2008: Time for an update!

Like the rhyming title? You better. I took me a full three seconds.

Yup. I’m back. Did you miss me? Did you even notice I was gone? Probably not. The internet is big, this blog isn’t.

It seems the last time I posted was in November, so I decided to give my blog the kiss of life it deserved and actually pick up the keyboard and write something. So here it is.

first order of business, is that I got a comment on my Remember piece. A real one. This is a big day for me. My first ever comment. I’m over the moon. Really I am. Wow. The comment was by raincoaster and said:

“Well? He posted his.”

(Yes I know you can go see the comment for yourself, but this is a big deal for me, leave me alone.) I assume by “Well?” raincoaster means “Where’s the response?” which is a good question that needs answering. When I saw the MadV video on Youtube, the thoughts that ran through my head were “What a fantastic idea, I’m going to respond. Even though I do hate the sound of my own voice.” The response date drew nearer, and I had prepared a short speech to deliver to the Youtube masses. I had recorded and re-recorded, and the response date drew nearer still. November 5th came and I decided “I’ll upload it later,” by midday, “uploading it later” was still the intention, and by the evening, later was still when I would upload it, and by the time later had passed, I hadn’t uploaded it, and November 5th had ended. I didn’t want to be the person that everyone makes fun of for wandering in late, so I didn’t upload it on November 6th either, eventually, the video file for the response eventually got lost in the shadowy abyss of deletion, never to rear it’s ugly head again. Now that I’ve lost what little credibility I had, I can get one with the rest of the post.

Fast forward to December. BANG! It’s exam time. My mock GCSEs which I had been revising like crazy for. I’m one of the unlucky few that gets to take my exams in the Special Needs department of school, because I am entitled to extra time (which I hardly used.) There isn’t really much I can say about the exams, except they were easier than I thought they would be, and it was so cold in the exam room that a few of us were declared dead, and the room got turned into a cryogenics lab.

Then before I even had time to collect my thoughts, it was Christmas. A time of giving and receiving. Mainly receiving. I received an Xbox 360 core system, with The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Saints row, Call of Duty 3, and Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter (reviews for those later.) New Year zipped by, and the rest as they say is history, which is a good job really because this post was starting to get a little long, and I find that for some reason people don’t like reading on the internet.