Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Christmas was good. Together we were totally spoiled by her mother and her boyfriend who bought us a new washer and dryer to replace the pair that have recently burned out on us. Holy shit! Separately we also made off like bandits with me taking in enough sleep ware to completely replace my horribly aging sets as well as a new MEC bag, a pink belly dancing belt (hubba), DVDs jewelery, USB rechargeable batteries, enough chocolate to kill me, and numerous other things I can't recall at this time. Oh, I also got another cat. Well, only kind of - official custodianship of Abby (our black butterball) has been transferred to me because we're utterly and totally smitten with one another. She's sitting on me as I write this, in fact.

What I really wanted to talk about was the impact that the Wii made at our holiday dinner. We had 4 guests on Christmas day who're all (no offense intended) technological Luddites. Two share a computer they aren't comfortable with and none of them could be classified as "gamers." Having said that, it was impossible to tear them away from the Wii. Bowling in particular was a huge hit with every one of the newbies kicking my (substandard) ass at some point or another. Nintendo has really come up with something special in the Wii. By the end of the night everyone expressed interest in having their own and coming from folks who otherwise show no interest in games this is a Big Thing. If the reactions in other households are the same then Nintendo may indeed have a second device (along with the DS Lite) that prints money.

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