Three months since my last post! I'm blaming exams again which hopefully went ok despite my ambitiously doing two at once and a monumental PMI cock up where we were given the wrong essay questions.
Without further ado here are some things that are noteworthy this week:
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/oct/27/marmo-bristol-it-just-makes-me-happy-restaurant-review
Jay Rayner writes a love letter to Bristol restaurants in his Sunday restaurant review for the Guardian. While I don't eat out much this is still a flattering write up for my native city. I've always admired Rayner's writing and this week is no exception.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/26/boris-johnson-no-brexit-until-january-block-christmas-general-election
While I haven't fully thought through the implications this does seem like a deal with the devil for Jo and Blackford. I can see why the Lib Dems would want to capitalise on positive headlines and perceived Labour weakness but I can't imagine there will be much popular enthusiasm for an election in December.
More importantly with Johnson's open contempt for the law and parliamentary procedure and cooperation with him is likely to back fire massively. Even the prospect of revoking the millstone of article 50 doesn't excuse such risk taking.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/512900/Streets_of_Rogue/
So I got naughtily drunk at a work social on Thursday. Cue an end of week featuring locating lost rucksacks containing keys and mobiles, apology chocolates for waking up the house in the middle of the night and a hungover, adrenalin-fuelled Friday. While my system is mostly back to normal I did wake at 4am this morning as my sleep patterns are still messy.
After trying to get back to sleep and reading some of Chasm City, I booted up Streets of Rogue for a run through as the Cop. This game deserves all of the praise it has received although after over 70 hours I've seen much of what it has to offer.
I managed to do the Big Quest by making mass arrests to cover for a couple of accidental massacres (not really my fault - couple of crossfire conflicts with mobsters and a 'status effect' special event that turned me into a giant at an awkward moment).
Getting to the Mayor's Village I blew away the guardhouse with fireworks and a machine gun and then took out two cop bots who came investigating. I possibly needn't have bothered however since as a supercop the majority of the residents seemed to be aligned with me. All it took was a couple of grenades at the patrolling mayor and I had the victory.
Give it a try. It is tremendously more-ish even when you've played it to death.
