July 8th, 2008 Mark
Saturday morning, and my girlfriend heads to work. I get up at the same time for some breakfast and realise we have no milk. So I head out to the local supermarket to pick some up. Whilst there I had a “quick-look” down the XBox 360 isle.
Guitar Hero III was reduced from £60 to £45.
Now, I have fancied purchasing this game for a while now, but thought I may not enjoy it, because I am really not into that type of music, how wrong could I have been.
I gave in to temptation, and made the purchase becuase of the offer.
I promptly made my way home, skipped breakfast, and loaded up the game. At first it was pretty hard, but now I am pretty good at it and I totally love this game, so much so, I think I am addicted!
This point was proven again this morning, and yesterday morning whilst getting ready for work. You see, I normally have a shower, get my shirt and tie on, then have breakfast whilst watching the news.
This morning, I got as for as opening the cereal box, and I thought to myself, what do I want more, this food, or a quick blast on GHIII? Food or GHIII? Food or GHIII? Food or GHIII? Food or GHIII?
5 minutes later and I’m in the middle of the living room floor, on my knees blasting out Paranoid by Black Sabbath.
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April 14th, 2008 Mark
I have no idea why, but as soon as a camera is put in front of my face i do one of three things:
1) Point at the camera in some kind of catalogue pose.
2) Stick my tongue out or pull some kind of funny face.
3) …or this new thing I keep doing with my fingers (see image, me on the left)
I have no idea why I started doing this. It has only started to occur in recent months.
And, each time we hit the town, I think, I must look good in front of the camera, then immeadiately after a few beers, I forget, and the 2 fingered salute reappears!
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April 13th, 2008 Mark
As you may or may not know, I have been playing golf for the last year. Now, I am by no means good, but me and my buddy get by and have loads of fun in the process.
The odd birdie by me hasn’t been unheard of, and they are always a pleasure to g
et, making you feel that you are progressing with your game, only to shoot a 7 on the next par 3.
Anyway, yesterday morning on our weekly golf outing we were having a pretty average round. Up comes hole 6, a par 4 dog leg left, with trees blocking a view of the green. Now, there are two options here, play safe and hit it straight to the corner of the dog leg, or shoot straight over the trees. Obviously, we go the over-the-tree route (it looks better).
I tee’d up my shot with a 6-iron and took my swing. I got loads of height on it and it looked the right direction. I was quiety confident it had landed on the green.
So, we headed off down the fairway, to the make-or-break view you get when the trees clear. I couldn’t believe it, I was about 6-7 yards away from the hole. A great shot by my standards. Immediately the thoughts of an Eagle came to mind…my first ever!!
I walked up to ball with my putter, very nervous at this point. I steadied my self, took a couple of practice swings, then went for it. I hit it, it looked on target, was this going to be the Eagle? No. The ball reached hole, and with too much pace, jumped up and skipped over the hole.
Damn.
Still managed a Birdie though, so it wasn’t all bad.
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