I’ve been meaning to introduce my layout to the blog since just after I started it up and now I’ve finally accomplished it. Granted, it was an extremely lazy move from me! What you’re seeing here is the modified layout for my old Total Gamer website, which has been tweaked to suit Word Press. It’s not bad, it’s functional and that’s all that really matters.

I’ll be making further changes over the coming days as there are a few more bits I want to change here and there.

The best part about being off work is that I can be awake at this time and not really feel that guilty about it. Ok, I’m normally go to bed around this time when I do work but it’s just nice to be able to sit here for longer. The birds are now singing and it’s gradually getting lighter. In about 20 minutes or so it’ll be full daylight.

Unfortunately today it’s a little cloudy out (it’s meant to rain later), but at least I can see a tiny bit of blue sky. Hopefully the weather will stay fairly nice.

In unrelated news, I now want to see Scott Pilgrim Vs The World.

Since I last updated this place. I’m not sure how long it’ll be before I increase my blogging frequency, I could start tomorrow, I could even start next month. All I know is I’m making this entry in the interest of the tidyness of my archive links! We can’t be jumping from March to May now!

I’ve just had dinner. Yes… at 3:15 in the morning I’ve finally had dinner!

See, what happened was at around 7pm this evening I thought I’d try and watch the Inglourious Basterds Bluray I bought at Tesco today but PowerDVD had other ideas. After three quarters of an hour try to mess with the bastard thing (and trying alternatives) I admitted defeat and retired to bed while watching Robot Chicken on DVD. The only problem with this was I was out cold for the next 6-7 hours and now I’m wide awake.

I’ve already been looking into this but I am definitely in the market for a dedicated Bluray player now. I can’t put up with PowerDVD’s crap.

Check it out, this if the first webpage I have come across where its’ had a problem with me having the Adblock Firefox plugin installed. Screenshot below:

At first I thought “hmm, I’ll disable it once just for this page” but no it continued to have a hissy fit about Adblock being installed. It was at this point where I decided that the website could go and fuck itself. I am not being dictated to by some twerp on the Internet about what software I have installed on my PC. And to be honest, if this happens again, I’ll go elsewhere for what I’m looking for.

The page was probably packed with enough ads to kill my PC anyway.

I haven’t been very good at keeping this thing up to date this year so far. This is mainly because all of my entries would’ve comprised of ‘Snow, snow, snow, snooow, god fucking dammit when will this snow go away?’. Yeah, I usually love snow but we’ve had so much of the stuff that it has sickened me of it somewhat. It’s even worse when you’re waiting for £120-ish worth of Internet Orders, which won’t come through because the Royal Mail and other couriers have come to a stand still.

Anyway it looks like we’re gradually going back to normality, after a week’s worth of shorter days due to the weather I am now back to working 9 – 5. What a nice start to the year especially when your permanent contract kicked in! I’ve also already got nine and a half days worth of holiday booked off *squee*. I had 66 hours to claim before the 31st March, so I’m taking a couple of long weekends between the end of the month and March.

One of them covers Aliens Vs Predator’s release and the other will allow me some quality time with Battlefield: Bad Company 2, this of course is assuming their release dates stick!

Or it was, but it still is. If that makes sense!

I went down to the electronics store to buy a TV today. Unfortunately I couldn’t find what I was looking for (read: they were too damned expensive!) so we went to wait for a bus at Warrior Square. Opposite this bus stop is a Memorial for Queen Victoria, which today (and probably for the last few weeks) was donning a Christmas hat. It was pretty amusing to see, so I snapped a few pics with my mobile. What makes it amusing is it’s a nice change for the Traffic Cone she’s wearing all year round.

Hope you guys are having a good one, I’m currently sitting here syncing my iPod Touch 32GB for the first time. I’ve also managed to make myself a strong snowball – more advocaat than Lemonade, it was an accident. :\ Not really up for spirits at this time in the morning.

I’m off to my Nan’s at 1:30 for Christmas dinner, w00t!

Thanks to the the recent Speed Gamers Pokémon Marathon I have been in the mood to play Pokémon, the last time I played the series properly was Pokémon Sapphire in 2003, in which I managed to get a free legit copy before release. This year is also the 10th Anniversary of my absolute addiction to Pokémon Blue. Playing Pokémon against the guys in Sixth Form, now those were the days!

Anyway my copy of Pokémon Platinum came today and its brought back all of those good memories! It’s an excellent little game so far and the DS seems more suited for it than the original Gameboy did. Managing your inventory on the touchscreen makes life so much easier. I’ve been playing for an hour and a half now and I haven’t seen a single Pokémon from the original yet… then again their numbers have risen to 490-odd from the 151 in the originals.

I’ve got to catch me a Pikachu! Team Rocket 4 Life, yo!

Just doing yet more tidying in the room. It’s at times like this I wonder whose dumbassed idea it was to put a 96 litre tropical fish tank upstairs. Then I come to the stark realisation it was mine. FML.