This post never really had a chance

I'm making an effort to get this post done earlier than usual (around 7pm) for several reasons: I feel I can put more effort into them if I'm not under time constraints, I need to get to bed earlier (woke up at 11am again today) and Blogger's having an outage around the time when I normally post.

That last one's probably the biggest factor.

I've actually been a little distracted now, what with having to go and eat and then read some funny stuff on the internet. It's still kind of early though.

You know, it's kind of hard to concentrate on writing something coherent when someone's playing Halo 3 in the background.

It gets even harder when you're the one playing Halo 3, which is what I've been doing for the past half hour or so now. Ah, well. If you can't beat 'em...


So, preamble aside, what have I got for today?

First, another video of Will Wright demo-ing Spore. The more I see of this game, the more I want it. The more I want to build my own gaming rig just so I can play it in my bedroom. Then I realise that by the time it comes out, I may well be heading off to university, at which point I reconsider and start wanting to buy a nicely spec'd laptop that can handle it.


Okay, you remember how I said I was doing this early and that it was about 7 o'clock then? Course you do, as far as you're concerned, it was just a few paragraphs ago. Well, for me, that was over 3 hours ago. So I need to get this wrapped up and posted and then go back to reading a rather fascinating article on the development of Donkey Kong Country in Retro Gamer writing some more important stuff.

Stuff that doesn't have a time limit on it. Like the 20 minute time limit I have on this, because Blogger is about to go down for maintenance. Sure, it is just meant to be 10 minutes of downtime. But it may well be that Blogger and I have different definitions of “10”, as has been shown before, in similar planned outages.

So I'm calling it quits for tonight and heading off to bed. No, seriously. I mean it this time. I've wasted too much of today so I'm just going to get some sleep and make a fresh start tomorrow. Why would I lie about that?

Oh, yeah. The lazy unreliable jerk thing. Nuts to that. I'm tired.

And would someone, probably someone with no life whatsoever, mind counting up how many times I've mentioned that I'm tired or rounded off blog posts by saying that I'm going to bed since I started this endeavour? I'm just curious.

Thanks, much appreciated. You weirdo.