It seems that at the moment almost everyone this summer is off doing exciting things. One of my friends is off exploring the African continent and climbing mountains, my cousin is learning to fly in New Zealand and even my sister gets to go to Scarborough followed by a trip to study the wildlife of the Savannah. Karma seems to hate me though (well Clare too as she is stuck with me, poor girl), as my great summer expedition was to Dantre hospital followed by a few weeks of lying around at home suffering. Right, now all the self pity is out of the way onto the post!
I keep promising a post all about Battlefield 2, however to do so i need to play the game a bit more than i have recently, ie: more than not at all. Thus i'm again putting it back at least a couple of weeks and so probably building it up as one of the most delayed blog post of all time. Try to think of it as a train trying to get to your station where the engineering works they keep apologising for over the announcement system consists of lying the track.
So the Olympics then. I not sure what it is, but i can never get truly excited about pretty much anything in the Olympics. I do enjoy watching it, however it lacks the anticipation factor of other great sporting events. Plus some of the events are quite clearly none-sports! *Cough* Dressage *Cough* I think it is my lack of understanding of the scoring system in a lot of them that turns me off them. Maybe the BBC should do a "Everything you wanted to know about the Olympics but were to scared to ask" feature. It would certainly increase my interest. Well apart from the heat stages in most of the running events and again with Dressage, which as we all know doesn't actually have a scoring system. I also think that the Olympics should bring in a more "international sports day" feel. Lets drop some of the endless number of different boating events in favour of a mums and dads race, the egg and spoon and sack race. Now they would draw the crowds!
The main problem i have with trying to write anything for this blog is that i come up with great stuff to write about all the time, however as soon as i get on here and typing i forget all of it. Thus i'm am going to attempt a brand new technique for getting at least some of this down. I like to call it, a note pad. As i type some of the elements of the Battlefield 2 post (try not to gasp too loudly), are currently sitting on my desk. I say sitting on my desk, they are in fact buried under several feet of other detritus. Luckily i have a degree in History and Archeology so i'll be able to dig down to find it and then give a full historical account.
Now i'm off to give Medieval 2 a go! As i just found out my PC can in fact run it and the internet security software's subscription ran out making the internet a dark and scary place.
I keep promising a post all about Battlefield 2, however to do so i need to play the game a bit more than i have recently, ie: more than not at all. Thus i'm again putting it back at least a couple of weeks and so probably building it up as one of the most delayed blog post of all time. Try to think of it as a train trying to get to your station where the engineering works they keep apologising for over the announcement system consists of lying the track.
So the Olympics then. I not sure what it is, but i can never get truly excited about pretty much anything in the Olympics. I do enjoy watching it, however it lacks the anticipation factor of other great sporting events. Plus some of the events are quite clearly none-sports! *Cough* Dressage *Cough* I think it is my lack of understanding of the scoring system in a lot of them that turns me off them. Maybe the BBC should do a "Everything you wanted to know about the Olympics but were to scared to ask" feature. It would certainly increase my interest. Well apart from the heat stages in most of the running events and again with Dressage, which as we all know doesn't actually have a scoring system. I also think that the Olympics should bring in a more "international sports day" feel. Lets drop some of the endless number of different boating events in favour of a mums and dads race, the egg and spoon and sack race. Now they would draw the crowds!
The main problem i have with trying to write anything for this blog is that i come up with great stuff to write about all the time, however as soon as i get on here and typing i forget all of it. Thus i'm am going to attempt a brand new technique for getting at least some of this down. I like to call it, a note pad. As i type some of the elements of the Battlefield 2 post (try not to gasp too loudly), are currently sitting on my desk. I say sitting on my desk, they are in fact buried under several feet of other detritus. Luckily i have a degree in History and Archeology so i'll be able to dig down to find it and then give a full historical account.
Now i'm off to give Medieval 2 a go! As i just found out my PC can in fact run it and the internet security software's subscription ran out making the internet a dark and scary place.
