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been busy. clearly. have decorated my first room in about 7 years. the walls have got taller in general since i last did that. Now own an N64, super Mario 64, F-Zero X, Banjo Kazooie, 1080 Snowboarding and a transfer pak for when I track down a cheap copy of Pokemon Stadium.

past week has been really busy. Didn’t get up to that much at the weekend, but it seems like it went really fast. Will attempt to slow the weekend down some. Might have a meal out with S which works for me. Definitely a bit of gaming. And hopefully some writing. Maybe even the odd diary entry

that sort of comment usually means I wont…

Heavier going today, workwise at least, just a very long busy day. Sorted now, sat at home with Cut Chemist’s Lesson 6 playing, which is one of the madder subtle tracks I’ve heard in a long time. Actually very relaxed now, if a little cold it seemed like it might snow properly today, which it should. I am really due some proper snow. We just had crap southern english snow today, which was pointless and lasted all of ten minutes. I want a good blizzard or two, even if I suppose it won’t ultimately help with the flooding in Oxford.

GAME BOY ADVANCE SP!!!!!!!!!!

New Year and all that. I guess I tend to update this when I’m at work, and having not really been at work much for quite a while, I haven’t. So there it is, a happy New Year to all my readers.

Had the Christmas Day at home with S, and then New Year with her Parents, which was very relaxing. Am now primed and ready for a New Year of motivation, weight-loss, fitness, and er, lots of gaming too. All of those and marriage too.

Actually serious about the weight-loss, in fact all of those things. Am aiming to lose two stone this year. Yeah right I hear you cry. Welllllll, we’ll see. But I am going to have a go properly.

Oxford at the moment is flooded. Luckily we live a little uphill from the river, so we haven’t and hopefully won’t be affected. But it is bad, two of the main roads have been shut off. May well take a wander down to see what has been going on tonight (well that counts towards my fitness regime too).

Well, I’m celebrating (with a hat and streamers and everything) at the news that Pokemon GameCube is on its way. It is a bit stingy that you will need a GBA and one of the latest Pokemon GBA games to play it, but seeing as I will have that well before it comes out, then it is not such a problem for me.

I will admit that owing to some travelling in the past month or so, I have played an awful lot of Pokemon. It does travel so well I reckon. I have also bought Pokemon Blue, so I now have the first 5 GB games. I just need Crystal now, and then Ruby and Sapphire when they come out.

Also purchased/gifted over the past few weeks have been Gran Tourismo 2 (PS1, bought from the new 2nd hand gaming shop that is just round the corner from me, another result for the New Year), Age of Empires (PC, 3.25 in a sale) Crash Bandicoot Wrath of Kotex(I have unfinished business with that game) and Links 2001(PC). So I am quite well stocked on the gaming front. Starfox, GTA3VC, Mario, GT3 and GT2 all are in line for some playing, but my first attention will be on the Pokemon Blue that arrived today. For a few days.

to put a patch on today. Got the fear as soon as I realised this morning, but decided to wait until lunchtime to do something about it. Got to lunchtime, looked at the wind and rain outside, and decided I could wait until I got home. Feel weird now. Spaced and tired. Very spaced. Sore head and slight trippyness. It comes and goes. Fuck me niccoteen is evil.

Only half an hour to go, and it seems like quite a while yet. I will manage it, but it is hard.

Bomberman

Going to try and write up my last week another time, but suffice to say I now know a bit more about Microsoft Access than I did, or than even I ever suspected I may need to know. On a completely different subject, I have now done 8% more in GTA3VC. Just to give another feel for the game, I was just making a coffee, and thinking about a level where you have to help shoot a load of gang-members. They have very carefully barricaded themselves in, so my route one tactic of driving at them doesn’t work. But I just remembered that I know where I can find a bullet-proof vest, and a flame-thrower. I suspect that will do the job. This is one of the things I like about the game, often an entirely different tactic from the obvious is the best way through. Also got my first helicopter last night, and being able to fly around the whole game is yet another great aspect I’ve found on my journey through it.

I have decided to start a new project, to go with all the other things I start and never finish. This one is to try and remember as much as I can about World of Sport.

Here goes. Okay, I can first remember a trailer for what I think was the Autumn of 1976, or possibly 1975. There was definitely something about the lumberjacking games. This was where competing lumberjacks had to race each other by climbing up very tall logs, ringing a bell at the top and jumping down. They had some sort of belt around them and the logs, to make this a bit safer. The technique goes :- Slide the belt up, move your feet up the log, repeat to top.

I think there is a larger page in this somehow. Not an interesting one, but a larger one.

I can also recall ice-barrel jumping, fireman’s games, American football, skeleton bob, skateboarding competitions, airplane racing, bike jumps by Evel Kneival, Eddie Kidd and some other bozo, wrestling of course, banger racing, greyhound racing, horse racing, cricket (occasionally, usually the the Yorkshire vs Lancashire games), Darts, snooker, Billiards, cliff-diving

and rest