The weather on Thursday did improve a little in the afternoon, but not enough to go out and do anything.<\/p>\n
Friday, again, was rubbish weather-wise. Basically, it drizzled all day, well until about 8:30pm anyway. So, I went back to the normal wet holiday activity of playing computer games.<\/p>\n
I finally finished Half Life 2: Episode One, which I had given up on a year ago when I reached the final “boss level” and got fed up (I hate the artificial boss levels in games). Well, that took me about an hour. I did try playing “Thief II” but got bored with the game-play 2\/3rds of the way through the first level. So, in the end I fired up Steam again and downloaded the original Half-Life along with the “Blue Shift” and “Opposing Force” expansion packs. Unfortunately, to save disk space on my previous laptop hard disk I have deleted all the saved games for Half-Life so I had to start from scratch again. Still, it kept me occupied for a few hours. I then turned to “Opposing Force” which, from what I can remember, I’ve not played before. Not too bad so far, though there are a number of areas where the player avatar gets stuck when lifts complete their journey, so it’s important to save just before pressing the button to start the lift.<\/p>\n
Today, Saturday, has started dull and grey. I do hope it cheers up a bit as tomorrow’s forecast to be really wet and horrid.<\/p>\n
Hmm.. I wonder why this year’s holiday journal is focused mostly on the weather…?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The weather on Thursday did improve a little in the afternoon, but not enough to go out and do anything. Friday, again, was rubbish weather-wise. Basically, it drizzled all day, well until about 8:30pm anyway. So, I went back to … Continue reading