What did you do with your Saturday?

I slept late, ate breadsticks, shot some friends with rocket launchers and raced cats.

Sadly, I didn't see naked men jumping off bridges.

That privilege is reserved for James (and perhaps Andrew D).

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If the first line is in any way confusing, I should probably clear up that I did indeed sleep late and eat breadsticks (although I may have had a few additional food items during the course of the day), but that the rockets and cats were via X-Box.

Steve and I are currently playing a game called TimeSplitters: Future Perfect. Perhaps slightly obsessively, considering that we put off lunch until finishing a particularly difficult level. It's a bit like a lot of other shooters, but with the bonus that the game seems to have been designed by someone of a fairly offbeat sense of humour. One of the many available minigames/'challenges' involves driving around a race course, with a certain time limit in place before the next challenge can be unlocked.

Normal, apart from the fact that instead of a car, you control a cat on wheels, whose name is Strudel. It makes annoyed noises when you hit the walls - a bit worrying, considering it's supposed to be stuffed.

More relevantly, it slides around all over the place when you take a corner, meaning that speedy corners usually end with you facing the opposite direction to the way you're actually supposed to be going, it has a fairly high centre of gravity (what with being a wheeled cat with rigid legs), lending it a fairly incredible ability to fall over if it wobbles at all, and it's capable of flipping 360 degrees if you hit the walls at just the perfect angle...

I don't really think any description I can give will cover the comedy value of three 'adults'(?) attempting to manouevre said cat around an icy racecourse involving a ski ramp. Making the time limit was a sort of incidental thing - we were mostly just commentating and giving each other style points for the best near-disaster-but-saved corners and the best ways to fall off the ramp.

There were a few rockets involved in different parts of that game, but most were when playing a few Rockets/Slayer rounds in Halo... yes, again. Shut up. It's fun. And I actually won a game... admittedly not against Steve or CF... but dammit, I won a game, and we've already been through the geek dissertation.

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Oh yes - don't forget: ASNaC humour is weird. I wish I could describe the injokes we heard tonight, but even if I could remember what they'd said, I have no clue how to spell any of it.

Obviously the Middle Ages were populated with many people all talking a bit like Welsh farmers with chronic throat problems.