• 3Jun 13

  Quick gaming and movie update

  Hi everyone - just a quick blog today. Picked up Grid 2 on Friday and am loving it so far. One or two framerate issues which is slighly disappointing but apart from that a great racing game. Haven't played anything else since.

  Watched Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter on Friday evening, excellent movie, interesting take on American history and plenty of violence! Well worth a watch.

  Then on Sunday afternoon finally got round to watching The Hobbit on 3D BluRay on our ( fairly ) new 3D TV. Hadn't seen the film before and really enjoyed it. The 3D effects were very good and had a constant "oohhh" and "my god" etc from my kids

  Oh yeah - my second eldest became a teenager on Friday so that's 2 in the house now.....RUN

  That's all for today  

  • Posted Jun 3, 2013 5:42 am GMT
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• 22May 13

  Not about X1

  So the Star Trek video game: not great reviews and let's face it movie tie in's are rarely any good ( although on a side note that isn't going to stop me picking up Fast and Furious Showdown on Friday ) and the market is saturated with FPS games anyway.

  But a strange thing occured in my house. My eldest lad, who turned 16 last week, has never watched anything remotely Star Trek related and obviously just not been interested. So when the game turned up on rental ( is that soon to be a thing of the past? - sorry couldn't help it ) he had no expectations about it.

  So what happened? He put the game in and actually quite enjoyed it - to the point that he borrowed the first movie from me and now wants to go and see the second one! He is also talking about watching so NG/DS9 etc. So the game converted him.

  Maybe the game isn't so bad after all and it's pre-conception that killed it?

  Anyway now I have shared that nugget I will go back to cooking dinner

  • Posted May 22, 2013 9:00 am GMT
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• 26Apr 13

  Back in the Hospital then!

  So the wife is back in hospital again and I believe right now she is "under the knife". My 12 year old and I left at 5am this morning to take her in - she was due to be first on the list so had to be there by 7am. Got there to discover she had been bumped to 2nd.

  We waited with her until about 10:15am but she then insisted we leave to get back home where our 15 year old was looking after the 9 and 7 year olds! Just as we got home ( about 12 ) I got a text saying they were about to take her down. 

  **UPDATE** Just spoke to one of the nurses and surgery is underway! Might not hear anything until 7pm ish though so a few more hours of this waiting

  I'll be taking the kids to see her tomorrow afternoon

  Think I might go and game for a while to try and take my mind off it.

  Hope you all have a great weekend.

  • Posted Apr 26, 2013 7:15 am GMT
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