  Please be gentle with me today as I'm feeling a little bit delicate. I must emphasise at this point that it is entirely self inflicted and the result of one too many beers last night. It's always that last one that gets you isn't it and you realise at about 5:30am when you wake up with a start that it was a very bad idea. I'm currently taking a minute out from some work I'm doing for the reprobates who took me out and got me so drunk last night.
Some friends from Manchester are starting a new venture and have asked that I give them a hand with some visual elements which means that on this glorious day I am sitting in front of my computer. If it weren't such a lovely computer I would be inconsolable :) In other news I have recently discovered the joy of Halo on the XBOX. With all the fuss that was made of Halo 2 at E3 the other week I decided that I'd given Halo a hard time and that with all that hype I must be missing something. One of the journalists I was in LA with sang its praises and I decided to ask my good friends at urlLink CA Games to furnish me with a copy to see what I'd missed out on.
I have to say that I'm really getting into it. Perhaps it's because the focus has shifted to the new one that I can now look at the original in a more objective fashion but whatever the reason I'm really enjoying it. I fear that this may be a short lived sensation as I'm assured by a good friend that as you go on all the levels start to look the same. It's something I've already noticed about some of the locations but thus far the AI and combat situations are keeping me entertained.
Those Warthog jeep things are ridiculously hard to pilot though. Not a fan and it's hopefully something that Bungie will see fit to change in the sequel. I should probably get back to it, I'm sure the boys will be on their way back from the shops now and I've been promised a pizza for lunch as long as I work hard :) toodleoo Iain 
