Last Tuesday we got a new PS3 game. On Saturday we got our bass guitar fixed. These two facts are related ( Read more... )

The new Rock Band game came out on my birthday! :) It's a return to more of the pre-Guitar Hero gameplay from Amplitude which was a game Harmonix released about 10 years ago - I remember we were playing it on the New Year's holiday we took with Rachel, Ellen, Gordon & Ainsley and that was New Year '03 iirc. So there are no fancy controllers ( Read more... )

I did at least get one bit of consumerism done for the week, even if I didn't buy any of the things I was dithering about. But food processor that looked adequate & sufficiently cheap came back into stock at amazon, so I bought it. So some point after next weekend I can try some of the recipes/meals in the Jamie Oliver book. I've kinda decided ( Read more... )

I've got plans to post a great big round-up post of 2010, having made it a whole year with updates nearly every year, but it's taking me longer to put it together than I'd expected, so it might be a while before that sees the light of day. It's interesting looking back at stuff to write it, tho (and god knows it'll end up mostly for my own benefit ( Read more... )

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Went out to A&P's yesterday - Gordon & Avi were down from Edinburgh visiting them & we and Jacqui & Stu were invited to come along and see them. It was an afternoon/evening full of PS3 games, unsuprisingly :) We brought our move controllers/games along with us, to demo them for A's benefit mostly. Although it also worked on Stu - who got quite ( Read more... )

Large chunks of time have been eaten up by Rock Band 3 since the game arrived on Thursday ... so much that I was seeing note tracks behind my eyes last night when I was going to sleep! Finally got the RB2 song export sorted out this morning, so now we have 447 tracks (and counting, I think there's a lot of DLC we'll want on the way). That should ( Read more... )

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Rock Band 3 arrived yesterday \m ( Read more... )