Aftwe Yesterdays attempt..........

Well , after yesterdays "fun" with trying to see if I could place a posting via my PDA, today's will be a little more "thoughtful", a little more featured.

After the events of last week excitement of last weekend, the following week has been pretty much of an anti-climax.

   Although Laura is no longer in hospital, she still isn't quite her normal self just yet, although you can see a good progression over the week.   

Liam has just meandered on as he always seems to do, and my self and Cathy have suffered form some semblance of what Laura had last week.

There is not really much more to say.

We are now a 3 console family. We have had a Play Station 1 for several years now, and that now lives in Tilly's bedroom (she loves playing Crash Bandicoot), and we also have a PlayStation 2, which was Liam's present the Christmas before last. But in the last couple of weeks we have brought an XBox off my Sister (her partner gets through "gadgets" at a fair rate of knots), and we have parked that one in our bedroom.

Now maybe it's my age (no comments please - I am 40 now you know ), and maybe it's because I don't spend, seemingly, every waking hour playing the machine, but I just seem to spend more time on restarts than I do playing the game.

I tried to play a game called Halo last night, spent a good hour getting no where. Liam comes in from the circus, waltz's straight in with:

"No Dad, try this" and "For God's sake Dad, shoot now, shoot now"

I /We made more progress through that game in five minutes than I had done in the previous hour (I got as far as getting stuck on the starting level). I know a lot of it is practice, some of it is intuition, but sometimes I wonder if I'm a "Console Dunce". I can never really get to grips with any game, even the ones that my kids gloat at as "that is SOOOOOO easy".

But then again, I always think there is something better to do.

God Bless

Dave