C is for Cars and Carriages

Now, it may appear from this post that I have nothing better to do with my time at the moment than waste countless hours sat in front of a screen twiddling knobs and tapping incessantly on keys without really achieving anything productive.  And they may be a modicum of truth in that hypothesis.  However, I can assure you that the time I have spent playing has been (for the most part) well-chosen and has not adversely interfered with the normal running of my life.  It has of course been lots of fun.

First of all, I recently acquired something I have wanted for years – a steering wheel.  No, not for my car, but for the computer.  And since all my games are now on the PS2, it had to be one that I could plug into that.  An hour or so on eBay and a handful of reviews culminated in a purchase of a Logitech Driving Force EX steering wheel, which was plugged in and tested as soon as I was able (i.e. the evening of the day it arrived – see, I didn’t skip work for this), driving my current favourite game: Gran Turismo 4.

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“Time is an illusion.  Lunchtime doubly so.”  So said the great and oft-misquoted Douglas Adams.  And how right he was in his observation.  We fill our lives with so much ’stuff’ that there is rarely time left over to indulge in that age-old tradition of ’sitting and doing nothing’.  That’s something I’ve done precious little of lately, through a combination of an unusually high quantity of work and an influx of new ways to fill that ’spare’ time in between work, sleep and mealtimes.

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