I finished Grand Theft Auto 4 today. I did the typical thing for me, I played the game obsessively for about 40 hours (um… not in a row), and then got stuck very close to the end. When I get stuck for more than an hour on a game, I usually put it aside and then forget to go back to it for months, if ever (I’m looking at you here, Assassin’s Creed).

Not this time, though. I picked GTA4 up again, remained stuck at the same point for another couple of hours and then finally broke through and won. After the credits rolled I decided to try the multiplayer, which I’d heard was good, but got bored with it after two minutes or so. I don’t know… I just can’t find anything exciting in shooting people over the internet. I’m sorry, Team Fortress 2… it’s not you, it’s me.

I have done it.

I have seen Bullitt.

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I’m kinda interested in finding out more about Ron Gilbert’s new game, DeathSpank, which is described as a cross between Diablo and the Monkey Island series.

Speaking of which, here’s a US presidential candidate I could get behind:

I’m not enjoying myself at work much right now.

Today I had to set a digital watch for the CIO - fuck knows why. Getting really sick of being treated as his lapdog when it’s obvious he doesn’t respect me.

The farty man has moved into Giz’s spot for the next three weeks, so Giz will probably want to order a new seat and possibly some replacement carpet when he returns.

Coming down with something as well. Been sneezing a bit and generally feeling blah.

But enough whining, LittleBigPlanet is less than two months away!

Grats to Giz and Kym for Offspring Deux.

It’s arrived!

Cheers to Giz and Steve for silly photo-ness.

Ran out of coffee this morning. Not happy.

Well, to be exact, I ran out of ground coffee - there’s an entire kilo of beans in the freezer. I just don’t have any good way to grind them yet.

I may be forced to pull out the old hand grinder tomorrow morning - desperate times call for desperate measures. Bad coffee ahoy!

A really sweet audio interview with the 4th Ed D&D designers here. They seem switched on and responsive to feedback - I have high hopes for the future of 4E.

Today I made my final payment on my Macbook Pro. Hurray for stuff!

Of course, I won’t be buying a thing until late October when LittleBigPlanet comes out, due to the expense of the Vibiemme. Well, I guess I can afford a tamper, right..?

…apparently I can!

Today I picked up the espresso machine that I have been nattering to all and sundry about for the last few weeks. It’s a Vibiemme Domobar Super, a real workhorse of a machine. The problem is that the grinder doesn’t arrive until later this week and I also don’t have a tamper worth a damn, so the shots we have been making for ourselves are… rather inconsistent, despite all the advice given to us by Chris at Talk Coffee.

Here it is sitting next to the Nemox it is replacing. See if you can guess which is which.

Thanks to Joffa and Vetti for christening it with some Bodum thermo glasses!