For a while I’ve been attempting to persuade WorkTommy to get on t’internet and he’s been avoiding it. After many, many months of me blathering on about just how fun XBox Live stuff is, he finally relented and said he would. A few obsticales were in his path, such as not actually having a phone line and there being no cable companies around here. As part of the “ooh, you’re getting t’internet” process we said we’d take each other on at games and the like and somehow that became a challenge.

We chose Red Alert 2 as the game of choice. I’m not exactly sure how that game choice came about, possibly because the RTS genre is a pretty good choice for a one on one challenge and is a genre we’re both familiar with and enjoy. In order to make things interesting we decided to make the challenge a bet. After thinking about things for a while I came up with a forfeit (because money bets are silly, far better to embarass someone...) - the loser of the challenge has to wear a T-Shirt with the winner’s face on it and the words “Winner is my hero!” on it (where winner is the name of the winner, obviously).

I remember one of my friends linking a place that took graphic files from you and stuck it on a T-Shirt and mailed it out to you but have no idea where the place is, or any similar ones are. Anyone got any ideas?

Soon: Part #2 - My Practise