Friday, June 30, 2006
I'm home.The op was successful, but it would be the understatement of the century to say that I'm in pain.
By god, it hurts. When I breathe, when I stand up, when I sit down, when I laugh, when I cough.
Ouch!
Quite out of my face on pain killers right now, which is rather amusing.
Steve 11:01 PM [+] (0) comments
Been busy.
I go in for my hernia op tomorrow.
It's safe to say I'm pretty nervous.
I know it's just a routine and very minor thing, but the very idea of general anasthetic scares me.
Oh well.
Fingers crossed and stuff.
Steve 12:34 AM [+] (0) comments
Sunday, June 11, 2006
The weekend in Scarborough was very enjoyable.Great weather, and watching england play in the world cup, while catching some sun on the beach was a blast.
Our only reservation was the guest house. I won't name the place, coz they were actually very pleasant people... but yeash... it really smelled of cat pee there, and the decor... well... it had a very high comedy value, if you get my meaning.
Speaking purely for myself, hotels are definitely the way to go.
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Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Yeah yeah, I know... no new site yet.The distractions and sidelines keep on piling up.
So the trip to York was awesome, and I should probably put photos on flickr, but I havent even got round to that yet.
Then yesterday I went to the hospital for this hernia, though it was only a consultation, not surgery yet.
It seems there's around a 3 month waiting list for surgery, which while it's nice as far as being mentally prepared is concerned, means we've had to cancel our holiday to devon. The chances are, the surgery would be scheduled either slap bang in the middle of the holiday, or just before it, and I don't wanna be several hundred miles away in the event of post surgery complications.
So the final distraction, predictably, is a game.
Tourist Trophy is, quite literally, Gran Turismo on motorbikes. All the same circuits... same graphics and physics engines, same game structure, same everything... just on motorbikes.
Is it good?
Oh hell yeah!
Is it easy to get into?
Well... you could never really just load up Gran Turismo, play it and be good... the same is doubly true of Tourist Trophy. You really have to practice to be remotely competative, but once you've got the swing of it, the level of satisfaction when you win a race is way up there.
I get the feeling Gran Turismo on PS3 is gonna be something along the lines of Gran Turismo 4 with bettwe graphics, combined with this.... as from what I've read, it includes bikes.
Very clever use of resources, making an entire standalone game out of what is effectively just extra stuff added onto an earlier game, to make a next gen game... if you get my meaning.
Labels: games, hernia, medical
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