So, there was a post on Kotaku a few days ago where they mentioned that x soft drink company was running a contest where you could win one of a few different digitally-distributed games, provided you gave them an email address.

Now, I haven’t won any game-related contests since Sega sent me a NiGHTS baseball cap back in, oh, 1996 or so, but I don’t think I’ve entered any since then.  So, basically I was batting a thousand and figured that the worst I could do was drop to five hundred.

As luck would have it, I wound up with a free copy of Braid for the 360, which I had been putting off getting – despite the overwhelmingly positive reviews – because it costs 1200 Microsoft Points.  That’s not me being cheap – everything I’ve heard suggests that the game is well worth the 1200 points.  Unfortunately, I only have 800 in my account, so I’d have to drop $20 on a 1600 point card to buy Braid and then I’d have 1200 points left over with no 2d shooters coming out any time soon.

So anyway, I have Braid, and I look forward to giving it a try sometime after I finish Dead Space, which will be in about a week if I can stick to my one-level-a-night schedule.

Oh, and the pudding last night was pretty much a failure.  The recipe I made a couple of nights ago used 2 cups of rice to 1/2 cup of sugar, and this was 1 cup rice 1 cup sugar.  I  finished mine and immediately went and brushed my teeth, and even after using some pretty damn minty toothpaste I could still taste the sugar.