Finally got to see a real live American Football game when I went to the game between New Orleans Saints and San Diego Chargers played in Wembley Stadium London on the October Bank Holiday Weekend.
Had a bit of misfortune last week during a hurling game when I tore my achilles tendon. After surgery to repair it I’m now in a cast and on crutches for 6 weeks to be followed by plenty of physio to get the foot working properly again. At the moment I’m laid up at home taking it easy with the leg up.
Just got very nostalgic as I came across the Amstrad 6128 Plus computer, the system that started my journey into the world of computers and contributed immensely to my current career path of programming. I think I was about 12 when Santa Claus delivered one and it has to have been the most significant and most used present I ever got. Everyone else at that time had their Commodore 64s and eventually their Amigas but I got years out of that Amstrad. My programming skills developed over countless hours of typing, modifying and creating BASIC programs.
It had a weird 3″ floppy disk drive that meant games were hard to come by, particularly in Laois/Kilkenny, but some of the games it did have were great, check out the version of Batman The Movie via Youtube.
Must have a root around and see if it’s still at home somewhere!