Morning people! So this is my 200th blog spectacular, just look at all the effort I've gone to! This is a self catered party so feel free to bring refreshments...

So I'm feeling a bit disheartened after losing my first men's tennis match of the season last night. I had an appalling game so luckily swearing is censored here otherwise I'd be more than critical of my performance! Also last night was my first men's match for the team that I'm captain for and typically it rained. I spent what seemed like hours on the phone trying to get hold of the other team captain but couldn't. As I was playing in the other match I had a different team to go to that one which is two hours hours away from where I was playing (an hour in opposite directions from our tennis club). It was eventually called off 5 minutes before they were about to leave so I frantically had to ring and let everyone know whilst trying to get home for my own match! It was a stupid idea offering to be captain! In other tennis news I've got the first match of this year's singles championship tonight as long as the weather is ok. I'm not sure how I'll get on as I've only ever seen him play a couple of times, I've never even been on court with him.

I've decided that it's time to buy a new PC, there's nothing wrong with my current laptop but I thought I'd prefer something stationary and a bit more powerful. I just have to decide now whether I can justify spending £500+ on a PC when I have one that works well enough now.

In gaming I added two new games to my collection this week. First up was Top Spin 3 which I'm quite excited about as it appears to be more thought based and might favour tennis players more than the way too arcade like Virtua Tennis 3. The other I thought was a pure bargain, I got Assassin's Creed for only £12.98! There was no way I was going to miss out on it at that price. Even if the game failed to live up to the hype it looks just like my sort of game. On Half Life 2 I'm really getting bored of it now, there was a battle against a gun ship that just took me ages and I was ready to give up on it. I finally managed to do it after about 8 retries but then another one comes along not much later and I feel like giving up all over again. There are some cool moments though, taking over the antlions was excellent, getting them to do your work for you is good. I don't think they had as much benefit as I thought they would, you have to get pretty close to the bad guys to target them for an attack so it's easier to shoot them or they'll shoot you while you set up for the antlions.

As for tv.com this has to have been one of my most hectic and rewarding weeks in a long time! I've picked up some great guides this week starting with another that Mafeu passed onto me, Painkiller Jane which looks like a great show. I already have the first episode ready to watch. He also let me have which I may now consider my favourite guide, Flash Gordon. As many of you know I don't often submit to guides with editors because often it's not worth the hassle but on a couple of occasions I have done. So for the first time ever on Tuesday morning I logged on, to find subs in my queue for a show that I wasn't aware I was editor of, which was Frasier. I'm pretty pleased to have this guide, I thought it would take a long time to filter through to me but the next in line must be banned and then the next one is MIA so it came to me! Imagine my surprise then when the same thing happened to me the next day! It had never happened before and twice in two days, this time for Only Fools and Horses which I was a TC already for which I'd have liked to have kept. As well as those I had been slowly working on As If which I also got this week.

With all those new guides I finally hit 150 guides which I didn't want to do until I have 150 guides I actually want so I retired from another 8, 7 of which are begrudgingly now editorless. I'm also planning on offloading the rest of the ones I listed a couple of blogs back in the next few of days. As well as those I got a new person guide for Kristanna Loken who is the star of Painkiller Jane. That was just by chance when I was working on the guide so now only one more person until I hit double figures...I feel sick! Lastly to make the week complete two more of my guides got banners (albeit not great ones) which now brings my total number of bannered guides up to 22!

On TV, I watched another episode of Pushing Daisies 'Girth' which was another good episode. The stuff about Olive being a jockey was a bit weird but the rest was alright. I also saw the finale of Criminal Minds 'Lo-Fi' which was a brilliant ending to the season. There was drama all the way through with a great case to back things up. I'm not sure who I want to be in that car, I like the team as it is now, I suppose I hope it's Rossi as he's the new guy. Next up was Heroes with 'The Kindness of Strangers' which was good, I'm like Monica but her power seems too similar to the waitress last season. No appearance of Hiro in this episode wasn't so good but I am liking the Claire/West storyline. Lastly, I made a start on Chuck with 'Pilot' and it was quite tame. I thought it was funny that the episode seemed quiet normal and then... oh, there's a ninja! It ended up alright, I can see potential, especially as I'm finding the girl very attractive!

My album for the day is Lessons To Be Learned by Gabriella Cilmi.

My shuffle song for the day is

My thing to ponder for today is: Why are both of Spongebob's parents round like sea sponges while he is square like a kitchen sponge?

Morning people! Hopefully I'll have some real work to do this week to break up how much time I spend on tv.com...

Another quiet weekend for me, Saturday I did absolutely nothing, it was just so nice to have a break from doing anything! Yesterday I had a mammoth session of tennis, I was absolutely knackered at the end, we had four sets of doubles where we managed to win all of them. After that I was all ready to go home when one of the others asked if I wanted to play singles so I thought why not? The answer to that is because I can barely walk any more! The last three times we've played single sets he beat me 6-1, 6-1, and then I won the last one 6-1 so they are never exactly even affairs. This time though he won 7-5 6-3 which I was happy with, considering we don't take breaks like the professionals I think I did ok. I mean my fitness is good but over that amount of time he was much better off!

I've decided to take a break from my massive downloading spree after a month of straight downloading. I've now got everything I need for the time being and I just hit over 200GB of downloaded content so my phone line must be fried by now!

