Season's Greetings!

Song of the day: "Confusion" - The Zutons

Site of the day: http://www.ellismodels.co.uk A great place where sad people like me buy Japanese versions of toys I had twenty years ago.



Pre-rant notes: I'm abandoning quote of the day for now, 'cos for some reason I'm having trouble thinking of them. I just realised that I'd already used the last one in an earlier post.


Right then.

This is just gonna be a general post, with various different topics, 'cos I've got a lot to say (as usual).
First off, immense apologies to anyone who actually reads this thing for my total lack of posts over the last few weeks. I've barely had any free time, work's been really busy in the run-up to Christmas, and I just haven't had the inclination, to be honest. But I promise I will try harder to blog more. I'm gonna make it my New Year's Resolution.

I've also not spent too much time recently on what I hope will become my first novel. At last count I had 142 pages, and almost 34,000 words. I'm really pleased with it, but again, I need to spend more time on it. I'm not discussing any more about it here, cos then if it ever gets bought by a publisher you'd all know the story and won't go out and buy it to make me very rich......

I've been spending more and more time recently on wrestling e-feds. I'm in three now, and doing quite well in two of them. Not a champion in any of them, yet, but I do have a title shot in one of them very soon.....

As for real wrestling (real in the fact that it's on the telly instead of in my head), I'm quite happy with the way things are going on WWE Raw right now. Triple H has been deposed as world champion, and there will be an Elimination Chamber match at the next pay-per-view on the 9th of January to decide a new one. An Elimination Chamber match is when four guys are shut in little boxes, with two guys in the ring. Every five minutes one of the guys in boxes is let out, and it goes on until there's only one left. And it all takes place inside a great big metal cage surrounding the ring. It's a very painful match, and one that will provide lots of intrigue. After that, at the end of January, comes the Royal Rumble, my favourite wrestling event of the year. But I'm not gonna talk about that now, 'cos I'm gonna do a post on it nearer the time.

Over in the world of football, Liverpool have a mixed first have of the season. We've had some bitty games, where we've struggled to eke out draws against teams like Aston Villa who we should be walking over, and we've had some amazing games like when we beat Arsenal 2-1. We've been seriously unlucky with injuries (if there are any Americans reading, picture this - the club spends two years chasing a French stiker who's touted as one of the best in the world, then finally get him for a club record of 14 million. He takes a couple of months to settle into the team, but when does he starts banging the goals in. Then some git breaks his leg and he's out for the rest of the season. Which runs until May......), and need to buy well in January, but I'm hopeful of a better end to the season than last year. And on a non-Liverpool note, I was spot-on about Souness going to Newcastle. He's done bog all but complain since he got there, and the team are rapidly slipping down the league (although not as fast as Bolton, who, when I last wrote about football were in third place, and 12 games later are languishing in 13 without a win in seven games). I'd like to say I feel sorry for Newcastle, but they're all a bunch of overpaid primadonnas who need teaching a lesson, so I really dont!

We've not done much in the way of Star Wars roleplay recently, because my friends and I have discovered the wonders of Star Wars Battlefronts on the X-Box. This is quite simply the greatest multiplayer game I have ever played. There is nothing more exhilarating than being a rebel soldier hiding in a tree, picking off Imperial Stormtroopers with a sniper rifle.....

On the non-StarWars gaming front, I've become totally addicted to Splinter Cell, also on the X-Box. I've always preferred games that you have to think about rather than just shoot your way through, and this is ingenious. There are levels where you simply aren't allowed to shoot stuff, and have to find another way through, be it tiptoeing through shadows, sliding into buildings on the wire of a giant crane, or rappelling down the side of a building and smashing through a window with you feet. It's an amazing game, and it and its sequel should keep me going until the new Zelda game comes out for the Gamecube later this year.....


Well, despite thinking I had lots to say, I've more or less finished. Just want to wish a Happy New Year to anyone reading, and I promise I'll do a new post soon.

And I promise it will be good....