Well that didn't take long.  I now own a 360.  The price cut was not a lie, and came into immediate effect today, making the premium a mere £200 with one game!  Bargain no?

You're probably wondering, 'Phil, do you ever get tired of being right all the time?'
Well let me answer that for you.  No.  No I don't.

No seriously though, I have encountered one tiny flaw in my purchase.  I don't have a TV.  And I sure don't have a HD TV so... gonna need to buy one of those now :-P  Just a teeny little 25"er or something... nothing fancy.
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I never did say much about the car did I?

Still don't have any cool pics of it - Carlos and I drove up to the peak district on Saturday to catch up and stuff, which would have made for some nice shots but the weather was... severe. 

Ah well. 

In the meantime, just so you all know, here's a stock image of it:

So yeah, black Ford Fusion.

Yay!

In other news, I'm booking a flight to Budapest tonight, heading out in a few weeks for a well deserved break.  While I'm there, I'll be posing as a Philosophy Post Graduate at a conference for a few days, then it's just chilling out and exploring the Hungarian city.

We're living the dream people - living the dream.

Next in line for consumer life style might well be an X-Box 360, though I've just heard today, that the German Financial Times leaked some info about an EU 360 price cut, which is meant to be announced this Friday - so don't buy one this week whatever you do.  Even if the prices on the continent go down, it might not happen in the UK for a while longer, but it will be on it's way.  Worth waiting a few days on anyway.

A little further down the line, I'm thinking about property.  I'm going to be saving up to buy if I can, and from 3 weeks time onward, I can start looking at mortgages.  I've made no decisions about this.  Part of me wants to just throw it off and make another big move - it's a BIG world and I want to live in it.  Sometimes Manchester feels too small - it's like a convo I was having a while ago, about how, having lived outside the town, coming back to Rochdale, you feel, I dunno - kinda like a big fish in a small pond.  It's not really that you're a big fish actually... just... you're very aware of how small the pond is, and you've known so much wider... being.  It's just as true of Manchester.  Once you've been in a place where you can't see the limits, it's hard to stay put.

At the same time - I want to buy a house - to own property and invest in a place.  To be in community for real, and grow with that community for the long haul.

I go for a RAF thing in a few weeks, to see what my next steps are.  At the same time, I sign my more permanent contract with work and hope for their further investment in me.  And as I said - I'll have the mortgage figures.

Church this week was strangely fitting.  It was about asking yourself what God wants in your choices.  A warning not to just plan and scheme for ambition in itself, or for your own desires, but just to remember before making these kinds of calls, your first step is to get your head in the right place, be a little humble, and ask what He has planned for your life.  In a sense, it's easier to be the kind of person who doesn't cope well with planning or have a ambitions - then you'll happily ask God every step of the way.  But for those of us who can, and in fact, really like the fact that we can cope with decisions and the wider picture of control in our life... it's easy for us to get carried away with ourselves.  And when it comes to it, we really aren't in any more control of life than the dippy ones.

Bleh - that wasn't coherent, sorry - I'm not done chewing it over to be honest - I want to process it all with slow and thoughtful meditation.  It came at a good time anyway because life is about to start asking me this question a lot: 'What do you want?', and it'd be all to easy just to answer.

Alright then - be good folks.
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What do you mean no comic?  There's a picture of a Ford Fusion and an x-box 360 - what more could you ask for?