Man I was so tired on Friday night, I got home, knocked up some Gnocchi with Stilton, sat down to eat, and within minutes of finishing eating I'd drifted off next thing I knew it was like 10pm, upon waking I plugged into Fifa08 and did some online action, was pretty good, I played it in Pro Mode, so you only control one player for the whole match, played 3, lost 2 one 1... it was kinda cool in a strange way, in so much as first game went to penalties... bearing in mind on my side was 8 other people I don't know from all over the world.... goes to penalties, I'm playing with Fabergas, I'm the fifth penalty... and I did a David Batty and the keeper saved it.. I lost us the game, I was gutted, can now imagine how the real football stars feel when they lose to a penalty shoot out… but in the third game, I scored one and made one so that made up for the bad first game. We won 3 -1 in the end.

Saturday was the usual market in the morning and then a day of mild house chores and plenty of V+ catching up along with looking out for the Barnet score in the F A Cup against, Bristol Rovers, we lost 0 - 1 in the end, which included us missing a penalty....oops....

I spent some time on the plenty of fish website, and sent out a few messages, though I don't expect many, if any replies, but it does amuse me how many women who have a go about people not replying to messages and saying blokes are rude, but yet whenever you send them a message they don't reply, and then there's always the classic when you send a message to break the ice saying something like... "Hello, how you doing? So what have you been up to this weekend and what you got planned for the week ahead?" which let's face it is a pretty easy set of questions to answer... the reply you get back is... "I'm Fine"...... then A T M..... (A Tumbleweed Moment)... annoying or what.....

People will sit there and say, "Yeah but that's not original"... but please, what's the point of me taking the time reading through your 15 paragraph profile come up with something original when you can't even reply to a basic question.... whenever you do make an effort with a descent original ice breaker all you get back is...."Thanks for the message, take care...", right now I think the dating game sucks, but that said, one of my really good pals, is in Morocco meeting his girlfriend.............. for the first time........ he met her online and after a year of, on and off communication they decided to give it a go just before Christmas, but this week is their first proper time together. He text me last night, all seems well and they are def an item so to speak..... so wishing him all the best in this fledgling long distance relationship, I sincerely hope it works for him...CSI NY was kicking it this weekend, quality episode.

Sunday was pretty much the same as Saturday, but instead of Fifa08, I plugged into Heavenly Sword and Man oh man, I have to say, what a game…. decided to start all over again on Heavenly Sword, but this time I disabled the sixaxis controller…. what a game…. Golden Axe eat your heart out…. people get hurt is this game, am loving it and the graphics are very very good… I would say they are up there with Drake’s, what an epic game…. By disabling the sixaxis control all the “after touch” (when you fire a weapon or throw something, you can steer it to the target) is done by the use of the joystick…. which begs the question, why have you added sixaxis control…. but gives people choice I guess, but I find joystick control a whole lot more precise… I’ve completed Chapter one, but need to go back and redo a few levels so that I can collect more coins and the more you collect the more combos you get and trust me you need all the combos you can get… I’m coming towards the end of Chapter Two; just about to enter a massive fight with one of the evil guy’s henchmen... well it’s a woman in fact... Ms Whiplash… but between me and her are her personal guards, looks like about 50+….. I guess if someone is good at Tekken and Soul Blade (as in they can remember and execute combos without thinking to much about it) then they will be pretty good at Sword esp the boss levels… I guess I’ll have to fight the bad guy’s son at some stage too, but I’m guessing his quite slow and lumbering so the speed stance and range stance will be good against him, but when he attacks I’d have to switch to Power Stance to block him…. When you think about it, the game is pretty technical; it’s not just a hack and slash game… There were times when I was surrounded and you’d have to used the range stance to keep them all at bay… then you’d single say two or three together, go at them with the power stance to knock them off their feet then in the ground kill on the speed stance to kill them off… but there were always a couple who you’d have to take on one on one in the power stance, but using the range and speed stance to soften them up…. always making sure you knew where the glowing pots were so you could replenish you energy…. It’s a bit like Drake's Fortune in that, I’ve walked in to this room with Whiplash and here guards have run out… when you look around the room there are three glowing pots… so you know it’s gonna be a hard level…. so I guess it’s a case of take out her guards without losing much health so you can save the three pots to use against her…. bit like Drake’s when you walked in a room you could gauge by how many guns there were in a room as to how hard the fight was gonna be…

One thing I did catch on Sunday was a recorded episode of Mission Impossible the original series... seriously people, if there is only one piece of nostalgia that you do this year and that is to plug into the original series of Mission Impossible, the show is from the late 60's early 70's but in my opinion each episode had much more to offer than Tom Cruise’s series of films and that was all without lots explosions and gun play, definitely worth looking at people. With that piece of advice ringing in your ears... Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl