There's news coming

I'm not saying anything yet because nothing is official, but there's some news coming. Big news. It involves work and the rest of my life. Watch this space...

Book Reviews - Amended

Just in case you're wondering what's happened to my book reviews, I've broken the one big entry into seperate ones for each book I've read. That way, "BOOK REVIEW" will get a massive citation in the label cloud and my favourite authors will also get noted...

Any comments that had been left will stay with the first book review post...

Gamer-scores and Wife-points

I used to play lots of N64 when I was in college. I was pretty good at Mario Kart and Mario 64 and Wetrix and Bust A Move. Quite enjoyed them too. I was never much good at the shoot 'em ups though. I could never get the hang of the way they worked: couldn't find my way around; couldn't move in a straight line, or around a corner, or through a door, as required; couldn't aim; couldn't shoot; certainly couldn't select, prime and fire a weapon under pressure...

Anyway. I don't play anymore. I skipped the whole PS2 thing and it looked like I was going to similarly avoid Wii and x360.

Until Conor got Kororinpa (Wii) and Hexec (x360). Not that I'm proving a threat to anyone's gamer score or anything, but how much fun are these games??? It's a shoddy truth, but these days I can't wait for the baby to go for his nap, so's I can spend an hour or two playing. My biggest daily dilemma is now which game to play: should I spend an hour on each? Or play them on alternate days? What if the baby wakes up early and I miss out?

Apparently, I was getting a lot of wife-points from Conor's mates for letting him play so much. Does my new-found obsession increase these points or nullify them? Do I care? I'm having too much fun!

The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde

...and Goldilocks ran off into the woods and was never seen again...
Jack Spratt and Mary Mary are called in to investigate to disappearance of Goldilocks and uncover an unlikely conspiracy involving Quang-Tech, SommeWorld, the Gingerbread Man (is he a cake or a biscuit?), Dorian Gray, Virginia Kreeper and extreme cucumbers.