Well, thanks to being modded a couple of times and what have you the journey towards level 21 has been a long and arduous one but I'm finally there. I don't usually care about such things but seing that scale seemingly stick in the same place for the best part of 4 months was really getting my goat for some reason. And now the rank of 'Metal Slime' has been and gone I seem to be reffered to as a chipmunk! Who came up with these strange monikers and why? It seems whoever you were you just seemed to fold a few peices of paper in half and lob them into a hat!

Sorry for not blogging for some time but gaming has taken over my free time (not that I have ever been much of a blogger!) Hopefully though I can say a bit more this year and get to know you a little better.

On a final note I'd just like to make a quick mention to one of my favourite people on GS; Crzy_gurl. Someone has ben getting her modded for anything trivial or otherwise that they can find. The consequences of this is that she has decided that her time on GS will soon be drawing to a close. I hope that this doesn't come true but if it does then I wish you all the best and hope we meet some other time or some other place Crzy.

Today I saw the return of my Xbox 360. It had been too long since my hands had touched the perfection of it's joypad despite it only being 10 days away from me on it's journey to Frankfurt and back. I couldn't hold back the smile upon receiving the box from the UPS courier and so I made my quickest signature ever on his new fangled piece of technology and nigh on ran up to my flat and fed it's cable once more into their housing. I couldn't decide which game to play what with owning 51 titles for it and so decided to flip a coin onto 'The Gaming Shelf'. The coin came down on Guitar Hero III and swiftly it was placed onto the disc tray. Feeling that I needed to work the controller but not myself I opted for normal mode and went in for 'When You were young' by The Killers. I flew through the song like no time I had ever done before and amassed a score of 131000+ beating my previous score by a good 13000. I thought it was just a good song and so moved on to my next choice 'Anarchy in the UK' by the Sex Pistols. It happened again, I had racked up a 5 star rating and thrashed on this occasion, my previous score. This has occured on 6 songs in a row now and I just couldn't believe that it was happening after not playing the game for a good 6 weeks or so.

So what is my message here some of you may be thinking, well I give you this; every now and then take a brief sabbatical from your games. Despite practice being the mother of all learning, taking a break can do you just as much good sometimes.

On a final note I would just like to praise Microsoft for their very quick service of my console which cost me nothing (Sony/Nintendo take note). I had little faith in them until today but I have been truly surprised. MInd you it would be better if they could make the console a little more reliable in the first place!

I just received a PM which started with the line 'hi, what's up'. This is a spam for a dating website and if you receive it be sure to report the message as abusive to the mods. Let's get these fools banned. That is all!