I’m currently sitting here waiting for my Windows Media Center 7 setup to complete and thought I’d do a quick little update about what’s been going on recently.

In all honesty, not a lot. I’ve had the last three days off of work because it was my Birthday on Wednesday. I’ve been mainly chilling here and playing a load of Battlefield: Bad Company 2. I’ve also got a PC Wireless Receive for my XBox 360 controllers (courtesy of Errkal), so I can now finally play the copy of DIRT2 that came with my graphics card late last year.

I’m enjoying this game so far, I prefer the Rally and Rallycross sections over the big truck thingos (I can’t think for the life of me what they’re called!) Of course, the game is not without its flaws. The two main issues I have so far is the navigator in the Rallies is a bit slow to let you know about crucial details. A nice example of this is *SMASH!* hairpin to the left, take it slow… YOU THINK?! Also, the rewind function is pretty useless in comparison to Forza 3′s. In Forza you can rewind to a comfortable distance before your crash, but in DIRT2 I find myself only being able to rewind to half way through my crash. Pretty lame.

Ooh! I’ve also got Red Dead Redemption, I haven’t played it yet but expect to hear more about my Wild West shenanigans here shortly.

After a gruelling two weeks of wondering whether Super Mario Galaxy 2 would eventually turn up I have now sent my claim form back to GAME (via email, I ain’t no snail mail sucka). If everything goes to plan I should be able to sit back and relax with my new copy of the fat plumber’s adventure dropping onto my doormat sometime next week. WHO AM I TRYING TO KID? The Royal Mail will probably lose that copy as well!

FML.

Super Mario Galaxy 2 was released on Friday 11th June, and while many kiddies and adults are enjoying the fat little plumber’s latest adventure I’m still going without. Yup, despite the game being dispatched LAST TUESDAY, I’m still Super Mario Galaxy 2-less. Bunch of bastards, I expect my copy to be here on launch day dammit!

PS: This carrot cake is all kinds of awesome.

After returning to Twitter earlier this week I’ve decided that if I can update that several times a day then I can kick out a few blog entries each week. At the moment I haven’t got a whole lot to say (it is 4am and my brain is on shut down), one thing I can tell you about this week is passing kidney stones bloody hurts – I recommend you try it!

I’ve also shoved a little Twitter feed at the top of the page so this place will continue to be kept up-to-date… from a certain point of view!

Yup, less than 24 hours after coming back from London after seeing Rammstein we went back to see Lacuna Coil’s head-lining performance at the O2 Empire. See understandably we were a bit knackered for the performance. We have now decided that next time two bands we want to see are playing one night after the other we’re going to pick one or the other!

So how did it go? Read on…

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I’ve been meaning to write about this for about a week now but I’ve just been very lazy! Anyway, onwards!

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Yup, I’m heading back up to London just over 12 hours after coming back from there* to go and see Lacuna Coil perform at the Shepherds Bush Empire. It should be good, except for the part where Dirty Little Rabbits are on. They were supposed to be the support back in July but dropped out, we throught we had dodged a bullet but alas the bullet has made a 180 degree turn and is on it’s way back!

*Yes, we’d originally planned on staying the night but it turned into a pain in the ass to find a nice hotel.

I got back from the Rammstein show around three hours ago and I must say it was a friggin’ awesome show. At the moment I’m too tired to explain what I liked about the show so I’ll update you later on today in another entry.

In the meantime here’s some of my favourite pics from what I took. Pretty good going considering how difficult it was to get a good shot due to the light displays, pyrotechnics, tremors in my hands and especially how far back we were!

I’ve got annual leave for the next two days, I’m off to see Rammstein today and Lacuna Coil tomorrow. And the icing on the cake is that the Aliens Vs Predator demo has just been put up on Steam. Woohoo!

My download is current going at 711kb/s. COME ON INTERNETS! HURRY UP!!!

Remember these? I’ve got another prescription from them, once again I needed to come home from work and get a Doctor’s appointment due to another urinary tract issue resulting in abdominal pains on the left side.

I made it to my appointment at 11:30 and found myself in the waiting room for an hour and a quarter, during this time the pain was getting pretty intense to the point that I didn’t know whether to sit or stand because I just could get comfortable. (Last time this happened I couldn’t keep still, I eventually had to try to go to bed.) The annoying part was that roughly 2-3 minutes before the Doctor called me in all of the pain stopped dead. I explained all of this to her and now I’ve got more antibiotics and I’ll be sent a Hospital letter to get my kidneys scanned. The Doctor reckons I’ve got a stone or two that keep moving.

But we’ll see…