November 2004

November seems like a heartbeat ago but actually ended three weeks ago as I write. The reason for the delay in writing a journal entry is at the end of November Kat and I went to Orlando for the best part of two weeks. More information on that in a separate journal entry to follow.

November was primarily a waiting month for the foresaid holiday. Looking back in my notes I see that November was the month I decided that I had decided that I had finished GTA3. I had completed all of the story missions and all but two of the side missions, the first being now impossible as opposed to virtually impossible, the second one hampered by the Playstation acting up a bit on the game. I am currently enjoying a period of non-Playstation time, and will pick up Vice City some time in the future no doubt and then San Andreas at some mad moment (or when it comes down in price).

It was the second of November that I completed the Nintendo 64 version of Tetris, a game that I have been working on for four or five years. It was a great feeling to have finally completed that!

The games seem like a lifetime ago, more recently than that I caught up with rael from Uberworld for the first time, in Birmingham and then just over a week later I met up with Raindog at a Chinese somewhere in Rednal (and a particularly nice meal it was with six or seven of Dave (Prometheus’s) friends there including Kat and myself.

My Monopoly collection swelled this month as well as I collected the Birmingham version and the Disney version. I couldn’t not have the Disney version in view of the forthcoming holiday and due to a pricing error at WHSmith I managed to get the set at half the marked price, walking away having paid the price you’d expect to pay for a standard monopoly set, how I managed to keep the smile from my face long enough to make it outside I’ll never know.

Plenty of shopping was done in November with much being bought for the trip, for birthdays and for Christmas. I seem to remember one Saturday with a rather heavy Disney monopoly set and atlas in tow in particular. Kat and I went to see the Christmas market and get a few things but the weather was not too nice to us hitting us with literally freezing winds and rain. Therefore we spent a lot of time in Starbucks and Waterstones instead. That reminds me I really must see if I can get a copy of that George Bush picture book…