For Christmas, Suzy got More Brain Training from Dr Kawashima: How Old is Your Brain for her Nintendo DS. I’ve been playing it a little bit to see whether I’ve managed to maintain my “brain age” of 20, which is the best score you can get and what I achieved on the last version. (I’m currently scoring the same as my real age, so that’s pretty good given that my brain’s probably a bit out of practice.)

Anyway, one of the new games to help train your brain is Word Blend. Several words are played simultaneously through the speaker and you then have to write on the screen what you heard, testing your hearing and spelling abilities. After several failed attempts to write down one of the words I heard the other day, I finally gave up. And what did it say the answer was?

TOMATOE

How can I ever trust Dr Kawashima again?!

Labels: gadgets, personal, rant

In my first post of 2007 I listed some resolutions and told you to come back in a year to find out how I got on. So let’s compare how I actually did with how I thought I’d do...

1. Run the Sheffield Half Marathon – 0% (down from 99%)
2. Try to look smarter at work – 75% (down from 95%)
3. Eat evening meals at the table – 50% (down from 90%)
4. Play guitar for at least one hour every week – 10% (down from 85%)
5. Give blood more regularly – 100% (up from 80%)
6. Only go on my PC if I’ve got something I actually need to do – 75% (up from 50%)
7. Play my trumpet every once in a while – 0% (down from 30%)
8. Get an allotment to grow my own vegetables – 0% (down from 20%)
9. Volunteer my services to the local amateur theatrical society – 0% (down from 10%)
10. Come up with an idea for a website that will make me rich – 0% (down from 1%)
11. Watch more live bands – 100% (up from 75%)

Basically I managed to go through with six out of eleven (to some extent) but only completely managed to keep to two. Due to my poor success rate, I will not be making any resolutions for 2008. I’ll just try to make sure that Daddy McRiley sticks to his and use the rest of my time to master Guitar Hero III on my Wii!

(If you want to see how I’m doing, check out my profile on the Guitar Hero Community website. And if you’ve got Guitar Hero on the Wii and fancy challenging me, let me know your friend code.)

Labels: personal, wii