Rickie's Undate

So, I was chatting to a friend of mine, Rickie, and he's recently moved away from home and started reading my blog. Anyway, he said he missed my blog on Friday [cause I didn't blog on Friday] and wants an update. So here it is...

Friday wasn't the best day I've ever had. It started off quite badly, being woken up far too early for my liking. I had also only gone to bed at about 4am, watching Heroes, so I wasn't feeling very receptive.

Sidebar: Heroes has never been my favorite show. I think the story is cool, but that's it. It's cool. Not great, not awesome just cool. The production is wonderful, and to be honest that's most of the reason I watch the show.

Anyway, Volume 1 was ok, but Volume 2 has not yet impressed. The stories don't interlink strongly enough and everything is extremely predictable. Nothing has come as a surprise yet, including 'Who is Adam Monroe'. Anyway...


So, after not enough sleep, I got up and started reading. Then did nothing for a few hours before starting to try and play a game of dota. We had at least 3 fail games before we got a real one, and then I played like an idiot, which made me extremely angry.

Now, for those of you who don't know what dota is, it's an online strategic role-playing game. Meaning there is an overall strategy as to how to win the game, and then every person plays a character, hence the role-playing aspect. It's quite a lot more complicated than that because every character has to be played differently, and there are 93 characters, you also have to know how to play against characters, or heroes, so you need to know your hero and all the others in the game.

And of course, there are about 70 items to buy, each one having a different impact on each hero, so knowing how the items react with each hero is equally important, then combining that with the strategic element of the game, it's quite complicated.

Well, that's not entirely true. You have to think a lot throughout the game, but it's not difficult. It also requires you to remember a lot, but that's fairly easy too, just takes practice.

Now, I take my dota seriously because I think about it, work on it and do my best in every game, and when I play badly I get fucking pissed off with myself. There's no excuse for playing badly, so it usually puts me in an aggressive mood quite quickly.

So, after a few failed dota games [meaning other people ruined the game for me] we got a good game which I failed in. Not good.

After the failed game I had to get ready to go through to my brother's school where their big band and jazz bands were playing. Now I wasn't really looking forward to it but I wanted to go because my brother was doing sound, so I figured I'd show some support.

But before I left I got some horrible news which didn't brighten my mood, but it's part of life. I went to the concert which lasted about an hour longer than I though it was going to, and while some of it was good, a lot of it wasn't.

After the concert I was hungry but had calmed down and decided to just hang out so I went through to Matt's house, where I stayed until about midnight before coming home for another lame dota. Then I watched more episodes of Heroes which failed to impress, and never blogged.

So, there's your update, I'll post something more meaningful later...