Camera and separate blog for fishing!

Hello there!

Today I just wanted to let you know that I've started a separate blog for my fishing exploits, and you can find it here. I hope you enjoy it - it's an offshoot from a friend's YouTube blog about fishing, which you can find here. 

I decided to take the plunge into the world of fishing blogging for myself because I saw that my friend was getting a decent amount of views, and was also getting some sponsorship deals coming his way, and I thought "maybe I won't get sponsored, but it will probably be fun just to see what happens". It also gives me an excuse to buy a camera of my own, a Canon EOS 60D. This has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with one-upmanship of his Sanyo Xacti!!!

This means that there will no longer be any fishing related stuff on here, but please do check out my fishing blog!

I will be posing some camera related things on here - mainly just trials of various thigns at the moment, and maybe at some point my thoughts on the 60D, but you'll have to wait to see what turns up on that front.

In other news, I finished the Far Cry 3 campaign yesterday! It's a really great game, and I will be doing an in depth review in a little while, but that will take a fair amount of time as I want to do such a great game justice. Brief thoughts on it are that it's a really awesome game with some of the best graphics I've ever seen along with a decent and not too restricting storyline, albeit with moments that let it down, such as unskippable cut scenes and strange (drug-induced???) hallucinations that end up killing people with no real explanation as to how it happened. But that is for another day, so I'll leave it here today. 

Just to finish off, The Lamy Vista is still going strong and writing beautifully, and it's a real pleasure to write in the Rhodia Webnotebook!

Fishing in the freezing cold

You're probably going to think I'm mad, but I'm out fishing tonight with my friend Merlin. It is very cold out here and I fully expect there to be a heavy frost in the morning. I've had one mirror carp of 6lb 10oz so far, but we'll see what the new day brings tomorrow.

I'm now going to concentrate on staying alive - over and out!

Pen and paper reviews!

Here is the review of the Rhodia Webnotebook and Lamy Vista that I talked about in the first post. I've been meaning to do this review for a while but only just got round to doing it due to lots of schoolwork and other things. I've done this review as pictures so you can see what everything looks like:

 This is a picture of the pen I used to write the review and that also features in the review.

Lamy Vista

This is the paper on which I wrote the review.

Review written on Rhodia paper

I apologise for my absolutely dire handwriting, I am trying to improve it - honest!  If you find you can't read some of what it says please leave me a comment and I'll be happy to tell you what is what. Furthermore if you have any suggestions as to what I should put in my reviews I would be really happy to hear them!

Euro Truck Simulator 2

I apologise for the fairly lengthy delay between the first post and this one, I just completely forgot to do something on here, but I've finally got round to doing it!

A few weeks ago a YouTube channel that I am subscribed to (Robbaz, a crazy and outright hilarious Swedish guy) had a video about a game called Euro Truck Simulator 2 (ETS2 for ease of typing). Now a few years ago I played a truck simulator called 18 Wheels of Steel Pedal to the Metal, which was set in America. It just so happens that ETS2 is made by the same people that made 18WoS: PTTM, namely SCS Software. This studio makes a whole host of different sims and to be honest I like them a lot! I therefore bought the game and ever since I installed it I've been enthralled by it - I've played around 40 hours so far!

The great thing about this game is that it's realistic while not being too boring. You can drive like a but of a loony and still get the jobs done. There is also a management aspect to it as you can build up your own trucking company, hiring and firing drivers and opening garages around Europe. You can choose a truck from a host of different models, and all the makes are fully licenced as of today (before there were a couple that were missing licences and therefore had made up names) because there was a patch that added licences, and fixes for various things, not that I've had any problems at all with the game - it really is a stable game! You can also infinitesimally customise your truck with lights, paint jobs, wheels, exhausts etc.

I've heard that there is an extremely active modding community that has produced some great mods like a snow mod, or a mod with trailers that have logos from real companies but I haven't tried these yet so I can't comment on their stability or quality but they are definitely out there!

Overall I'd give this game an 8/10 as it's really good fun and easy to get into, but can get a little repetitive and the AI drivers are sometimes a little odd. This is also not a game that would appeal to absolutely ever gamer, but it's worth a shot, as there is a demo version freely available on the SCS website.

Thanks for reading, and in my next post I will do a review of the Rhodia Webnotebook and the Lamy Vista!