Productivity Hits All-Time Low

Yep, it had to happen eventually, and I finally pulled the trigger last week.  I went off and bought us a Wii.  The Wii Tracker website said Circuit City.com had a package deal, the system and a controller and two games for a not-so-low but still reasonable price, and I was just done waiting.  It arrived on Tuesday, fortunately the day after my last day of school.  I have been very disciplined, making sure I get my two hours of steno practice in first, before going near the thing.  It's deadly addictive!  

We're not thrilled with Tiger Woods 08 golf, although it's very beautiful.  It's just not terribly intuitive, and they give almost no instructions on how to play the game.  But they do give a zillion options on how to customize your character's face shape.  And I still can't figure out how to make my character play--what if I don't want to play as Tiger Woods, and watch him sulk when I suck up the hole?  I did eagle a couple of holes, though, that was exciting.

We are jazzed with the silly Wii Sports and Wii Play.  I think there's not much better than cow racing or bowling in your own not-so-smelly shoes, in the comfort of your living room.

The jury is still out on the Lego Star Wars Complete Saga--it's more complex than I could imagine and is going to take some serious research.  Should be fun.

C-Vo came over last night to get "baptized" in Wii.  I think we doused her good, some bowling, fishing, and cow racing, and a funny attempt at the "Expert" level of Wii Sports golf.  Good times!

My ever-so-awesome friend JJ in Florida just sent me Mario Kart and an additional wheel.  Dudes had sold out of them here locally, in the three places I checked!  And when she went to buy said Mario Kart, she found it sold out of about seven stores before she found one!  And they finally had the Wii consoles, after all that time she'd looked for one for me and couldn't find one.  Go figure.  MK is totally awesome, we played a couple different courses before our eyes went buggy and we had to quit for a while.  I look forward to playing online with JJ and maybe CL at some point--that's just the coolest concept.

Anyway, that's what's going on with me.  I ended my semester nearly passing a Q&A at 160, only hit 94% though.  I did kill my second jury charge at 160, so I'll be on to my 170s in the fall, and just at 140s still in the literaries.  Looking forward to focusing on and kicking some Q&A butt this summer.

Went camping last weekend up at Black River Falls and took my first fire shots, that was fun.  We'll paddle the Grant tomorrow, perhaps there will be something to write home about from that experience.