing. I had a slightly runny nose and a sore throat, so I assumed a mild cold was attacking me. Regardless I was slightly happy as my wireless stuff arrived today - a wireless card for my PC (just in case) and a wireless router. Annoyingly I had to call both my ISP and Linksys to try and set it up thanks to the craptacular Speedtouch USB modem, but neither could really help. They just said to get a modem with an ethernet port. Well bummer. Later on when in uni I spoke to a couple of mates and they said just to put in all the details, such as DNS, in the router setup page and it'd work like a modem but alas, it didn't. When I got home that night I just bought a modem with two ethernet ports anyway, so that'll arrive tomorrow with any luck. Anyway, at SWARM a Magic the Gathering draft was run and so I happily took part. It was only the second draft I'd ever been in but it went rather well. I lost the first round rather annoyingly and in retrospect was even more annoyed when my mate realised I could of won had I remembered a card in my graveyard with a flashback cost. It'd have let me draw a card, another mountain, allowing me to actually play a blocker. Bah! On the plus side I completely flattened my next two opponents in the next rounds with three wins out of three. Accordingly I came third out of eight overall, whilst my friend who beat me came fourth. Oh, how ironic. The two booster packs which constituted the prize weren't fantastic, but it was lots of fun taking part. When I got home I felt crappy, so went to bed.

Today when I woke up I felt abysmal. I had a headache, a very runny nose, a harshly sore throat and stomach pains. I also got that excruciating pain which results in trapped air in the intestines (it's is incredibly 'not nice'), had a nosebleed and generally felt like death warmed up. Not good overall then. Since I felt this way I just went back to bed and slept, or at least wandered between consciousness and unconsciousness, all day till about 11 pm. When I got up again I felt one hell of a lot better, but it does mean I had absolutely no time to revise tort, which is a slight problem. Tomorrow I'll be going into Lewes Court, hopefully if it's open, to prepare my court report then in the afternoon I'll need to revise tort. My plans aren't entirely scuppered, just mildly inconvenienced. Dark_Alex also released firmware 3.03 OE-A for the PSP today and it's incredibly nifty, what with supporting PSX compression. Excellent stuff, excellent. At any rate I'll leave it for that for now as I need more rest to prevent collapse. Till next time.

New Year

Right, another New Year's Day has come and gone relatively well for me. Yesterday I slept through the day (as I'd not slept the night before) and as such I woke up at around 10 pm. Resolving to (finally) do some actual law work I started preparing the materials for my tort case note and started work between 10 pm and 11 pm yesterday, finishing at 9 am this morning. Yeah, it took a while. This is probably because I spent large chunks of it playing Guild Wars Nightfall and making sure I got the new Christmas hats. Thanks to a handy 15 minute gap between the celebrations in Lion's Arch and Kamadan (Guild Wars Factions and Nightfall cities respectively) I was able to grab all four hats in just the two sittings. Unfortunately I'd completely missed the Halloween event, but oh well. Not witch hat for me, meh. When I bought Nightfall I actually assumed that since it was after Christmas I'd miss the celebrations. Go figure they ended midnight on New Years Day in some region of America, don't know exactly which timezone. It was pretty handy. At any rate I did get the tort case note done, though as it was only 1,000 words I had to do a ridiculous amount of editing and I was still 42 words over. Bah, working with just 1,000 words is harsh. 1,500 is much easier to handle as it generally needs less pruning.

At 9.50 am my girlfriend arrived which was great, and it wasn't long before she was having a look at Guild Wars (most notably I was showing her the different dances for the professions) and playing Rayman on the Wii. She seemed to despair that she was poor at the minigames without knowing that she wasn't really at the beginning so some of the games weren't supposed to be incredibly easy to pull off first time. Several frustrated dancing attempts later and I directed her to the first ones which she did very well in. It's all about practice really. That ate up most of our day, but eventually we both went to Games Workshop. We had a nice meal together at the noddle place after our game of Mordheim. I used my undead heroes and buffed up a load of human ones for her to use. Her men were generally better than mine, with the exception of my vampire. He won the game for me as he tirelessly ate half her warband on his own. Nifty. I also had a game of Warhammer 40,000 against the Dark Angel player I've beaten 13 times in a row. Make that 14 now. I went first and the poor bugger got annihilated. He lasted till turn 6 however, mostly as stuff was deep striking in, but as stuff appeared it got slaughtered. Poor guy, he needs to seriously rethink how to play his army and how to specialise with it.

Once I got home I had the first episode of Afro Samurai to watch. If you don't know about it, look it up. Suffice to say the episode was pretty damn cool. I'm most definitely going to be following the series. As that wraps everything up, till next time.