Lazio and Vikings almost always run in parallel, right down to alternating good-and-bad seasons-- but this year has been especially uncanny. The most recent example came today: Lazio went on the road to a lousy Monza side, played an almost unwatchably bad game, yet squeaked out with a win anyway; meanwhile, Vikings went on the road to a lousy Jacksonville side, played an almost unwatchably bad game, yet squeezed out with a win as well.

In other news my PlayStation 5 Pro is due to arrive tomorrow, I'll have fun playing with that. It'll be a nice upgrade which will bring things closer to what my PC can deliver. At the same time, it'll undoubtedly make me miss the old days when getting a new video game system meant moving from the Atari 2600 to a Sega Genesis, or having a shiny new Sega Saturn under the TV, or something similarly Earth-shattering.

I think that's part of why I like old consoles so much: I sit in front of my Japanese PC Engine Duo-R, and imagine the excitement the person who bought it originally must have felt, sitting there playing games like "Gate of Thunder" and "Castlevania: Rondo of Blood" when they were brand new.