Usually the gap between blogs is 10-12 days at the most but its strange to only get around to writing on the 22nd of the month so rather than write a very long three week summary of what has been a good month so far, it is best to just pick out the highlights and minor negatives.
The biggest highlights have come from my sporting trips out with my first trip to Anfield in over a year on Sunday the 10th as Liverpool took on
Borussia Dortmund and what a great game to witness as Liverpool secured a 4-0 win. The chance to finally visit the Hillsborough Memorial was amazing as I was able to pay my respects to the 96 by tying my most treasured scarf to the famous gates on what was a very emotional afternoon.
Due to exiting the Challenge Cup in the last eight, Wigan have only played once so far this month due to two game weeks being devoted to the cup but Thursday the 14th saw a 224 mile round trip up to Hull to face Hull Kingston Rovers.
A brilliant game saw Wigan seal a 14-14 draw right at the end and a fun coach trip with Jay and Jake made the night even better even though after setting off from home at 3pm, I didn't arrive home until 1.30am on Friday.
However, I was able to go to Orrell on Friday the 8th to see the Wigan U19's stun top of the table Warrington U19's in a superb game ending 36-16 to the young Warriors and in the next few weeks there will be two more trips to Orrell hopefully with a similar outcome.
Also after taking in a friendly against Fleetwood last month, I have been back to watch Skem United at home with a friendly against Burscough on Tuesday the 2nd followed just last week by the first game of the new season against Halesowen Town which saw Skem miss out on a win late on in a 1-1 draw.
Away from sport, there was some limited progress on the career front as I was invited for an interview at Festive Lights in Wigan on Thursday the 7th but sadly have not had any response since the interview so I assume I have been overlooked for a job yet again this year.
However, the free time between job searching and trips out to watch my teams have seen four of my 2014 goals completed which began right at the start of the month when I reached 20,000 views across my two YouTube channels which I very good seeing as I haven't posted many new videos in recent months.
My visit to Anfield for the Dortmund friendly saw my goal of attending a game this year fulfilled but hopefully it won't be the last but the biggest accolades came with two of my gaming goals completed and two that have ended far quicker than expected.
By reaching 138,526 TA and 98,280G it means that I have earned more TA points and gamerscore in just over eight months this year than I did in the entirety of 2013. That in a way shows that I have had far too much free time this year to have made so much more progress than at this time last year and if the progress continues it will my best year of gaming Xbox wise since I began back in 2007.
Despite there being only nine days left this month which will see a mini summary after such a big coverage in this post but the trend of a packed month may allow for more content as follows...
The biggest highlights have come from my sporting trips out with my first trip to Anfield in over a year on Sunday the 10th as Liverpool took onBorussia Dortmund and what a great game to witness as Liverpool secured a 4-0 win. The chance to finally visit the Hillsborough Memorial was amazing as I was able to pay my respects to the 96 by tying my most treasured scarf to the famous gates on what was a very emotional afternoon.
Due to exiting the Challenge Cup in the last eight, Wigan have only played once so far this month due to two game weeks being devoted to the cup but Thursday the 14th saw a 224 mile round trip up to Hull to face Hull Kingston Rovers.
A brilliant game saw Wigan seal a 14-14 draw right at the end and a fun coach trip with Jay and Jake made the night even better even though after setting off from home at 3pm, I didn't arrive home until 1.30am on Friday.
However, I was able to go to Orrell on Friday the 8th to see the Wigan U19's stun top of the table Warrington U19's in a superb game ending 36-16 to the young Warriors and in the next few weeks there will be two more trips to Orrell hopefully with a similar outcome.
Also after taking in a friendly against Fleetwood last month, I have been back to watch Skem United at home with a friendly against Burscough on Tuesday the 2nd followed just last week by the first game of the new season against Halesowen Town which saw Skem miss out on a win late on in a 1-1 draw.
Away from sport, there was some limited progress on the career front as I was invited for an interview at Festive Lights in Wigan on Thursday the 7th but sadly have not had any response since the interview so I assume I have been overlooked for a job yet again this year.
However, the free time between job searching and trips out to watch my teams have seen four of my 2014 goals completed which began right at the start of the month when I reached 20,000 views across my two YouTube channels which I very good seeing as I haven't posted many new videos in recent months.
My visit to Anfield for the Dortmund friendly saw my goal of attending a game this year fulfilled but hopefully it won't be the last but the biggest accolades came with two of my gaming goals completed and two that have ended far quicker than expected.
By reaching 138,526 TA and 98,280G it means that I have earned more TA points and gamerscore in just over eight months this year than I did in the entirety of 2013. That in a way shows that I have had far too much free time this year to have made so much more progress than at this time last year and if the progress continues it will my best year of gaming Xbox wise since I began back in 2007.Despite there being only nine days left this month which will see a mini summary after such a big coverage in this post but the trend of a packed month may allow for more content as follows...
- The trip to Widnes next Friday which will complete the goal of visiting every Super League away ground in one season with the obvious exception of Catalan which has proved illusive but hopefully will be a goal for 2015 but I can still say I will have visited all UK based teams.
- A third visit of the year to Langtree Park but for a change not for an actual game as I will be attending on Thursday for the local launch of the late Steve Prescott's autobiography.
- Hopefully the long wait after my interview could see an happy ending but if not an interview for another job maybe the best hope for success.
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