Of sports, sleep, bad console ports and The One Ring

I’m a football (also called soccer for some weird reason) fanatic, I admit it. And living in Australia is not helping this addiction much as I’m being deprived of sleep for following this beautiful game.
Like yesterday when I woke up at 4:30 am to see my team play in the Champions League against Olympic Marseille (you’ll have to guess which team I support).
This made me feel a bit like a zombie through the day but I’m more or less used to it as I do this “routine” almost once a week.
But let’s get on topic, which is supposed to be gaming.
While I was doing my daily checking of emails / websites / forums I discovered that Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 had a PC demo out, so I went to my ISP mirror and grabbed it (I’ll talk about the bandwidth-deprived Australiana internet experience some other day).
I only played it for around 10 minutes before dinner and I was very disappointed. Not with the game itself, which looks and plays great, but with the obvious laziness of the developers (Konami) that still don’t understand that a PC is not an Xbox 360 or a PS3 and assume that everybody plays their PC games with a game-pad? How hard will it be for them to change the code and the UI a bit and make this game feel like a PC game and not a half-arsed port?
I’ll give the game another go tonight but not for long as LOTRO is having a double XP weekend and hopefully that will take me closer to level 35 and a mount (if I can save enough gold for it that is).
Yes, LOTRO is my current MMO and also currently my main game, mostly thanks to that amazing thing called “Lifetime Subscription”, so a lot of the talk here will be about this wonderful game but the guys and gals at Turbine even though I don’t play each nearly as much as I would like to…

Here I am

Hello world!

Who the hell am I and why on earth am I writing another boring blog you may ask? (As I ask myself)
I am just another computer gamer amongst the millions of us in the world but I feel my way of gaming is not really reflected in most of the popular gaming sites and/or blogs.
Being on my early thirties and with a full time job and a family to look after my gaming habits are not those of the stereotype computer gamer, hence the “Casually Gaming” name for this blog.
With all my “real life” (hate the term) commitments my game time is very reduced and sporadic and I’ll be writing about it here, wether you like it or not.

I’ll be writing a bit more about myself, my family, my games and my love for technology so you are all warned…
So that’s it for now (that wasn’t that boring, was it?)