A break from the violence.

It's been a quiet week for GTA, what with the sleeping and the attending of the RMIT BAM 2005 Graduate Exhibition (yay to Andi again!).

I did turn the PS2 on last night. I thought I'd give dating Millie a go. Surprisingly enough, she was at home the first time I went around and I found a restaurant in an area that she likes and it was all smooth sailing. I might melee attack her with a bouquet of flowers next time. You can actually do this. I did this the first time with Denise because I didn't know that to hand your girlfriend the flowers, you press 'L1' and not 'O' (which is the attack button). Yes... even with all my cheat notes and walkthroughs, I can still do stupid things. I'm very talented.

Since I had the PS2 on, I thought I'd just drive around Las Venturas and see if there were any side missions to do. I think I'm just avoiding doing any missions that involve flying. Flight school was very traumatic, after all.

In my travels, I happened to stumble upon Officer Tenpenny and I thought I'd see what he wanted. He asked me to track an agent and re-acquire some vital evidence being held against him. I thought this would be easy enough and would involve a car chase. I don't know why I keep trying to predict this game. I ended up having to chase the agent in a helicopter. I actually caught up to him!!! Then I gunned him down in a carpark and stole his briefcase and that was that.

Realising that there's probably no way I'm going to get around these flying missions, I turned off the PS2. I don't foresee any progress unless tonight's dinner is cancelled or I decide not to go to work tomorrow night. And no, I'm not contemplating chucking a sickie either.

So until Saturday, it's timeout for Carl Johnson.