One more time with feeling...

Do people still write in diaries?

Honestly, if I wanted to purchase a journal could I even find one or would the clerk just stare at me puzzled?

I ask because this is my third attempt at keeping an active blog. The first two just kind of fizzled out. The classic combo of work, television, and general laziness. But I have to think the folk that keep a diary don’t have these problems. To me a diary is something updated religiously. I doubt you’ll find many diaries with the gapping time holes that most blogs feature. It’s fun to think of some middle aged woman taking out her favorite pen every Tuesday night and chronicling her weekly adventures for the last 30 years. There’s something romantic abou—

What?

Shut up! People have favorite pens! I see. It’s going to be like that is it?

Fine. Whatever.

Anyway, I’m back and hopefully this time for good. My plan is to post here at least once a week. There’s no particular theme to this blog. Just whatever I feel like talking about. Let’s get to it then.

It’s quite strange to see The Mario Bros. in their 8-bit glory on a Hi-Definition TV. I got the video game urge the other day. Sadly I’m not cool enough to have a Wii. So I dusted off my old Nintendo and have been mashing buttons like it’s 1989. Sure the graphics are cheesy and the music is enough to make you wanna kick a puppy. But for the most part these games are just fun. See this is how I know I’m getting old. Well, that and my head’s refusal to grow hair. Stupid head. These games are just fun. But the kicker…I still suck at them.

I still can’t beat Mario 3…

The Ninja Turtles always die on my watch…

And I refuse to believe that anyone has every beaten Mike Tyson’s Punch Out. (Could Tyson be on digital Steriods?)

Still, good times.

In other news a Tyrannosaurs Rex was in my backyard.

Well…no. Not really. I can’t back that up.When Rachael (my lovely bride) and I moved into our new house last summer we had a horrid overgrown pond in the backyard. We decided to rip it out and fill it in, but we ran out of time and Winter crept in before we could fill it. So now we have these nasty Sarlacc pit outside. Thankfully the snow came and made the yard bright and clean. But it never quite snows enough to fully cover the hole. So we’ve got this big ol’ dinosaur footprint staring at us. I need to take a picture because it’s really bizarre looking. What I really want to do is get an exact model of the Superman ship. The one he crashed to Earth in as a baby. Wouldn’t it be cool to put that sucker in there and leave it uncovered? People'd be like, what's that? And I'd be like, Oh, just my ship. Excuse me a momment. I have to go fight crime.Wow.

What a first blog. Nintendo, Dinosaurs, and Superman. Why my wife loves me I’ll never now.

---BJS