I guess I didn’t mention that we got an upgrade on the cruise - basically our room got moved to a place on the ship where we won’t be required to pump bilge water ;) Seriously though, we got bumped up about three levels on the ship, though we’re still an inside cabin. Should be a fun time, and I guess it’s getting closer and closer every day. It’s getting colder here, so it will be feeling like time to leave town pretty soon too.

My Grandma is in town tonight, so we’ll likely go over to mom & dad’s place for some cards or something. Grandma’s always fun to have around, she’s got a good sense of humour (either that, or she just laughs to humour us :) and is easy to entertain.

Went to mom & dad’s last night for the weekly family night thing, I keep forgetting to take my GT3 steering wheel back from there. Oh well, maybe someday I’ll get around to remembering it. I fixed Chew Man Fu (TG16 game) for mom - she used to be seriously addicted to it, and then it stopped working. Turns out that the contacts on the card were just dirty. All it took was a white eraser, and we were up and running. We played through the first 50 levels last night, beating the first “cloud” My thumb is out of shape for playing that game though. Interestingly, having put in literally hundreds and thousands of hours on the game, Erin pointed out something to us that we hadn’t noticed before. Apparently when you have a “bloop” (there’s no real name for it, that’s the sound it makes when you use it) you flash. Before that, we didn’t really have any way of telling, short of running into a baddie (a “bloop” lets you hit a bad guy without dying, but you can only have one at a time) It’s kind of amazing how much that game has been played, really. I figured that the TG16 itself is likely in the 10 year old range, and still going strong - I think I should order a couple of new controllers, but that’s not too bad. We still pull it out and play 5-player games on it every now and then. Not much beats a good game of Moto-roader (No, Clinton, we will not put it on rich for you.)

Simpson’s quotes are taking a long weekend - their fill in replacement will be none other than the Wizard from Chew Man Fu: “They’re tough, but they can’t dance like you” or better yet “It’s time to relax and eat rice”