I had a peculiar experience this evening. It’s something that happens to me every now and then, a few times a year. I go to sleep early – much earlier than I would normally – late afternoon or early evening, and I wake up at around ten o’clock, and, because I don’t often have naps like this, it feels like it’s the morning. So right now, I feel wide awake. I assume it’s because my routine is fairly consistent, and, as I said, I nap perhaps once or twice a year, and so it’s peculiarly disorienting. I fell asleep at about five, and woke up at half nine, but it felt like it was much later.

YES I’M FULLY AWARE THAT’S NOT VERY INTERESTING.

In all honesty, though, it’s the most interesting thing that happened to me today. Beyond that, it would be ‘I said goodbye to my brother who’s gone camping, then sat around watching Stargate, ate some lunch, did some work, felt a bit sick then went to sleep’. Which is probably about as dull as ‘Isn’t it weird when you fall asleep in the afternoon and then wake up and it feels like the morning?’ There you go. I would, however, like to recommend the really rather good Extra Credit (or whatever it was called before), a series of videos by Daniel Floyd, which has recently moved to The Escapist. Also, the Ray Peacock podcast, the podcast that Peacock and Gamble did before the Peacock and Gamble podcast, featuring Raji James, who ruined Eastenders, as their punching bag. I would have said it was even funnier than the current Peacock and Gamble podcast. (the link is to the directory containing the podcasts – it’s the only place I’ve found where you can get the old stuff. Scroll down a bit. It’s really, really good. That’s all for today, see you tomorrow!

I’ve spent the last few minutes playing The Curfew, an educational online game created by Channel 4 in conjunction with Littleloud, and written by Kieron Gillen. Calling it an online educational game created by Channel 4 might be underselling it somewhat, in that you’ll probably assume it’s terrible. Well, it isn’t that terrible. It’s actually a rather interesting experiment, and I think it’s more engaging than most of the awful crud masquerading as learning resources that’s out there. It’s meant to teach you about political awareness and civil liberties and suchlike. The story is told though your interactions with four characters, of which only one is accessible at the moment. You’re meant to decide who’s trustworthy enough to hand some secret data over to by listening to their stories – playing through them in flashback – and you find out about the totalitarian police state the country has become, with your secret data potentially being the key to overthrowing the government, although there’s a rather obvious plot point which would seem to suggest what the data is, and some of this does seem a little heavy-handed, but hey ho, it’s not terrible, and the world has at least been well-imagined. Go and play it, see for yourself. It’s worth your time if you have some to spare.

I went for a walk with my parents, brother and grandmother on the North Yorkshire Moors this morning. Jolly nice it was too. We saw a crop circle from the hill we were walking on – unfortunately the picture’s on my dad’s camera, otherwise I’d share it. Then in the evening my grandmother took us out for a lovely dinner at a pub called The Dormouse with my aunt and uncle. It was lovely. Then we came home and watched QI on Dave for a bit. Great day. Tomorrow, I might get around to finishing that Predators review, or even my Toy Story 3 review. For now, however, goodnight.

Tomorrow will be my review of Predators (really good – two decapitations and a head ripped off via the spinal cord) , which I saw this evening with some friends – happy birthday George, by the way – but unfortunately, right now I am both too full of popcorn, pizza and Coke, and also too tired, to do that. I’ve got a bit of a headache, and feel the tiniest bit sick, but I’ve got a long car journey tomorrow, so hopefully, I’ll have the time and inclination to write it then. Right now, I can’t manage. All I can say is that the X-Men: Oranges: Tangerine game, which my father is playing at the moment, is an awful lot like Arkham Asylum crossed with The Force Unleashed. Quite good as well – you do some rather messy damage to people in a cartoonishly entertaining fashion. Anyway, that’s all for today. Goodnight.