So yeah, I was on my way up to band practice yesterday with Dan and it was a stonker of a day so we decided to get ice creams. Now I’ve always been a massive loop the loop fan, surpassed only by my love of feasts (in particular mint feasts) but since it was so hot out I vouched for the more refreshing option of a tried and tested loop the loop.

I’m sure this isn’t groundbreaking news to most of you but I just have bring to light the crime that is todays loop the loops. The loop the loops I remember were rectangular, and chunky and a solid eat! now, they have slowly but surely whittled them down to rocket-shaped piss-takes of their former selves. Not only that, but they are generally narrower and the sections of ice cream seem to have been compressed together even more than usual to make it even smaller still.

So two fingers to HB for being greedy bastards. Bring back the old ones!

If you have recently been vexed by shrinking confectionary, please, let us know!

Any rant is a good rant.

I’ve been playing alot of GTA the past few days. And so have lot of other people! Every single person signed in to Xbox Live on my friends list has been either playing GTA or was set to away the past few days (well except for Mike who just plays COD4 all the time).

Tuesday 29th (Launch Day)

1pm - 2pm
Went to my mate Brian’s apartment for lunch and got to see GTA first hand for the very first time. Gave it a bash and was amazed by the level of detail and sheer scope of the game.

5pm - 3:30am
Left work early as I came in early. Got home at around 5pm and put the disc straight in as soon as I could turn off the gaff’s alarm. Played solidly hour after hour letting Ali have a tiny go here or there. I progressed through the single player and also gave multiplayer a bash with my homies of choice, Metonym, SenatorWilliams and Zyg0t3 (thats Paddy, Rhys and Damo to the non nerds). Damo and Paddy left multiplayer and it was just myself and Rhys. We went back to playing single player while leaving our headsets on so we could still talk to eachother! Then all of a sudden BANG! it was 3:30am! Felt a bit guilty about my sleep patterns so went to bed. All in all got off the couch about three or four times. Once to reheat lasagne and the others were toilet breaks.

Wednesday 30th

9am - 5pm
Could not stop thinking about playing GTA. It effected my work performance and the ability to program in PHP.

5:30pm - 9:30pm
Played solidly when I got home from work. Started with some multiplayer with Paddy, then onto single player. Gave Ali a go while I made some pasta. We called over to Paddy’s and said hello. We both agreed it was wierd seeing eachother in person as we’ve just been “gang banging” together the past few days (that sounds pretty dirty!). Paddy and Damo started a multiplayer session and we legged it home to join

11pm - 3am
Rushed home from Paddy’s and jumped into Free Roam mode for about an hour. The lads went to bed at around midnight so I carried on myself and progressed through the single player story. Managed to get quite far too, unlocked a new Island, went to a comedy club and watched a three minute Ricky Gervais comedy sketch! Ha! Stand up comedy in a video game, where else would you find something like that other than GTA!

Thats it for the moment! Going to rush straigh home from work and meet up with Rhys on the streets of Liberty City.

Let me take you back to last August. It was before the European Rugby Cup (aka The Heineken Cup) 2008 had even begun. I noticed that tickets for the final were on sale and decided to buy a pair. They were expensive enough however I knew I would be able to sell them for a profit on ebay if Munster didn’t make the final. To be honest, I wasn’t that hopeful. They hadn’t done great the season before and they were in the toughest group by far with the likes of London Wasps, Clermont Auvergne and Llanelli Scarlets. But anyway, they came top of the grop and qualified for a very difficult away quarter final to Gloucester. But I now feel bad for ever doubting the boys in red because they went to Gloucester and put it to them, securing an emphatic semi-final meeting with Saracens.

However, although Saracens technically shouldn’t pose much of a threat to Munster, the match was again an away fixture and Munster were certainly put to the test. The Saracens put up a much bigger fight than Gloucester had and Munster found themselves furiously defending their line only two points ahead with 10 minutes to go. But it was then that Munster’s experience really showed. This was Munster’s 7th Semi-final in 9 years and Saracens’ first. Munster were able to hold out the full 80 minutes, putting them into their 4th Heineken Cup final.

Munster now meet Toulouse in the Millenium Stadium on Saturday 24th March to decide who will be the rugby champions of Europe for the 2007/08 season. My tickets arrived in the post last Monday and I’ve booked a flight to London Gatwick for the Friday evening before the match. I’ll spend the night with Aily and then the two of us are booked on a coach up to Cardiff on the Saturday morning. We’re also staying with Aily’s friend Jodie which saves us having to book into a 5-star hotel - the only accommodation left in Cardiff for that weekend!

The match should be epic with the two biggest teams in European rugby battling it out for the most coveted of rugby prizes. My tickets aren’t the best in the stadium but there will be big screens in the ground and I’m sure the atmosphere will more than make up for the lack of being close to the pitch. In any event, the Millenium Stadium’s roof can be opened or closed depending on the weather guaranteeing me a dry match. The tickets are in my pocket, my jersey has been ironed and I’ve been listening to ‘The fields of Athenry’ on my mp3 player non-stop. Bring it on!!!

On Sunday morning I awoke relatively early considering I’d been on the booze in Clare’s house the night before. I decided to play some Guitar Hero II which I haven’t done in a while and also went for the extreme version (playing through headphones). I was on a particularly good roll and managed to clock up 99% in ‘Can’t you hear me knocking?’ by The Rolling Stones. The pics below prove it and if it wasn’t for a random hand spasm during the first verse, I would have got 100%! Still, it’s something to work towards…

Here are some more pics of Old Gregg

WOW! I own a copy of GTA IV! Fansastic! Its a pity I’m stuck in work for the next 8 hours with the game staring me in the face! I usually find it extremely difficult getting out of bed in the morning! But this morning was a completely different story! Jumped straight out of bed and legged it down to Gamestop in Dun Laoghaire in a matter of seconds! Got down there at around 07:50 and there was about 15 people in the queue outside the shop ahead of me, then at 8am they opened the doors to us and we walked in in an orderly fashion. One lad behind me in the queue didn’t have a copy pre-ordered and I overheard the shop guy telling them politely to go away!

So goodbye world. I’ll be working during the day and playing GTA IV during the night! If you need to contact me, buy an Xbox 360, a copy of GTA IV and you’ll find me online!

I just found this video on youtube! Wow is all I can say!

Some of you might know that I’m mental for the video games and one of the greatest games in the past 10 years is out tomorrow. The game of course is Grand Theft Auto: IV. Its the game that lets you steal cars, deal drugs, recieve entertainment from ladies of the night, assasinate, run over and beat up pedestrians, explore, and all other activities that result in severe mass destruction and chaos. I’ve been preparing for this game for the past few days and been looking forward to it for three years.

Yesterday I made a lasagne and divided it up into four portions and lashed them in the freezer. Also, I have about three chicken dishes in there too. One of which is made by Ali as I swaped one of my lasagne portions for his chicken saté dish.

I dont plan on cooking dinner for at least a week and perhaps next sunday I’ll make two big dinners to do me for the following week, that is if it doesnt impact my playing time.

I’ve just set up my pc in work with some nice wallpapers so that my colleagues in here know how mental I am for this game. Check it out on the right!

Gamestop will be opening early at 8am tomorrow morning to sell the game, so I’ll make my way down at around 7:30 or so incase there is a bit of a queue. Its a pity I havent taken tomorrow off work as I’ll have the copy of the game staring me in the face while I’m in work. I dont know how much sleep I’ll be getting over the next few weeks but it is definately worth it.

Is anyone else getting the game? If so let us know! We’re getting the Xbox 360 version so if you get that too share your gamertag with us so we can play online.

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