Garrulous Geek

What marvellous technological leaps and bounds we make! What a brave new world we live in, that I can sit on the toilet and beat some Japanese guy at Tetris on my DS over some magical wireless Internet thing!

I've not written for a while... so here's a quick catch up.

Easter was good, pretty busy mind you. We went to Ali's mum's on Saturday and went to a friend's wedding in the afternoon which was pretty cool. Beth wore a very pretty dress and was very well behaved which was nice. In the evening we ate takeaway food from Tesco and watched Casino Royale with some wine, which was also nice. Great film that one. We stuck around for most of Sunday too, then headed back in the evening. My family on Monday - big get together for my sister's 21st... kinda weird little Libby being 21... I was married a year after that. How weird is that? Makes me feel old!

Tuesday and Wednesday off work for putting together IKEA furniture. We now have a huge cabinet in our front room... So big we can't even half fill it with all the stuff that's supposed to go in it.

Thursday and Friday... work.

We went to Formby yesterday for a walk and a picnic and a bit of a sit on the beach. The weather was surprising, such that I was utterly ill attired in my jeans... Still, I can't have been the only one surprised by the weather, as there were plenty of scallies leaping around the dunes in just their boxer shorts, which is truly a sight that should not be seen. Still, ill clad youths aside it was a nice day.

And today... church and another crisis of faith for me. Joy. My faith feels much too rational, and mechanistic, and not... faithy enough. I don't feel it. I don't believe in God because I've ever really experienced him, but just because it makes sense for God to exist, and for all that follows from there. It never seems to get from my head to my heart, as they say. I don't feel like I've been saved from anything, and I can't talk of any big change in my life as a result of God, so I can't really "sell" this to anyone, so evangelism is just completely out of the question.

Anyway. I'm not sure this is the right place for my ongoing faith disaster, so I'll draw this to a close.

In other news, Welcome To The Black Parade by emo whiners My Chemical Romance is a better song than it really should be. Or perhaps I just can't resist crap punk every once in a while.

I wonder if anyone responsible for getting The Sugababes and Girls Aloud to cover Walk This Way by Aerosmith for Comic Relief actually has any idea what the song is about.

Perhaps that's the comic bit, I don't know.

Ooh, look, another Weird Al Youtube linky... tres amusant if you're a computer geek like me.

I've just built a new computer. Dear goodness, it was a faff. I now have two very nice shiny PCs, one of which will hopefully soon be taking up it's station as my media center PC, sitting in pride of place in my living room to record TV shows, play DVDs and music, and generally be useful. I hope. The other is my general use and gaming rig, which proved to be quite an arse to get working for various reasons. Just about justifiable as I now have a pretty fast computer that should play just about any game that comes out this year (Bioshock... oooh!) and last a bit longer besides.

That being said, I think I'm tiring of PC gaming, not least because of the enormous hassle that building computers can be. It was all well and good when I was footloose and fancy free, with few commitments, and a reasonable chunk of disposable income. I could spend money on hardware, build my own computers, and it was actually quite fun to puzzle over why part X wouldn't work with part Y, and figure out a way to get everything working and have a wicked PC to play my games on. These days, I'm rather busier, and I'd rather spend my copious free time after work doing other things, not least the rather pressing issue of maintaining a family. I don't really have time to worry about why I can't get any VGA output from the PCI Express slot, or why that wireless card will work but the other won't, and just how much of this hardware will work in Linux anyway?

No... I don't really have time for this anymore. These days I want to sit down at a computer, read my e-mails, surf the net, then turn it off and play Mario on my DS. I suddenly understand the appeal of consoles... They. Just. Work. You put your game in, turn it on, play, then turn it off. No faffing about building your console from scratch, upgrading it every year, troubleshooting, fiddling with Windows trying to figure out what the hell it's playing it, or any of that hassle.

So, I think this might just be my last serious hardware upgrade. Next time I get a decent chunk of change, I think I'll be spending it on a Nintendo Wii, rather than putting myself through all this hassle again.

In other news, for those of you who care little for computers, here's an opinion of mine: American Idiot by Green Day is one of the greatest albums ever recorded.