and the beat goes on...

and the beat goes on.

Managed to finally get my dissertation printed via laser colour printer free of charge (shock-horror! esp. where Brunel Uni is concerned, anyway). Just had to supply the paper to print it on - and that I did, through Brunel Uni's reams of paper they have lying around in offices (shock-horror! etc.)
And then I put it into binding - metal spiral binding (similar to those you find on monthly calendars).
Had a pleasant chat with the lady working at the binding place - talked about working abroad and holidays and such like travels.

It was wet, yet not miserable, day today. I think that I was pretty grateful for the chill in the air after yesterday's horrific heatwave. Apparently, there was a thunderstorm at 6am (Friday morning) but I was out completely - slept like a log and woke up around 9am to the sound of my alarm. Pain in the arse especially as it was a nice morning to stay curled up in bed. Was supposed to go with Usman (hall's mate) to see someone about some papers, but turned out it wasn't going to happen. So I could've slept in, but I suppose getting up at 9 had its good side. I think...

Oh and yesterday, Usman and I managed to get myself signed up onto Xbox Live - have only just bought it as we've recently got broadband at home. Although being at uni might seem contradictory, I've signed up here because MS are giving away free games to those who register. Bargain, I thought.
Yeah sorry, probably gonna be talking about games for most of this post - so you can come back another day if you want.
Played a bit of Tom Clancy Rainbow Six demo, although the demo seems to contain everything you need to play online (has other playable parts included) - so it seemed pretty nice of them to give that away. Shot people and chatted aimlessly (and vice versa) - was all very good fun.
Tried to play Outrun2 but there weren't any servers or people playing it - must not be that good then.

I'm a bit of a games fanatic - well, I was years ago - but it kinda died down when I was at uni (more interesting things to do, like go to pub), and now it's picking up again. Probably because there's not much to do around here in Brunel. Did I tell you that I bought GTA: San Andreas for the Xbox? Well, I did (a while back) - and I've managed to finish it - that game was/is ridiculously addictive for no apparent reason.

This has reminded me of the time Nav and I attempted to make a website on reviewing computer games - our own reviews on a load of games we had access to. We wanted to go through a load of Dreamcast games but I think we just ended up playing Rez (go check it out - also on PS2 - it's unbelievably awesome). Check it:

www.gamesrant.co.uk

Forza Motorsport (Xbox) looks promising on Xbox Live - would like to try that out some time - was playing it today and was it was fun. The thing I like about this game (and that of MSR and PGR1&2) is that you get to race normal street cars - well, souped up ones, but street cars nontheless. Like the VW Golf (looks like a Mark 3 or 4, I forget) or the Audi TT. Cars that you can actually obtain in real life without having to rob the bank.

Might have a whirl on The Bard's Tale (PC) - it's got some great dry humour and the game itself isn't too bad either. Oh right, that'll do - I've loaded it up now so I'm off to play.

--steven