Entertainment Centres of Bristol

Went around a few key entertainment stops around Bristol over the course of the day. First up was VR Star, a little VR booth tucked away at the top of Cabot Circus. Previosuly Mark and I played around in the VR headspace with the Sony headsets, but now we got a chance to sample some other tech and more importantly, some other games. I got to try a motorbike game which felt a little bit clunky and gimmicky, but was a lot of fun for the 7 minutes it lasted for. Any longer on that one and it would have unraveled a bit. After that I stuck with a sci-fi 'kill all robots' style wave defense game with guns! Using both hands I got to go around and shoot robots in the face with my akimbo pistols and that was good stuff.

Then the Birthday train didn't stop for Rebecca as we met up with a few friends that couldn't make it to the pub yesterday. We headed down together to Chance and Counters to play a few board games and that's always a fun time. I think I'm a little worn out now after such a busy 'out and about' period, I'm looking forward to tomorrow when I can focus on editing up my next video and eat some of Rebecca's Birthday cake.

Happy Birthday Rebecca 2018!

For Rebecca's Birthday we started the day off right, with cooked eggs and a late morning viewing of Back to the Future - very easy going to begin with. From there though, things really got going, we headed up to Wahaca on Park Street for a mighty Mexican Lunch and some free Birthday churros!

After digesting all that we spent some time with the things Rebecca loves most: Cats. Bristol has a lovely little cat cafe where you can have a coffee while stroking and playing with a variety of cats. I started off quite reserved, but I ended up on the floor playing around with a few of them.

Those were all the big activities, after that we had a small dinner and headed out to a nearby pub with some friends to round off the evening. I think Rebecca rung in her 23rd really well and I feel incredibly lucky to be there to share it all with her. Here's a quick snap of her I got after leaving the cat cafe - it started snowing then too so it was a cute moment.

Happy Birthday Rebecca!

Surprise Cake

Surprised Rebecca by baking her my renowned coffee cake in preparation for her Birthday tomorrow. Couldn't have hidden it from her this evening so I just kinda presented it to her when she got home and she was delighted. In between rounds of baking I finally finished up writing my next video. Need to do one more round of proof reading and editing quickly before I can start producing the video but I'm really eager to pop something new on my channel now.

Terrible Tudors

Waved goodbye to Rebecca's parents after a massive hotel breakfast, and a brisk walk along the Bristol Harbour. Rebecca and I just spent the rest of our Sunday veg-ing out which was very welcome after a busy yesterday.

We wanted to watch a film before the end of the day though, and Rebecca had a Tudor craving so we settled on The Other Boleyn Girl and it felt like serving a life sentence. I figure that it's a little hard for me to get into a film where a character doesn't have noble virtues, however humble they may be, but here, every character was contemptible. Wasn't my cuppa tea.  

Up and Down Town

Eating, drinking and walking was all we did today. Rebecca folks came down and we took them up and down park street before settling into a nearby pub. Then we hit Zero Degrees for a pizza and a pint and took the scenic route back. The busy day culminated with tiramisu at ours. I just had a green tea that took me to my happy place and I'm now very, very sleepy.

Games, Charity and Tiramisu

Had a craving to go outside for a bit today so I met up with Mark for a cheeky Friday lunch at Spice Up Your Life, a street food curry place which is pretty dang great. May be heading out with him sometime next week to sample some more VR for some techie fun times. Watch this space for a dorky picture of me with a VR headset soon.

Daniel flagged up one of the best gaming deals I think I've even seen. The Humble Bundle put up Dark Souls 3 (A game I've been wanting for a while now) up for the lowest rice I've ever seen it along with a few extra goodies. Plus, some of the money goes to charity, feeling pretty good about myself AND I've got something good to play over the weekend.

Rebecca's folks are popping down tomorrow too and as a small way of saying thank you to them for letting me stay at theirs for the filming last week, I've made a tiramisu! It's chilling in our fridge right now and I've got a feeling this will be a good one (I know because I licked the bowl). Already looking forward to serving some of it up.

Anxious Emailer

Email writing took up the bulk of my day, or rather worrying about writing emails. Long story short, I may have two potential upcoming jobs where the dates could clash - I want to do both of them if possible but I still don't have confirmation on one of them so it's a little hard to make plans. Had to call my Mum up for a little life advice session, but we came up with a plan and I sent off a good little email which yielded a really positive response. It was the best possible outcome of the situation and it just goes to show that I often worry about a whole load of nothing sometimes.

Rebecca came back flaunting the results of her DiSC test which she took at work to get a better understanding of her personality. It did sound a bit like a precursor to a Scientology thing at first, but while she was reading back the report it was hard not to agree with a few points it made about her - she ended up in the 'C' band in case anyone familiar with the test is interested.

And in other news, I bought a silicone spatula after hearing I was actually going to be paid a little more for my last job than I expected. I'm going to be making tiramisu tomorrow so I'll need every bit of help I can get scraping the bowl clean. I mean I could do it with my fingers, but then I'd just have to eat all the tasty bits leftover in the bowl... And boy, wouldn't that be a shame.