Baking, Marvel's Avengers and Tattoo Fixers

It was baking day today and this batch came out beautifully.

As it was early and nobody else was up and I decided to get on the PS4 and spark up my Marvel's Avengers game. I had wanted to get this game when it was released but it was way too expensive for my liking and some of the reviews just didn't justify the price. I decided to bite the bullet when I saw it on sale for more than 50% off. So far I am very happy with this purchase. Spider-Man set the bar fir super hero games really high so I was not expecting a miracle. As it stands though it a fun game, nice switching between various Avengers and it is great to have an introduction to Ms. Marvel who will soon be appearing in her own TV shows and the upcoming movies. It's certainly no Spider-Man on the gameplay from but the story is strong, the graphics are really good and it's an enjoyable Marvel romp.

It turned out to be a bit of a draining day for one reason or other but it did bounce back and then we went to Tattoo Fixers for some relaxation.

Garage reorg, Vampyr and Best Ink

After a good night sleep I was up pretty early today. Made myself a cuppa and then went and reorganised a few things in the garage as we are soon going to be housing a treadmill as part of our exercise equipment. Hopped on the bike for a short while and then realised I need to get back into the garage gym regularly in the week as I can feel I have definitely gone backwards from a cardio and muscle strength perspective.

I did a quick bit of work as some shit was dumped on me yesterday that had to be actioned. Technically it wasn't my responsibility to make sure the work was scheduled but in the interest of the wheels running smoothly I did it just so we don't end up with pain once clients start working tomorrow. 

It was then time to relax so I started up the PS4 and began playing Vampyr which I had just downloaded for free courtesy of PSN Plus. 

It's a good game. Not really fast paced which suits me down to the grown with a story that slowly unfolds as you progress.

The rest of the day was spent chilling out and watching Season 3 of Best Ink.

Gaming, hockey, gardening, The X-Files, Bill & Ted and Rock Of Ages

Awake early as usual but there as no being busy. Got up, made a cup of coffee and played a bit of Street Fighter V on the PS4. After that I listened to some X Japan and played Super Mario on my Nintendo 3DS XL as it is the 35th Anniversary this year. I have rekindled my love of the simplicity of Nintendo games and handheld consoles,

Breakfast was accompanied by game three of the Eastern Conference Finals. Tampa Bay Lightning are leading the New York Islanders 2 - 0 in the series so we were hoping to see them extend that lead. First period ended with a 1 - 1 tie and it was clear the Islanders were desperate to claw their way back into this series. This determination continued to the second period with the Islander leading 3 - 1.  Sadly the Islanders ended the third period with a 5 - 3 win and so now trail the Lightning 1 - 2 in the series.

As the weather was nice I popped into the garden to mow the lawn as I don't want it to start getting crazy as we head into autumn/winter. 

Apparently the truth is out there so we watched some episodes of The X-Files to see. We are moving from Season 3 into Season 4. 

Continuing our Keanu theme from last night we watched Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. 

Having enjoyed the silliness and the most excellent soundtrack we then turned our attention to Rock Of Ages for some musical silliness! 

Playstation nostalgia and changed plans

Turned on the PS4 for the first time in a while today. Downloaded the remake of the PSOne classic Medievil. I used to love playing this game when I was much younger (well 28)!

The good news is that this game is still great fun. It runs at a nice steady pace and the graphics are gorgeous. If you liked the original you should definitely check this out.

Lots of laundry was done and I baked another load of bread for Toni before we headed out to Eltham to have some dinner before we travelled to London. The plan had been to go and see this:

When we got to the station everything was borked. The Eltham and Elmstead Woods lines were already subject to replacement bus services so we had decided on New Eltham. Turns out that after we'd left for dinner there was a serious problem at Hither Green that meant al trains were cancelled or severely delayed. Unfortunately this meant that there was no way we could to London to attend. We were both totally gutted.

Instead we returned home, put the kettle on and settled down for an evening watching ice hockey. There are worse ways to spend a Sunday night even if it wasn't what we had planned.

Wolfenstein II, NXT UK, W. Kamau Bell and Hannah Gadsby

I was first up this morning so decided to quickly grab some Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus time. I've been a Wolfenstein fan since Wolfenstein 3D in 1992.

This game is actually much better than Wolfenstein: The New Order and I found it much easier to progress. My time was cut short when the rest of the house rose but I'll be back to it again when I get some alone time.

After brunch I caught up with the remainder of the NXT UK Tournament. NXT for me is far more entertaining than the WWE main stable and now the UK wrestlers are really getting their chance to shine and show what they are made of. I can't wait to see the NXT UK TV shows that are coming up soon.

