Spending all my requisition

After 13 hours of waking torment I had a chat with some people and cheered the fuck up, so things haven't been so bad after the last few days.

I've been playing The Orange Box quite a bit this week, I got over the loss of keyboard and mouse on Half-Life 2 and Portal pretty quickly, and while the graphics aren't as good on Half-Life 2 as they are on my PC I've gotten used to it and can't really notice the difference anymore.
Team Fortress however, is mightily affected by the 360. The lack of accuracy with keyboard and mouse make spray&pray classes like the heavy and pyro, and splash damage classes like the Soldier and Demoman much more favorable, as getting a kill with any normal weapon is next to impossible. Also, the lack of dedicated servers really stings, a majority of the few servers there are at any one time are hosted by idiots whose connections can't manage more than eight players, which is bloody ridiculous on a game like TF2 where the optimal amount is at least double that.
Mostly I've enjoyed playing through Half-Life again, the achievements are absolutely brilliant for my completionist attitude, so I've been happily immersing myself in it, trawling through and completing each task.

I was all set and ready to install everything on my new hard drive this weekend, I had my list of programs to download and everything tidied up and organized ready to copy over. But as I plug in my 'new' HDD I find XP already installed on it, and as it tries to boot it simply fails and restarts every time I turn my computer on. I am mightily angry at ebuyer for sending me their used shit and am going to call them up tomorrow demanding not only a replacement, but compensation. I'm seriously pissed off about this and am not going to walk away from this empty handed.

One rather mega win this weekend was the acquisition of a Nintendo DS from my brother. He's given me his almost unused black Lite with a browser, so I got straight online and ordered a flash cart for £25, which is an absolutely fantastic total price when everything I'll have in the end will be worth about 10 times that. The problem is that while I'm sitting here with the DS in front of me, and an awesome list of games for it on my computer, I have to wait 14 to 28 days for it to arrive from Hong Kong. It's absolute heartbreak as I've got really excited about it and want to play it now.
Despite the long wait for that, it should be just in time for my trip to Blackpool. I was good to go for next week, but as Dad's using the car for what could be the next three weeks, I've got a long wait for that too. But at least when I do go I'll have plenty to occupy myself with when I'm not driving.