Wasting an evening

I tried signing up to play Second Life last night. I went through the registration process, which was fairly quick, and then I had to download the 25MB client software. I almost baulked at that, but decided to go for it. Once it had downloaded I tried to install it and it told me that my graphics card was unsupported and it would not be able to run.

I was a bit suprised by that. My graphics card is a couple of years old, but it is a ATI Radeon 9200, which is not that obscure, and it is powerful enough to run Half Life 2.

Never mind, it probable saved me getting sucked into another productivity void. I just spent a couple of hours on Vice City instead. I have got a thing about buying old games for a about a fiver of Ebay. I already have Vice City for my PS2, but I can never be bothered getting the PS2 out anymore. (I keep meaning to sell it.) I bought Vice City because some clever people set up an online version of it, which you needed the PC version of to be able to play, but I never got around to trying it. In fact I had forgotten about it until just now. I should have tried that last night instead.

Anniversary - a day without Internet

Yesterday was mine and Louise's fourth wedding anniversary. As it was a Thursday, the kids were in nursery, and I took the day off work so that Lou and I could spend the day together. We had a very relaxed day watching DVD's and going out for lunch.

We went to the Lickey Hills for lunch, in a very nice pub restaurant called the Barnt Green Inn.
I might do a proper review later, but I'll just say now that we both enjoyed our lunch very much.

The weird thing for me yesterday was the fact that I went an entire day without accessing the Internet. I can't remember the last time I did that. By the evening I was starting to feeling like I was suffering something like withdrawal symptoms. I was feeling nervous because I had not checked my email all day. I felt very disconnected.

Is it a bit sad that I felt like that? I'm not sure.