Uncharted

Started playing Uncharted last night, thought to myself 'Yeah, this is pretty cool, I'll play it again tomorrow.' Booted it up first thing this morning, and I can only remember once breaking to eat lunch before beating it. It's like a playable Indiana Jones, arse-kicking archeology at its finest. Best part is though, the first game is also suppost to be the worst. Already cracked into the second one, I think i know what I'll be doing tomorrow.

In fact, the only disappointing thing about my day was personally soul crushing. Jamie and I went to Lidl to do some shopping at the beginning of the week and spotted a ground coffee related bargin. We nabbed double the usual amount of coffee we get in a week for only a little more than what we typically get. Filled up a pair of our decanters with the grounds and prepped myself for a nice strong brew in the cafetiere. It was eerily easy to plunge, never a good sign. Took one sip and it was like sipping blended pillows.

Jamie's on holiday too, so now I have all this crap coffee to drink alone. Cheers.

Customize your own pizzas people

Here's a novel idea for all those students who love delivery pizzas but realize that they are running out of money from ordering too many delivery pizzas. Customize your own! Seriously, buy a cheap frozen one from literally any supermarket, take it home, scrounge around in your fridge and add whatever you want to it! Onions, peppers, sweetcorn and olives? You betcha. And man, it just tastes so much better when you realize you have cheated the pizza guys out of a lot of your cash.

Jamie has gone on a trip, practically around the whole of the UK for his time off work, which leaves me with his PS3 and all the Uncharted games - its going to be a good week.

Improv Jazz

I found out that home-made coffee cake goes down really well with black coffee and also iced coffee. Sat down with this fine cuisine to enjoy more Band of Brothers with Jamie and Mark. Every episode we finish is followed by loud sighs of fulfillment and a session of quietly muttering 'So bloody good.'

We hit the open mic at our local yesterday. Jamie put his name down to play but this week was especially busy. 'Dr Jazz' typically headlines every Tuesday night with a series of harmonica and wash-board solos for about an hour, then he hands over to some younger folks to play. A rare treat came from a young man who called Dr Jazz back onto the stage for a blues freestyle session, to me, that was music in it's rawest and most unique of forms. In the corner of my eye, I saw an audience member bust open a large case, revealing her saxophone and started to jam along side them. She was called on stage immediately for a sax solo and she blew the house down. The cheers of delight were infectious.   

Big shop, big fail

Sat Jamie down to start playing one of my all time favourite games: Tales of Symphonia. Which he is (I think) very much enjoying at the moment. Also went on our big weekly shop, it was only a few hours later that I heard a call from Mark downstairs, braying for toilet paper, that I realised I forgot something quite vital. Guess who's dashing out tomorrow for TP?

Critical food levels

Lazy day part 2. Finished The Last of Us and had a very pleasant conversation with Jamie about it. As I was approaching the endgame, it took a very different direction to what I expected, especially for a video game. Initially what I was doing at the end really bothered me and even made me quite grumpy. But later I realized it was all adding up to a very mature and impressive ending. Very pleased that I got the chance to play it.

Now that most of the housemates are back, I can do a weekly shop as the mass of food we buy for a week is a lot more than I can individually carry. We are at quite critical levels of nosh, I have been living off coffee, beer and custard creams for a little while. Employing the assistance of Jamie 'lift and shift' Creed to assist in the shopping haul tomorrow.

The Lazy of Us

I have earned this lazy day. Last week was very long indeed, getting all my uni work done and strolling in the rain for kitchen equipment. Those times have passed, I am free. Free to sit on the sofa and play The Last of Us until my eyeballs ached, but then I just nursed my pain with beer and continued to play. Plus it was just me at home for virtually the whole day, so I didn't even feel guilty about goofing off! I could sing as loud as I wanted to while making lunch!

As I write this, I realized one downside of having a lazy day, I have no pyjamas to change into as I simply haven't changed out of them.

Masterful Music

After handing in my uni project, I had only one other must-do job for the evening. Pick up our new magnetic knife block from Dunelm Mill. We reserved it online, to our dismay we found that they don't deliver. I decided to walk it.

It begins raining moments after I start walking, I still had another 45 minutes worth of walking to do. I braved it along side 'Trouble Will Find Me.' An album I have had in my collection for ages but for whatever reason, I never really got it. Until today that is. Walking in the rain and listening to this, unexpectedly incredible music, was a near religious experience for me. I suddenly developed compassion for the human race, a sense of well being, and even though I was soaked to the bone, I just wanted the rain to hit me harder. When the album finished I tried to find a suitable follow up to it for the walk home. I couldn't find one. I got the bus home. The knife block now rests in our kitchen as a subtle reminder of the psychical and metaphorical journey I took today.