Nothing but wheels

I picked up NFS: Carbon from Bertie yesterday and have been playing that for quite a bit since then, it is a greatly flawed game but enjoyable enough for £13. I had almost completed it on the PC long ago, but have bought it again now to play it with Bertie, Andrew, Paul and Sam, and would be doing so if the online multiplayer system didn't take a dump on itself the very day I got my hands on my copy. I can only hope that it decides to fix itself as soon as possible, because this will have been a rather depressing purchase if it doesn't.

We had a bit of a gaming night with Alex and Dave at my brother's place last night, I got to try out Burnout Paradise and was highly impressed. Everything about it seems to be very well designed and implemented, discarding much of the absurd speeds and motion blurring from the previous games giving me little reason not to find this a very appealing game. The main problem is the price tag hanging at 40 bones, I've spent enough money as it is over the last month and have a busy week ahead of me, so I'll take another look at it in a week or so.

Today was quite exciting, I went for a driving lesson that ended up taking me all the way to Stevenage via Hertford, reaching a new high speed of 53 mph as I did it. The highly unfamiliar roads and extremely busy roundabouts gave me massive amounts of confidence and experience, exactly what I need. What I didn't need however was some lady smashing into the back of me as I stalled at a roundabout. I've still got that stalling problem whenever things get busy at a roundabout, and as I did it for a second time she shunted me very heavily up the backside. We pulled over to the side and fortunately neither of our cars had so much as a scratch on them, despite the force at which she hit me. We were both profusely apologetic about the whole situation before going our seperate ways, so no harm done.
Excluding that one mishap I found it to be a very good lesson, I might be having another tomorrow and if things keep going this well I might look at booking my intensive driving course some time after next weekend.