From my time away on Wordpress.com:
What do you get a 41-year-old techie for his birthday?
A
Nintendo Wii, of course!
(Now that they are finally available on the Free Market -- at Wal-Mart in Dahlonega, GA, anyway.)(I have to mention here that my favorite store is Target -- I am not a Wal-Mart shopper! -- but my inlaws helped me out by finding the Wii up in the mountains, at the Wal-Mart near their home, since they (the Wii's) are still nowhere to be found inside the City of Atlanta!)
We celebrated DH's birthday early this weekend. I am taking him away next weekend (on the birthday) for two nights to an undisclosed location, within an hour or so of Atlanta, just to get away to do nothing but relax, celebrate, and ease the pain of growing another year older (#41).
He's still lookin' good.
We'll probably end up lounging by the pool all weekend (weather permitting, please God!!). I'll read my
Vanity Fair magazine
[my all-time favorite mag], a good book or two, and do some scribbling on the novel. He'll catch up on his brain-candy (tech/men's mags) and listen to his iPod. We might even work on Our Project, which I'll talk more about soon, but not yet. (No, it's NOT another baby!)
And the present he opened last night, but we'll be leaving with the kids
(& Grammy) next weekend: the
Nintendo Wii w/extra controller. Woo hoo -- We were Wii-ing all afternoon yesterday with G'Ma & G'Pa [they already have their own Wii] on
Wii Sports (Bowling, Tennis, Baseball, etc.) and we now have our own little tribe of Mii's running around inside the Wii Universe. Even for a non-video gamer like myself, the Wii is pretty fun!
I've got to go find the
Wii Play game -- it comes with an extra controller.
(You do need one for each kid, so now we'll have 3 and probably get one more.) We'll be renting games for a while -- they are expensive, especially after all the investment in the basic hardware.
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