It's Christmas!

I've just gotten home, spent ten minutes unpacking layers upon layers of paper, duct tape and cardboard, spent ten minutes more trying to set everything up and then 5 & 1/2 hours playing with my new toy. Then I had a leet meal cooked for me. It seems that despite what my homepage told me this morning, it is indeed Christmas.


_{Non-biodegradable plastic 1 - 0 Environment}


I have Rock Band.



_{What instructions manual?}

For those of you currently residing in a cave (but with an inexplicable 'net connection allowing you to read my blog) - Rock Band, released in the UK today, is the best game ever.


_{Apparently slot A went into hole J, once sliding under 'bit of plastic #14. Where's IKEA when you need them?'}

Imagine Guitar Hero III meets Singstar meets an electronic drumkit. I spent about 5 hours playing the drums yesterday, at the end of which I was actually sweating and all of my muscles ached. Who says computer games make you unfit eh?


_{Some may argue that having five Guitar Hero guitars is a bit much. Idiots.}

I've got the week off work, and Julie-oh's around to cook my food and bring me drinks, so now the only thing I need to worry about is whether to play drums or guitar, or have a go at singing, or shoot a lot of people in GTA IV (using the drumkit as a controller, obviously).


_{My vocal career was off to a bad start as I tried to work out which way up the microphone should go}

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Idea: Next year my house will contain two guitarists, a drummer and a trumpeter. She was just complaining that there's no trumpet add-on for the game...but why not just use the vocals microphone? Another brilliant idea brought to you by Inacorp.