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So Pizza asked me to contribute to the blog despite me not having anything to talk about.

There is the very real possibility that reading this unstructured post of random thoughts may bore you to tears but Boss Pizza tells me he expects this done by the time he comes back from the pizzeria (a pizza shop or Pizza's house?)

Let's jump into real life first. Monday-Friday wake up at 7am shower-shave-shit then it's off to the hospital for a day's work to pay the bills. Currently working as a Biomedical Scientist in the NHS. My deprtment is Microbiology/Virology so any of the superbug stuff you read in the papers (MRSA, C. diff, Noro Virus) is the stuff I mess with. From testicle skin scrapings to faecal examinations- if your body can make it I can work with it. For all the whining I do about it it's actually a pretty good job. It can be immensly satisfying when you follow a patient's sample through from collection to results but you do need a tough skin- it can be pretty depressing looking at some of the patient details- 5 year olds with leukaemia, 30-something women with breast cancer, geriatrics who likely won't be alive by the time you finish with their sample... MEDIC!



I don't get back home until 6pm which I guess is the reason my TF2 activity has been pretty poor for a long while. With alty and cube being really active and reliable and Ads being online most evenings it's neigh-on impossible to get a good run in the team. When it was at its worst in February as I was really keen to play but couldn't, I think it's fair to say I threw my toys out the pram- "LET ME PLAY YOU'RE ALL SHIT". Since then I've realised how unfair it is to ask to take the place of someone who plays more than me so like a respectable ninja I've dropped back into the shadows. It's been 3 weeks now since I've played with wotr2 but I'm still up for playing. I think being a backup is the best I can hope for given my (in)activity and inability to say which nights I'll be here. At work we've recently arranged to play football on Monday nights and I'm usually at my girlfriend's on a Tuesday and Thursday which makes Wednesday and Friday the only weeknights I'm around.


In those 3 weeks I've hopping across different games. Me and phoenix/penix/Josh from NS days play a fair bit of Dawn of War 2. It's an RTS game light on strategy which makes it easy for us to hop on for a couple of games. Also bought Unreal Tournament 3 after the free weekend. The netcode is shockingly bad but it looks jaw-droppingly beautiful. Also had a game of NS with frG's adopted Spanish team. Funnily enough playing DoW2 has given me a better scope of what's needed to command well, despite having played NS since release day. Still- the game is dead so I don't think I'll be going back to it. Oh, and got in touch SpaceJesus/esJ. Pretty out of the blue but he's into EVE online these days. I've been persuaded to give it a go using the Steam trial- a recent update has changed the start for new players so I'll see how it goes. Finally, I'll get back into Quake Live since it went public. All these games should keep me interested when I'm home alone and bored!

Interesting final note- it seems Cube was harshly banned in the ETF2L for a forum post. It wasn't that bad- admins must have been on their period or something but as the thread on the sandman made the head admin quit heads were bound to roll. With his 3 months ban this will free up a soldier slot that I could compete for. Unfortunately (for me) the only team left to play in that league is veAre.black. The game shold be a walkover regardless of who we field which is unforunate for me!


sherpa out.