The Hounds of Love are calling me

I didn't feel particularly loving towards our hound last night who took it into his head to start barking at one in the morning again.

He eventually quieted down, or at least I was so tired I slept through his yapping, but I had strange and disquieting dreams that left me in a bit of a melancholy mood all day. The weather was gray and damp, eventually turning into persistent rain as the evening drew in at the ludicrously early hour of four o'clock. I really am counting down the days to the solstice and the turning of the year now.

Other than walking the dog (who didn't deserve it), today has been a games day. Flea market day in Animal Crossing but none of my neighbours had any sets that I really wanted. I'd quite like to collect some Lovely or Elegant furniture, but there's none around that I can see. I settled for a cat mask from the Able Sisters instead. I really need to go to the city again at some point to check out Crazy Redd's shop too.

I found myself playing a bit of Ground Effect as well. It's a very unforgiving racing game, with one mistake likely to cost you the race. It requires you to anticipate corners way in advance and make sweeping, gradual turns through the checkpoints with careful use of the boost on the straights. Fortunately it restarts races with no delay, making learning of the courses by trial and error a realistic proposition. I was also pleasantly surprised to see one of the courses set at night time which gave a very different feel to the game.

To lift the mood a little I played a few more missions of Gay Tony with a rather enjoyable (if somewhat far fetched) subway train heist that involved quite literally sky jacking a whole carriage. What larks. I also seem to have a contact who will deliver me sports cars as and when I need them. Which is nice.