Wii Love Fish
Well, Michelle surprised me by trying to go and get me a Nintendo Wii this morning. She woke up at 5:45 AM to stand in line. Unfortunately, she did not anticipate the gamer geeks showing up six hours earlier and camping out for the second console. The way she describes it sounds a bit like those guys that wait in line in full costume to see movies. That is one of the reasons Michelle is allowed to break up with me. Costumed geeks in line at a theater are just lame. I think standing in line to get a video game console I already own is another good reason. Although Michelle was unable to obtain a Wii for me, my cousin gave me a call and told me he got one for me. Apparently he has some famliy connection on the other side of the family that knows someone high up in Nintendo. I get a console for under market value. So to all those assholes on Craigslist taking advantage of the holiday season, “Up yours buddies!”
In other extremely exciting news, I got my fish tank up and running. After I originally filled it, the water was extremely cloudy. Hours of filtering, followed by hours of letting the dust settle, were of no use. I drained it and refilled the whole thing by hand. I am tired, but I am quite happy with the result.
It’s a bit noisy right now as I am running a second filter to seed the tank, soon I will hear only the gentle hum of the canister filter. Since I am still seeding the tank, I am quite understocked in fish, but you can take a look at what the fish look like.
December 17th, 2006 at 11:29 pm
Nice box of water.
December 18th, 2006 at 2:39 pm
Isn’t there some sort of recall on the wii? Like the controllers have parts that fly off and break TVs?
December 18th, 2006 at 2:51 pm
People are claiming that the straps break and when you’re making motions like bowling, the remote goes flying into the TV. I haven’t read up on it, but based solely on pictures, I think that’s crap. The straps are like what come with digital camera. They look like they’re weaved together pretty well. I can see how if your hand is sweaty you might let the controller fly out of your hand and the strap could slip off if there is no way to tighten it, but I can’t imagine them breaking. We shall see. We’ll test on your television.
Can you imagine if I threw the controller at my fish tank and it broke?