In gaming I've made some great progress on Half Life 2 and I'm really enjoying it. So far though I'm not entirely sure where the plot is and where it's going. I understood that I was supposed to be heading out of City 17 but now I'm lost. There really doesn't seem to be any point to what I'm doing any more. I'm also a bit peeved that I didn't get the achievement for only using the gravity gun in Ravenholm but after reading in some forums it doesn't seem like I'm the only one not to get it. It's a bit annoying as it takes a lot of effort to get that one and it one of the only decent achievement that is worth a meaty number of points. The only other thing that I'm not too fond on is the amount of driving involved, there's a bit too much.

On tv.com I finally bit the bullet and retired from my first ever guides. So far I've only retired from guides that have decent editors ready to take over - which is only two guides - but now I've done it once, I feel that I can do it again. I decided to do it before I hit 150 guides, I didn't want to celebrate 150 guides if I'm going to get rid of some and have to reach 150 again. I should also move onto the next level by the end of the week, that's the plan anyway. Lastly, I need to start thinking about what to put into my next blog as it'll be a celebratory 200th edition... I just noticed that for the new episode of Nashville Star I added they've already added the 'watch full episode' link. Obviously I can't watch it here in the UK but does it work? Are they really able to add videos of episodes they haven't aired yet?

In TV I continued on with Heroes 'Lizards' and 'Kindred' and they were both great episodes. The new heroes still seem a bit tame and also Peter is annoying me, I just wish he would remember what he can do so that there's at least one decent person worth watching! Next up was Criminal Minds 'Tabula Rasa' and I thought that we'd managed a whole season without the obligatory flashback episode but no! Just before the end of the season they threw one in! To be honest though it wasn't that bad, I enjoyed it anyway. I also saw Pushing Daisies 'Pigeon' which just made me laugh so much for a half hearted comedy. I have to say Anna Friel is brilliant and does the UK proud!

My album for the day is Only By The Night by Kings of Leon.

My shuffle song for the day is 'Otherside' by Breaks Co-Op.

My thing to ponder for today is: Why people are so scared of mice, which are much smaller than us, when no one seems to be scared of Micky Mouse, who is bigger than us?

Morning people! A very unenergetic week is coming to and end, let's hope there's more excitement over the weekend...

Not much tennis for me this week, my men's team for which I am captain have yet to play a match. The one last Saturday was cancelled and now the one for this weekend has been as well. As the opposition couldn't get a team together for this weekend I was well within my right to claim the points (which he thought I would) but that's not how I'm running my team. We aren't going to win the league anyway and as I like playing other clubs I decided to rearrange instead. Plus, as I play in the more superior men's team with my partner who is the captain for that team, we have decided to use my team this season to see who is good enough to be back up players should we need them for the better men's team.

Yesterday I attended a corporate event where all the people in our division got to sit down and listen to the top guys talking about how great we are, and how the company is improving. Problem is we all know this isn't true so most of us were switching off. We also got to see that our office isn't given as much attention as the others. It's much smaller than the rest of them but we should be given the same treatment as the others. Still we managed to get a few freebies like a free drink and a free company branded USB drive which was a nice bonus.

In gaming I made a start on Half Life 2 and from what I've seen it looks to be a decent game. The setting looks pretty decent and it hasn't gone for the big cinematic feel which I'm glad about. So far though I've only just picked up my first weapon and am getting to grips with a non GTA game. Considering this is a first person shooter and GTA's shooter is kind of an add on, I much prefer it on GTA. I do think though that GTA has messed up my ability to play shooting games, not having auto aim seems alien to me at the minute despite the hundreds of games I've played with a manual aim before. Plus Half Life doesn't appear to have the option to stick to walls so you can look around corners without being shot to pieces. That should be a requirement for all shooting games! It seems the game is a bit more in your face than more tactical shooters which I prefer. I'm hoping once I get hold of the gravity gun then all my worries will fade away...

As for tv.com, I've still only got Lin taking Peppa Pig off of me as it stands. Possibly one more but I have to decide whether I can bring myself to actually retire from a guide and not get overtaken on points. I was hoping to have at least 5 that I could pass onto someone else. Just because you haven't heard of them doesn't mean there aren't subs to do on the guides! Nearly all the summaries need replacing on them and I'm sure that would get you over the required 80 points. To make things worse I not once thought that after my blog to get rid of guides I would actually have more by the time I wrote this blog. A few days back I picked up Man vs. Wild which looks like a really great survival show although I have yet to watch it. Pretty much everything on the guide was plagiarised so I'm busy working through replacing everything.

With me finally reaching the end of Flash Gordon I thought it was about time to start watching one of the more mainstream/popular shows so I've started on Heroes season 2 with 'Four Months Later...' which I really enjoyed. Lately when I've been watching something I've been sitting there waiting for it to end but with this I didn't even realise it had nearly finished! The return of the old favourites is great but the new ones seem a bit lightweight compared to what last season's characters could do. I also watched Criminal Minds 'In Heat' which was a great episode, I thought it was pretty funny that they all knew about the relationship even though it was obvious that they did. I watched another as well, 'The Crossing' which was just confusing having two cases that weren't completely different. Only two episodes left now and then I have to find another new show to watch! Lastly I saw My Name Is Earl 'No Heads and a Duffel Bag' which was good, I do wish he's come out of his coma though, it's a bit annoying now.

My album for the day is Beautiful Future by Primal Scream.

My shuffle song for the day is 'Soluble In Air' by Mystery Jets.

My thing to ponder for the day is: If a teacher were to teach a younger grade than they were teaching before, would they be "degraded"?