Well as my fellow Sydneysiders can attest to, it has been wet and miserable in the Emerald City for what seems to be an eternity. However we must remember that we were in drought not that long ago and the rain is filling our dams and making Morris Iemma's insistence to spend billions on a desalination plant look pretty foolish in the short term. I do know one little quadruped who is very unhappy about the rain.... little Oscar is furious that his park walks are being curtailed by the downpour!! Although he has a raincoat both his mother and him are big wusses and won't go out there. Aren't you Katie

The rain has allowed me to enjoy an old favourite of mine and that is Sid Meier's SimGolf. I have always enjoyed golf games, all the way back to World Class Leader Board on the Apple IIe which I still have. One of my favourite features on WCLB was the ability to "design" your own course by taking holes from the four included courses and plot out a dream course to play. I did always dream of a game where you could actually design every aspect of the course and then play it. SimGolf was that game... however I missed it when it came along in 1996. I certainly did not miss Sid Meier's SimGolf in 2001 as it combined the genius of Sid Meier and Will Wright to create a business/strategy sim based on golf. Pure gaming goodness in my books. As you design and expnad your course, your Sim becomes a better golfer, allowing you to win exhibition games and tournaments which of course bring in the simoleons to expand and upgrade the course... and thus the addictive cycle begins.

The lack of posting here on pidgeo.com has been pretty much due to my re-addiction to Sid Meier's SimGolf. Should I post myself on "The List" again, or should Sid Meier get the blame? At least it fills the six days until the global phenomenon known as GTA IV arrives. For those who own both the PS3 and Xbox 360 I'd be interested to see which console you will be buying it for? Considering this audience is very pro-360 I pretty much know the answer to that, but I do wonder how the general gaming populace will be investing their cash. If Call of Duty 4 is any guide it's the 360 by a wiiiiiiiiide margin!! How long will it take to complete the main story I wonder but I certainly plan on finding out in good time.

Do we have any Star Trek fans out there? Oh lord I hope no-one of the fairer sex who is single is reading this post hehe. The reason I ask is that my introduction to Star Trek was Enterprise, a show that seemed to garner its fair share of criticism from Trekkies. I personally really enjoyed 97 of the 98 episodes (let us never speak of the finale again) so I wonder if Voyager, DS9, TNG and TOS are so much better? Maybe if I don't want to stay single I shouldn't bother finding out hehe.

When will Zune come to Australia I wonder? Just wondering out loud as I enjoy using mine as my bedroom entertainment device. Minds out of the gutter people!! Great screen, good software and it's not a boring old iPod. I do like the Creative Zen Vision W but I'm too cheap and too used to free stuff to pay for one!!

Anzac Day = Australia's greatest public holiday. I still want to attend a dawn service at Splendour Rock, the war memorial for bushwalkers about 25kms south of Katoomba in the Blue Mountains wilderness. I have been there a number of times in my hiking days (long ago!) and it is one of the most amazing places on the planet, and a fitting tribute to the fallen. I will get there one day... maybe I should aim for 2009?

Blake Lively is the most beautiful woman on television even though a) she has a bloke's name and b) Gossip Girl is a horrendous TV show! I dare you to try and watch an episode!

I wanted to give a shout out to a fellow (and MUCH more successful) blogger Samantha Brett who has a blog on SMH.com.au which is all about sex and relationships. Now I don't want to get all sensitive and such but I will say that such blogs are wonderfully informative and let's be honest... we males can use every bit of intelligence on the fairer sex as we can get!! Evil she-devils  Sam (who is utterly stunning btw) was nice enough to reply to my e-mail of praise for her excellent and award winning blog so I thought it only right do my tiny little bit to advertise hers. I somehow don't think the majority of her audience will have an interest in my nerdy ramblings hahaha.

Family Guy = awesome. A mate of mine who now works at the Microsoft Mothership once said that Family Guy was better than The Simpsons. MightyOat and I bagged him out but he may of had a point after all. So Nic - I apologise for the bagging from four years ago as you may have been right.

Where does Call of Duty 4 rank all time for online and LAN shooters? I am crap at it but I can watch Stu play it for hours... bet that stops after the wedding mate hehehe.

I caught up with tranceVib today for the first time in over a week as he is chaotically getting things organised for the upcoming wedding to his wonderful fiance. As usual we solved all the gaming world's problems, laughed at the rumour that MGS4 will be 576p (HAHAHA if it's true) and discussed plenty of crazy ideas that may come to light if a few things go well next week for me. Seriously if Project "Train Tourney" comes off it would be beyond awesome for those who got to the finals. I'll leave it at that.

Six more sleeps to GTA IV!!