It's now officially December 26. I'm watching the Holiday Special of "Have I Got News For You!", pure hilarity:

"The Large Hadron Collider was supposed to prove that there is no God. So far, a man has been killed by a magnet, there's been a radiation leak and I'm pretty sure a plague of locusts."

The 25th was a good day for me. My brother and I stayed up on the 24th and watched "Into The Wild", which I had bought in HMV the same day for only €6, so I ended up going to bee at 12.30am. I tried every trick in the book to get some shut-eye, including downing a mug of Horlicks, but to no avail. I eventually gave up at 4am and just waltzed downstairs to open my presents.

I first opened my brother's gift to me, a fantastic new velvet guitar strap and some mini colognes (I love cologne!). Next up was my biggest present, Guitar Hero World Tour. The drums were a little awkward to set up, but I ploughed on. Next I slapped in Resistance: Fall Of Man which turned out to be a big bag of "meh", but it'll probably get better. I only bought it so that I'm understand the backstory in Resistance 2 (which I also bought). After Resistance, I tried Fallout 3. You know when something just "feels right"? This felt so right. It's honestly one of the most stunning games I've played so far. Some of the animation could be better, particularly in the third-person view; is my character wearing the 'Hover Boots' from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time? I wish I could start Fallout again though, I killed The Overseer, let Blake's mom die and then I killed Blake afterwards to spare myself some guilt. Blake (my childhood bully, apparently) asked me to help his mom who was being attacked. I said no, to which he hurled comments like "sick, twisted bastard" at me. I eventually cracked and said I'd help to which he started crying and started apologizing for bullying me as a kid. I was too late and so he was distraught and blamed me... it's easy to get sucked into these things.

I also got various other bits n' bobs such as the colognes mentioned in my previous blog entry. My aunt got me a gift voucher for Modern Music, guitar pedal here I come. Another game I bought is Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, but the location of that, along with my new belt, is anyone's guess...

It turns out that I make really good roast potatoes, so that was a nice feature of my likewise scrum-diddly-umptious Xmas dinner (Willy Wonka's was on).

I just arrived back from my aunt's house, where we spent the best part of two hours discussing our favorite comedians!

How was your day?