Things I've Noticed: My Wife is Pretty Amazing

Sorry I didn't get this post up earlier in the weekend; I came home on Friday expecting to have an evening's worth of stuff to do, and would hopefully get out a review of the book I was planning to finish (should come next week), when my wife told me she had a surprise for me - which turned out to be a copy of the new PS3 game The Last of Us from my local library.

So, as a huge fan of post-apocalyptic stories, I've spent my weekend working my way through the game (also schoolwork, hanging with the family, visiting friends, etc.), and so far I've got to say it's pretty amazing.

The company who produced the game, Naughty Dog, are the same folks who created the Uncharted series, so I've found a lot of the controls are similar (which is nice), but what really amazes me about the game is just how amazing it looks - considering I'm playing a guy fighting zombie-like creatures, the sheer level beauty of game, showing a world where nature is slowly creeping back up on the remnants of our modern world.

I'm still probably in the first quarter of the game, but wow; it's a huge amount of fun.

Have I mentioned how amazing my wife is?

Things I've Noticed: Solving a Rubick's Cube impresses

Okay, I'll admit it, I'm one of those guys who can solve a Rubik's Cube in five minutes or less.

And what does this mean, you ask?

Mostly it means that I work my hardest to come up with clever excuses to try solving a cube in front of new people so that they can think I'm a cool dude.

My favourite ways include (but are not limited to): messing up a cube, dropping it on the ground and saying "Hey Look, a Rubik's Cube - I wonder if I can solve this crazy thing?" or sometimes I'll pull out the cube and just start messing around with it mid conversation and then solve it while chatting, and every once in a while I'll simply hand a person a completed cube and ask:

"Could you mess this up for me?  I've got to get my cube on!"

Actually that last one probably doesn't make me sound that cool, but let me tell you, when I get to solving a cube, people are impressed...

Or maybe they're just humouring me....



Oh Yeah!  well my wife says I'm cool!