The woman at Best Buy carded me when I was buying Bioshock in Sunday. That's a first for me -- even bars aren't carding me anymore. I just laughed and handed her my ID. I was actually more surprised that people had been waiting in line since 7 am for the Wii (the store opened at 10 am). I can't believe that people are still waiting in line to get one. I still need to get one, but I refuse to wait in line for it. Though I may break down and do it. If supply doesn't increase before the holiday season, then moms will be getting in fistfights to get one for little Tommy.

Partly to test out the new bbcode embed function, and partly to annouce my addiction to Super Robot Taisen (why did I never play this before??), I present a gameplay movie:

You know you've played too much Puzzle Quest when you're looking at the colored tiles in the bathroom and start thinking you can get an extra turn if you move a tile to the right to get 4 in a row. I prefer not to think what you'd do with an extra turn in a bathroom though.

Every morning I turn to Headline News when getting ready for work to get the latest news. It goes through all the major items quickly, so you know what's going on in a nutshell. Well, for the past week they have been playing nothing but the freaking Anna Nicole Smith trial. I mean, is there really nothing more important that they dedicate whole hours to this trial? The regular CNN channel has real news content, so what gives? I have to either switch to Fox news (shudder) or Saved by the Bell. Oh who am I kidding, I usually end up watching the latter anyway! /rant

But it got me thinking, why are people interested in that trial anyway? We as a society look down upon sex in games,movies, etc...and here we are glorifying a stripper. What's more impressionable to kids: the Hot Coffee mod that 99.9% of people never saw, or the news media making Anna Nicole Smith seem like an important person?

That's what the waitress wanted to say to us, at least. I met a couple buddies at a bar to watch the Superbowl this afternoon. They had an amazing deal: $3 Coors Light, and you get to keep the glass. Now this wasn't any ordinary pint glass; it was the kind that has an air pocket between glass layers to help keep the drink cooler and prevents the glass from sweating. After 4 glasses per person, they abruptly 'cut us off'. As in, we now got our drinks in plastic cups.  We managed to snag two more when my lady went up to the bar, but they quickly realized that she was with us and told her "no more". Apparently we were hogging all the glasses and they wanted to keep some
for the regulars. I think that it should of been a first come first
serve deal, and not this spread the love garbage. Still, we had the front row for a big screen TV, so we had perfect seats to watch the sloppy game.

I ran three races over the Thanksgiving holiday: Turkey Trot 5K in Fort Worth, Run Wild 5K in San Francisco, and a Wii race in both Texas and California. The first two races were fun, though I didn't beat my personal record. We had timing chips in the Fort Worth race tied to our shoes, and when I crossed the finish line at 25 minutes, I looked down and saw that my chip was gone! I was pretty upset because it wouldn't record my time without it. But when I checked the race results, it had my time recorded. No idea how it happened, but hey it worked out. The Run Wild race was also special because it's the first race my girlfriend has done. A few months ago she couldn't do a half mile. Now she's doing 3 miles without any problem. It was fun running the race with her.

Now the last race was the worst. I didn't preorder a Wii, and I couldn't wait in line. So I woke up early on Sunday the 19th to try to find a Wii before my flight to Texas. We drove to several Targets with no luck. I really thought there would be a surplus...I'm disappointed at the lack of units. Once in Texas, I called Best Buy every couple days to see if they got shipments. No dice there. Oh well, guess this is turning into a marathon--I'll get a Wii whenever one shows up in a store.