Sunday In San Andreas

Today, was pretty much more of the same, except for the usual Sunday ritual of the making of the bacon butties, which were eaten while watching "The Lazarus Experiment from the series 3 box set of Doctor Who.

The villain of this story was played by Mark Gatiss, making him one of the few people to have written for and acted in Doctor Who. Mark Gatiss is mostly known as a member of "The League Of Gentlemen", however he is also the writer of "The Unquiet Dead" for series 1 and "The Idiot's Lantern" for series 2 of Doctor Who as well as several Doctor Who novels for Virgin New Adventures and BBC Books.

Afterwards, I fired up the PC and Steam announced that all Grand Theft Auto games for the PC were available for £25ish and that seemed a reasonable enough deal and handed over my credit card details and then started downloading them.

As we were still full from the bacon butties at breakfast, we decided to skip lunch, apart from large bag of thai sweet chilli flavour crisps while watching our movie for today, "Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer", which was enjoyable enough though I prefer the first film.

Not long after we finished watching the film, it was time for my wife to go to her laptop and speak to her mum (or in her case "mom") back home in the USA via skype with webcam. I, of course, headed off to the computer room and tried my morning's purchases.

The first game I tried, after the games had finished downloading, was "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City" which was my favourite of the GTA games for the Playstation 2. Well, the PC version is enjoyable enough, but the mouse control seems to be over-sensitive and the game crashed a few times.

However, most of the rest of the day and evening was spent playing "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" which I also have for the Playstation 2, but as I got it at a point where I hardly wanted to spend my time in front of a console and so have hardly played it. This game is less prone to crashing, though it did once, and the mouse control works a heck of a lot better. I played through a few of the early missions, but generally ate, worked out at the gym and "wasted" rival gang members.

During dinner (pizza!) we watched "42", yet another episode of Doctor Who from the series 3 box set which featured former Eastenders actress Michelle Collins" as the captain of the sun-bound spaceship.

I went back to "GTA: San Andreas", before heading to bed to watch the first episode of the 2nd series of "The Mighty Boosh" and then sleep.

My 2nd IT job

My main job is providing technical support for a small firm and my 2nd job is providing technical support for family which is, naturally, generally unpaid.

After a long and boring day at work, me and my colleagues were released for our 2 days and a few hours of freedom before our Monday return.

I was collected from work by my father, with my wife "riding shotgun" and driven to my parents house, about 15 minutes drive away. On arriving at my mum & dad's house, I was greeted by mum and I then proceeded to their PC in the conservatory with the task of installing Skype, their webcam and generally maintenance. Pretty easy stuff fortunately.

Although I say such work is generally paid, I considered the beer, wine and roast beef dinner with tons of roast potatoes and yorkshire pudddings as more than adequate recompense!

My wife and I were then driven back home around 10.30pm where we watched several episodes of series 1 of "The Mighty Boosh", which makes no sense but is enjoyable nonetheless