my mind's eye

Spent last weekend home alone. H and P went down to Florida to visit the grandparents, leaving me to play video games and ponder the secrets of the universe.

On the gaming front, I made some good progress on Twilight Princess. I put in 5 hours, though 2 hours were lost due to a glitch I found in the game. ( view glitch details... ) Long story short, I had a lot of fun. But it was a pretty lonely weekend.

In the lingering spirit of the holiday season and riding the high of having a new game console to play with, I called up my brother the other day because he works at WalMart. The conversation went something like this:

Me: "Hey, does WalMart have any Wii stuff? I have cash burning holes in my pockets."
Zeph: "Well we have a few *blahblahblah*, one Wii-mote, *blahblahblah*..."
Me: "You have a Wii-mote?!?!?!"
Zeph: "Yeah, just one."
Me: "Buy it for me? I'll pay you back tomorrow."
Zeph: "OK."

So now Das Bruce, H and I take turns playing 2-player Wii Sports! It's a blast. Except I suck at Tennis...

So thanks, bro. You rock!

In other news, I also picked up The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess for the Wii. Almost two hours into the game now, and it's very cool. More on that subject another day.

...that leads through my weekend...

I had a very long weekend. I swear it was four days instead of two. I didn't get enough sleep and I didn't set aside enough time for myself. Oh well. Next weekend, perhaps. For those interested, my weekend consisted of the following activities:

Folding laundry

Helping my sister move

Folding laundry

Attending a wonderful play entitled Plum Pudding at GSC

Folding laundry

Hanging out with Theman while...

...folding laundry

Going to church

Folding laundry

Going to my nieces' birthday party and

Folding laundry

There was a lot of laundry. It's mostly folded now, though. I am having coffee poured directly into my blood stream as we speak. That should get me through the day.

I did manage to get an hour of time in on the Game Cube to play The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. I vanquished Ganondorf, with Zelda's help of course. The ending was bitter-sweet. Hyrule is lost forever, but the world is once again safe from evil. It's so sad, yet so hopeful.

I am starting over again to play through faster and finding all the items. It should be fun.