So, I've just spent
a week in the hospital (don;t worry, It's nothing serious (even though I have
been being watched 24/7)) with just what I could fit in a bag for company. That
has meant I've spent about 12 hours a fay, every day, staring at a laptop
screen, and it's beginning to feel like my eyes are going to fall out. If I
never see a screen again I'll be happy (that said, Watchdogs is out Friday and
I've been looking forward to that game for about 6 months, so I'll be playing
that a lot (more on that to follow (another day))).
So, what have I been
doing? Well, a hell of a lot of time has been spent playing Champ Man 03/04
(yeah, took me 4 seasons to win the prem with West Brom). As I'm down with the
Champ man/ FM crowd though I'm well aware that every player wants to talk about
their own game but not ever hear about anyone else’s so I wont go in to it any
more.
So, I mentioned I
bought a PS Vita before, so I loaded the best games I had for it on to it
before I left and thought finally I'd get some use out of it. I got through
about half of the first world of Sly cooper: thieves in time and now haven't
played it since the second day I was here, nor any other Vita games for that
matter. Buying a Vita may have been the biggest waste of about £150 of my
entire life (that said, it made me get PS plus, which turned out to be a great
purchase on my PS3). I've just got to make a decision on whether to keep it or
sell it now.
I've packed a fair
few books as well, and been given a few by family as well, and I've not opened
a single one. I can't be bothered. Reading a book to me always seems like a
massive effort ahead of time, and inevitably once I'm a couple of chapters into
them, I'll love it, but I find it hard to motivate myself to start. It's not
just books I'm like that on though, it pretty much goes for any new media, a
new TV series, a new game, a new band, whatever it is going in always feels
like 'ugh'.
I have got myself to
start watching Babylon 5 though, after hearing great things about it and being
gifted the first season on DVD (what is this, 2008?) about 3 years ago. So, I
started watching it, got about 3 episodes in, and it was flipping awful. So, I
took to the internet (on my phone, I'll be damned if I'm paying the hospital
for the privilege (or the equal privilege to watch daytime terrestrial TV)).
What I discovered was the first season was pretty meh, but after that it gets
amazing, but season 1 is full of set up and you'll appreciate it more. It also
seemed like you could start from season 2 and be fine, but I'll be damned that
if I'm gonna watch the whole thing I'm not going to start from the start. This
is far from the first time I've done this, Angel and TNG spring to mind here as
starting very slowly, but I had to watch it anyway (what kind of fan would I be
otherwise (and I'd have missed Yar and the Tar!)).
I've knocked out a
few films too and been reminded how lame James Bond films are. It may be
because they've been so overdone now, spoofed and the formula repeated so much
that It seems so old hat (also the one I watched was from 1971, so that
probably didn't help). I also didn't like the Godfather for mostly the same
reason, but probably ,ore due to the recent playing of Mafia 2 (and you all
know what I think about that anyway), which pretty much rips off most of the
film, but as I played that game first, the film seems like I've seen it all
before. Additionally I didn't like how it kept skipping forwards in unspecific
amounts of time. Evil Dead 2013 is amazing though (even though I've seen it
before).
In the last few days
I've started getting so bored that I've started tweeting along to everything
I’ve been watching https://twitter.com/andy_pearsall. I certainly hope my 9 followers (2 of which are
bots and 6 of which I'm fairly sure wouldn't give a damn and probably think
I've got mad) are enjoying it.
Finally then, what's
it like no leaving a room. Firstly, I'll explain that I have to mostly spend
the time sitting on either 1 specific chair or the bed, as I have to stay on
camera as much as possible. It should also be noted that I have a load of
electrodes stuck on my head that I can't take off (hence no shower), attached
to a shoulder bag (which I also couldn't take off), that after 7 days was
starting to feel pretty damn heavy. I've also had to have a needle in my arm that is very sore, extremely difficult to sleep with (don’t' forget
the electrodes, shoulder bag and hospital bed when thinking of this) and even
harder to change my T shirt with, which is difficult enough with all this stuff
on my head and the shoulder bag that I've already got to get it over. In
addition to this, there's nurses, doctors and orderlies coming in every half
hour for something or other, and even though I know they're doing their jobs,
sometimes I just want some peace and quiet. The only time I do get it is at
night, but then I'm woken up at 6AM for a blood pulse test and then given meds, breakfast, tea, checked on and my bed turned all
before 8AM.
Then there's the
food. It's not as bad as people make out, but after a whole week of it I just
wanted to go out and eat something fancy, or even just a Pizza would've been
nice. Add on to this that all 3 meals come within 10 hours of each other, then
you have to wait 14 hours until the next one isn't very well planned, so I have
to rely whatever snacks my family bring me during the evening, and they're
never healthy (not that I really want them to be) and during my time stuck in a
room I can't exactly get any exercise done, so I'm probably stone by now.
That's pretty much
it then, you may notice that some of this is in the past and present tense,
that's because, even though I'm writing it while I'm still in hospital (I need
to pass the time dammit) I decided I wanted to make it seem like I wrote it
when I got out, but I'd intermittently remember that I was doing that, but kept
forgetting and now I can't be bothered to go back and correct it.
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