Netflix has a lot of brilliant standup shows doing the rounds at the moment. We started off watching W. Kamau Bell's 'Private School Negro'. This was hilarious, a very witty take on the good old US of A under Mr Trump, racism and how kids are more socially aware than we give them credit for. Well worth a watch.

Next up was Hanna Gadsby's 'Nanette'. This was powerful stuff. The majority of the show was your usual standup style routines but the message delivered at the end was very strong. Everyone should watch this show and digest the message at the end.

No parcel, Miggi's, Rocket League, Lizzie Borden and Suits

The start today wasn't too early which was a relief. I started off getting excited about a delivery I was expecting but I got a notification that the package won't arrive until Monday so that was part of my weekend plans put on hold LOL.

Toni and I ventured out in the heat to have breakfast at Miggi's. It was nice relaxed affair with the added bonus of Toni being given a belated birthday card and present from Miggi.

When we got home I opened a package from Amazon to find my copies of Rocket League and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. As Toni isn't really into games with bullets firing all the time I decided to play Rocket League first.

She made a brilliant post on Facebook about the whole thing:

Toni Glitz: KT Glitz is playing a PS4 game which involves cars and football at the same time. I am concerned that he may have been replaced by an alien who didn’t do any research about him! 

Jon Jones: Meaning that KT can’t drive and doesn’t view footballers as god-like entities?!

Exactly! KT usually has no interest in cars or football.

Rocket League is a very silly game with cars used as players. Described as "soccer, but with rocket-powered cars", Rocket League has one to four players assigned to each of the two teams, using rocket-powered vehicles to hit a ball into their opponent's goal and score points over the course of a match. The entertainment value more than made up for the fact that I was hardly a star player on my teams LOL.

We got back to watching some Lizzie Borden Chronicles which we had taken break from. Now there's a show that doesn't like to follow a linear plot and throws in the odd 'well damn' moments.

Some more Suits finished the day off as it's such a good show :)

Uncharted day

Well following on from yesterday it turned out I did have a chance for lots of PS4 time today.  Well, after a good long bit of extra sleep.

Uncharted 4: A Thief's End was my weapon of choice and I spent most of the day playing. I haven't played it for months and had forgotten how much I enjoy the game. I made really good progress throughout the day completing seven levels and now the end is in sight. I did have to stop playing though as I reached a bit that I was struggling with and was starting to get grumpy. I'll give it a good few days break before attempting it again LOL.

Any downtime was spent on watching having some good old belly laughs to Mock The Week.

Lazy day

We had a nice lazy morning today before heading out to Eltham to grab breakfast at Miggy's.

Any plans for the afternoon were suspended as we were all full of lovely food. Toni, Sam and I started watching Andy Parsons Slacktivist show. They both crashed out in the middle of it but I was wide awake and enjoyed the whole show LOL.

I managed to get in some PS4 time playing a bit of Star Wars Battlefront II and also some Rayman Legends. It was nice to play again, I should make more time to do it.

The rest of the day was spent watching Young Sheldon and Suits.

Upcoming PS4 titles I can't wait to get my hands on

With the E3 show in full swing there a number of videos that have appeared giving some insight into some of the cool upcoming games.

So here's what is floating my boat so far in the PS4 world. This little lot will keep me going for ages as I spend too much time playing games so I'll probably be good for a year here LOL.

Spider-Man:


Ghost Of Tsushima:


Skull & Bones:


Red Dead Redemption 2:


Spyro: Reignited Trilogy


Assassin's Creed Odyssey:

The Magicians, Gatwick road trip, PS VR and NHL

I had hoped for a long sleep this morning but that wasn't to be but I guess getting up after 9 isn't really a bad thing LOL. Tea and breakfast was followed by a couple of episodes of The Magicians.

At midday Toni and I jumped in the car for a road trip to Gatwick to go and pick up Aaron and his friend Amy from the airport. Despite the M25 being quite busy we made it in plenty of time. Flight was on time so it was a smooth pick up and then back round the M25 to drop Amy off in Deptford and Aaron back in Sidcup. It was still almost five hours so not an insignificant outing LOL.

Sam picked up a PlayStation PS VR set cheap on eBay and we had a little dabble on it. I have to say that the Star Wars Battlefront PS VR mission is absolutely superb. VR is not something I'm that interested in but seeing a VR Star Wars universe is a whole different ball game. Colour me impressed!

The only slight downside of PS VR versus Occulus was that I felt a little seasick afterwards.

Tonight was the first of the NHL preseason games so we decided to indulge as we hadn't watched any ice hockey for quite some time. Vancouver Canucks v LA Kings was the first match in the preseason series. I'm not really a fan of either team as such but boy it was good to have some hockey back!