It was my Birthday on Sunday and I'm feeling my age! Age is just a number 'they' say. Well if a number can stop you getting out of bed in the morning, becoming a slave to bills, not being able to drink any alcohol without a sore head and whinging that music is 'just a pile of steaming poop compared to what I used to listen to', then yep 'they' are right.

But it's fine because what I have to look forward to now is a mid life crisis. You know the score trying to get down with the kids in the vain attempt to regain any kind of credibility with young people that may have been lost, both though time and the wearing of a cardigan because "It's got a bit chilly". Then let's not forget the obligatory purchase of a car, something sporty perhaps, that smacks of desperation with the ropey looking peroxide blonde with accompanying orange tan accessory sat next to me LOL.

No longer will I be found delving into "a good book" of an evening, no way! I want to be the odd guy in the club, you know the old looking one who's lost any ability to dance his arse off like he used to but is convinced that 'he still has it' whilst sweating like Rick Waller in a pizza queue. This of course is thanks mainly to the tight leather trousers that have been rescued from 20 years of hibernation and that also seem to have mystically shrunk during that time too?!?!

It is these images that now haunt my every birthday. Any shouts of let's going clubbing are only wrongly encouraged by the thoughts of yeah why not you've still got it which clearly is a pandemic for any man my age LOL. But hey the only consolation is that I like birthday cake and the growing number of candles is helping with my heating bills for that day

Sang the M&S advertising, housewife's favourites Take That. This has been one of those months where everything around me feels like it's going at a million miles an hour and I'm stuck in the middle trying desperately to keep up.

Firstly my job. Now not so long ago I blogged about my new position and well after a few short months I have been promoted to the big boss. I have a new bigger mug for my coffee and a great swivel chair but the workload is very demanding, don't they know I'm a gamespotter?? Hence why I have been somewhat quiet of late and not filling the forums with nonsensical ramblings, not a great loss some may say .

Secondly the new dash update for the 360. I like it and like the fact I get a look at (all abet a virtual look) at my friends and what they look like. I did try to install Devil May Cry 4 in the hope that the DVD disk read errors would stop but alas no and the game still keeps crashing and I can't get past level 7 which is causing me to spout all sorts mumblings directed at the game, some foreign I believe!

I have also finished Fable 2. A good game but the issue around the achievements again has raised my blood temperature to levels that would make Dr Bruce Banner go all green. It's a lot of fun to see just how good and ultimately bad you can be but the ending was somewhat of an anti climax. I do recommend it though as an experience more than anything else.

But now I have no games really left for my 360 both DMC4 and Test drive are broke and as I have just sent out my Christmas list I fear buying games in case the sticky situation comes up when I get what I have just brought from a loved one. I hate having to look chuffed in front of them when inside your crying LOL It's just terrible coming home, sitting down and then just twiddling your thumbs, looking at my 360, with it looking back asking 'what you going to do about it?'

But I have been dabbling in LBP it's a great little platformer but the level creation tool is amazing. You genuinely are only limited by your imagination and of course time. I have yet to fully explore its potential but maybe when (if) I get some time off I can have a proper play with it.

Oh and finally the obligatory pic of my avatar. A fair representation of me but oh the eyes are wrong and I can't seem to find any that look right. EDIT: Thanks Wavey

So another struggle on a Monday morning to get to work and more importantly look busy! But it's good to have some sense of normality as the last week has been one of dust, chaos and man size drills. I have had to have my house re wired and last week my cousin came down to give me a hand. I knew it was going to be a messy job but oh my never has such peace and tranquillity been shattered by anything I have known.

Whilst I wasn't allowed to touch the actual electrics my job was to chase the wiring and plug sockets. After consulting my DIY bible at home I was sure this was an easy job. After all how hard can it be? A sentence now resonating in my head . Now on paper going through a brick wall is easy esp. If it's a new build house (as the book showed). The problems though stemmed from my house being old, a Victorian terrace house to be exact. My first probing drill hole amounted to nothing more than a small dent in the brick. After say a few minutes of choice, colourful language, sweat and tears I came to the conclusion that my drill wasn't up to it. After a chat with a rather knowledgeable guy at B&Q and a few sharp intakes of breath as I spoke about my problem to him he directed me to a SDS drill. This for the uninitiated is a mother of a drill. Think of a hydraulic drill used to take up roads this is a kind of hand held version... the wall was owned and my only difficulty was to stop it before I went through next door LOL

I had to resort to living in a small bedroom with no carpet and with the walls stripped... not the most glamorous of locations for sure but I had my 360 with me so all was well esp with the new arrival of Fable to my household. What a game it is!!! I have since spent some quality time with it and well between slaving away as a blacksmith and starting my economic empire I have been finding time to amuse small children with my sock puppet routine LOL It's a great game though it is terrifically hard trying to be good when tills stuffed full of cash are left unattended at night and there is constant temptation to put up the rent and be a philandering terror to the female population. But so far I have come out untouched by the evil hand though time will tell if this holds for the rest of the game

And lastly great news on this Monday morning I have just received an email form PLAY telling me that my copy of LBP has arrived. This will hopefully justify my PS3 purchase now if only I can remember where I packed it last week