simont | (no subject)

Bah, minor ailments.

So far this summer I've been doing very well at avoiding insect bites, but one seems to have managed to get past my defences at some point yesterday. If I find it I will bite it back.

This hayfever is really starting to irritate me; somehow it seems worse because it's waited until August to strike rather than hitting in May or June like most people's. I spent two months thinking ‘ooh, hayfever season has clearly started but I still feel fine, perhaps I'm going to get away without it this year’, and then my hopes were cruelly dashed.

And perhaps most irritating of all, I played Metroid Prime for an hour last night while waiting for the house to air out after getting back from the Gallery (the GameCube has actually come in very handy in this circumstance – it's nice to have something I can do while the house airs out at night that doesn't require me to turn the lights on and attract insects!), and an hour of fighting a particularly unpleasant boss creature has given me a blister on my trigger thumb. I suppose I can't really claim I didn't ask for that, but it's annoying nonetheless. I'm just thankful that the ball of my thumb is unused when typing…

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Stoppit you. :-) I already have a PS2, and people keep tempting me to buy a GameCube. *don'tneeditcan'tjustifyitARGH*. No doubt I'll cave eventually - there's a couple of games in particular which are slated to only come out on GameCube which look really that good (as in, Rez-esque good)...

(It does have the best exclusive games of any of the three major formats - Metroid Prime, Super Monkey Ball, the forthcoming F-Zero GX and Viewtiful Joe...)

Bah to the hayfever - I hope that it improves (i.e goes away) soon.

On the attracting insects front, a couple of nights ago I was up late with the light on. This cause me to have an unexpected wasp, which proceeded to buzz round the light fitting in an unapproachable fashion. Lucky you with the alternative. Or not, until the blister goes down!

Ah, console thumb. I first experienced it when Tony hired a copy of Super Mario Kart - by the end of the day each of us had a 'B' neatly embossed in his thumb. Curiously, all newer controllers have smooth buttons.