Going down to Liverpool (to do nothing)

Up early this morning and out of the house at seven to drive to Liverpool for a meeting.

Needless to say, it was as dark as a very dark thing out there but I had my iPhone to keep me company loaded up with an excellent electro playlist. By the time I was over the Woodhead pass the sun was up, but that was about the time that I got stuck in the queue of traffic going through Tintwhistle (to which the traditional response is 'Tis a whistle').

I found my way to the Liver Building, more by luck than judgement, and went inside. Wow. What a contrast to the boarded up buildings and urban decay on the drive through the suburbs on the way there. The lifts were suspiciously chatty though. You have to select your desired floor from a touch pad display in the lobby and then a voice tells you which lift to use and pre-selects the floor for you - there are no buttons to press once you are inside. Very swish.

Anyhoo, the meeting was over in less than two hours so it was back over the Pennines again with grey skies lowering over the Autumnal colours of the moors. As is pretty much usual I was stuck behind a lorry and behind me was a boy racer in a turbo nutter bastard xr3i (or something of that ilk). He was itching to overtake and in one of the few passing spots he tried his luck, making it past me until an oncoming truck forced him back across. For the next couple of miles you could see him trying to jockey for position, drifting out on corners and looking for passing opportunities like some sort of demented Jenson Buttons, until he finally managed it - just before the lorry in front pulled into a truck stop lay by. He roared off into the distance with a triumphant roar from his motor until two minutes later I caught up with him behind another mini convoy of three more trucks. Hah. Pwnd.

In games news, I finally finished all of the hard levels on geoDefense:Swarm last night (although I noticed that the original geoDefense has acquired another four levels in the last update which I haven't tackled yet). I was after a new game to splash out fifty nine shiny new pennies on and after perusing that Rev Chap's blog I went for Minigore.

It's an excellent little twin stick shooter with absolutely no pretensions to being anything other than it is, which is perfect. I particularly like the option to choose your own soundtrack from your iTunes library. I have decided that 'Psychokiller' is the ideal musical accompaniment for shooting hundreds of little demony thingies. Aces.