April was actually a rather angry time as I recall as there was so much work to do and so little time to dedicate to anything else really, and as a result I actually wrote very little and when I did, it wasn’t overly clever. Yet what was written was border-line world class.

Granted I started writing about the year that was back in January, but a year’s review doesn’t finish at March and well seeing as it’s been such a long time since I’ve written great amounts, why not carry on?

The month kicked off with the special appearance on Gamers with Jobs with a great many things were discussed such as cross-gaming between the Xbox and PC thanks to Universe at War and Petroglyph’s Chris Ainsworth was along to talk about that aspect of things, but also various other enterprises were afoot including, and it’s hugely surprising that it’s still in there, there is talk about how people will be drawing naughty man bits with the Nintendo Wii.

However it still burns that I was the only one on the thing who sounds like he was buried alive and was waiting for Skippy to find help. I’m still wanting a return visit to the airwaves with the GWJ crew but alas my time from this moment on will be confined to random interval audio emails. Who knows, right? (He says with a nervous twitch and constant scratching of the arms)

But that was only the beginning.

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Yes, at long last the broadband was brought back online today, which made for huge raping of the DSL for various updates, games and other things which are best left alone at the best of times….err….

I suppose that once you’ve gotten used to using the net for most things these days, internet shopping, online gaming, email death threats, to have that taken away for a great length of time, you realise how much you actually depend upon it. And worryingly it was only made obivous how many things rely on a net connection in order to work.

During the offline period at home, I couldn’t play any games from my steam account despite parting with the cash for quite a number, only Left 4 Dead and Prince of Bel-Air, no Persia, still worked, the rest wanted to check on the steam servers for some reason. Makes me wonder if those who remain offline will get the most out their machines and how long it will be before everything will rely on the internet to work. Even our kettles….

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And fresh on the heels of the Sony product you don’t want from the Onion, today while at work I was witness to a very very strange video; a turtle humping a shoe.

I’m not even sure what this falls under; is it naughty as it involves a living thing humping? But then again it’s not exactly graphic hard-core as only the Germans can make, being the fact that the only people likely to get a thrill out of it is either Rolf Harris of Animal Hospital fame, or Bill Oddie.

But even if you don’t watch and just listen, it’s the noise from the turtle which is the funniest;

Just….well….I’m not even sure I can say share this with other people. Campers, it’s probably best if you move along and try to forget this whole thing.

Granted this post contains yet another “Watch this video thing I found” which most people abhor about many blogs on the internet, instead preferring to read material worth of Shakespeare himself (well anyone can have a go to do better than him, after all, he’s dead) but it’s one of those which will actually make sense to so many people.

(Taken from the Onion.)

Mind you, I did have second thoughts about the “pushing buttons” job I do for a living if this is what we will have to end up doing at some point….

It’s been difficult with the Interweb at home since the move, missing out on various things such as romping through the glens killing zombies, watching questionable things on the BBC IPlayer, and actually writing on the blog about various enterprises of late since the move.

That and Call of Duty: World at War broke on me with the latest patch like a lot of other people, I had to change the sound settings under Vista 64-bit to use 16-bit 44100MHz or something for the speakers to output sound from the game. Of course we are still assured that a fix will be forth coming. LIES!

I suppose still coming to terms with the new place and the opportunities it presents will take time, along with recouping the lost billions being spent on just living, still feels like: What now?

Anyway it appears my time is once again up and I shall away to fight with Ash against the evil dead. God I love those films.