Hi ho, Hi ho, it's back to work I go
And just like that, the holidays are over and it's back to work. Time really does fly. I realised that yesterday, we've been in our new house for a month. Already! Still loving it here. With it being on top of a hill, I think that I'm getting pretty fit now that I need to cycle uphill both ways to work. The downhill bits are fun though.
Cat and I have restarted watching Black Sails again and have gotten pretty far into it. So much so that Cat decided that we needed a pirate game and so she found Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag on special, which is pirate themed. I've been having a great time playing the pirate. For some reason although I knew that the Assassin's Creed franchise was popular, I never really checked it out. I think mainly because I got it confused with Hitman, which I tried once and didn't enjoy. I still remember as a child that one of my favourite games on the ZX Spectrum 48k was Tai Pan, where basically you played a "trader" in the Far East, and you could make money by trading, but you could also be a pirate. I never really found a good pirate game after that. Until now. This Assassins' Creed IV is a lot of fun.
Last year I discovered that my ice skates were too big for me, and so I got smaller ones. A guy at the rink kindly gave me a set of his old skates to see if they would fit, and they did (I donated my old ones to the club). Unfortunately, they weren't really suited to my feet, particularly my left foot. I figured that I just needed to break them in but it never really happened, and my left foot got worse and worse until it turned out that I had developed Sesamoiditis. It turns out that in your foot, just where you need to be for doing jumps and where you need to balance for spins, there're two wee bones shaped like peas. By the time I realised that the skates were not going to get broken in, my foot was damaged. I tried learning how to spin the other way on my right foot, but you still need to use both feet when skating, and after every session it was just getting worse. Eventually I went to a Podiatrist, who promptly banned me from spinning or jumping until my next appointment in February. I also managed to buy new skates (as a very expensive Christmas present to myself, but also necessary since the old skates were becoming torture). The new skates are Jacksons, and are wider. Turns out I have wide-ish feet. Apparently, many people in the Old Country do, because we tend to run around bare-foot as children (which isn't as common here). I'm still banned from jumping and spinning, but on Sunday (after taking a 3-week break), for the first time in a while, I wasn't limping after getting off the ice. So that's good.
Cat and I have restarted watching Black Sails again and have gotten pretty far into it. So much so that Cat decided that we needed a pirate game and so she found Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag on special, which is pirate themed. I've been having a great time playing the pirate. For some reason although I knew that the Assassin's Creed franchise was popular, I never really checked it out. I think mainly because I got it confused with Hitman, which I tried once and didn't enjoy. I still remember as a child that one of my favourite games on the ZX Spectrum 48k was Tai Pan, where basically you played a "trader" in the Far East, and you could make money by trading, but you could also be a pirate. I never really found a good pirate game after that. Until now. This Assassins' Creed IV is a lot of fun.
Last year I discovered that my ice skates were too big for me, and so I got smaller ones. A guy at the rink kindly gave me a set of his old skates to see if they would fit, and they did (I donated my old ones to the club). Unfortunately, they weren't really suited to my feet, particularly my left foot. I figured that I just needed to break them in but it never really happened, and my left foot got worse and worse until it turned out that I had developed Sesamoiditis. It turns out that in your foot, just where you need to be for doing jumps and where you need to balance for spins, there're two wee bones shaped like peas. By the time I realised that the skates were not going to get broken in, my foot was damaged. I tried learning how to spin the other way on my right foot, but you still need to use both feet when skating, and after every session it was just getting worse. Eventually I went to a Podiatrist, who promptly banned me from spinning or jumping until my next appointment in February. I also managed to buy new skates (as a very expensive Christmas present to myself, but also necessary since the old skates were becoming torture). The new skates are Jacksons, and are wider. Turns out I have wide-ish feet. Apparently, many people in the Old Country do, because we tend to run around bare-foot as children (which isn't as common here). I'm still banned from jumping and spinning, but on Sunday (after taking a 3-week break), for the first time in a while, I wasn't limping after getting off the ice. So that's good.