tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-977684764667858073.post-5193941058564236802007-11-30T01:16:00.000Z2007-11-30T02:01:33.494Z<span style="font-weight: bold;">Old age...</span><br /><br />After doing my ankle about 6 weeks ago (trying to be all youthful rollerblading in Hyde Park), I thought I'd knackered my back on Tuesday. Turns out it was probably a knock, or a bit of muscle tenderness as it seems to have died down on its own after 2 days. When is science giving me new body parts then?<br /><br />I also did my birthday dinner in London, in advance, with Mr. Burtonini, and he's feeling the old age just as well as I am: he didn't know the young band I got him <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Not-Here-Please-Stick-128mb/dp/B000X25FG4/">a mixtape</a> of, despite them being in the Guardian's guide 6 months ago. And it's all MP3s on there, no crummy DRM'ed audio formats.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">...and diseases</span><br /><br />Thanks to the Italian man mentioned above and his lovely (and young!) wife, I caught <a href="http://uk.guides.ign.com/guides/856529/index.html">Ninja Gaidenitis</a>. The game is hard as hell, but sometimes I'm a dumbass, which makes the adventure parts a bit trickier. I remember when it was just a bad <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinobi_%28series%29#Shinobi_.281987.29">Shinobi</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja_Gaiden_%28series%29#Ninja_Gaiden_.28Master_System.29">on the SMS</a>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_2o81e3u4ZFU/R09rF_NkWHI/AAAAAAAAAG8/cnXS_U02aqg/s1600-R/landing_bg.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_2o81e3u4ZFU/R09rF_NkWHI/AAAAAAAAAG8/8t0vEiujaIc/s320/landing_bg.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5138443450464884850" border="0" /></a><br />I'm at level 3 after a week of play, in contrast to the great, but too easy, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratchet_and_clank#Tools_of_Destruction">Ratchet and Clank</a> which I finished in 4 days (that's not continuous gameplay by the way).<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Update</span>: My <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/woking/default.stm">local team</a> beats your <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/g/gravesend_and_northfleet/7100608.stm">new-age web-based</a> <a href="http://gregdek.livejournal.com/18960.html">communist</a>/<a href="http://spevack.livejournal.com/37049.html">capitalist</a> <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/g/gravesend_and_northfleet/default.stm">idea of a football team</a>'s <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_conf/7116186.stm">butt</a>.hadesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14621847888418739807noreply@blogger.com6