I don’t have a ton of time to play games these days, but in my spare moments I’ve been working on the Half-Life 2: Episode 2 achievement ‘Little Rocket Man’.

You basically have to carry a garden gnome through the whole episode and place him in a rocket:

This can be quite challening, especially during the car levels because the little guy goes flying out of the car way too easily! Still, I managed and was able to get him there. Far my hard work, I received:

Yay! There’s also a similar gnome achivement in L4D2 that requires you to do a similar feat, carry a garden gnome all the way through the carnival campaign. I’d like to do that one sometime as well. Perhaps on my mac!

In other news, my new job is awesome and we are working hard preparing our condo to sell or rent so we can get over to Scotland in August!