The day I became 12 again

Yesterday, August 25th, The Wii released Ys Book 1&2 for download on it's Virtual Console. If you're not familiar, instead of buying games at the store, The Wii has the option of having you buy games through the system like classic games for the NES, SNES and even some Wii games from indy-developers who might not having the marketing money to release games in the store.

Ys Book 1 & 2 originally came out for the Turbo Duo (old CD based system) and used to be one of my favorite games. I haven't played it in years and it was only $8 or something like that so I got it... and played it for 2.5 hours straight. This length of time may be chump change to most gamers but now that I have 3 kids and work full time this is the first time I've played a game for that long in one sitting in a good few years.

After taking a break from it for a short while, I turned it right back on and continued playing it until about 1am. Again, chump change in gamer time, but, again, 3 kids and what-not. Felt pretty good, too.

Life Marketing

I don't know the words to express how much I love marketing. Not just creative commercials, but creative ways to advertise, even for products I don't care about. This is something Verizon. People probably say it's life imitating art - I say it's brilliant!

Fun at Jokers

Jokers had a luau this past weekend complete with reggae band, all you can eat hawaiian buffet, games for the kids, stand-up comedy and a TON of other stuff. I didn't think to get much video of anything, we were having such a good time, but here's what little I got.

'scuse me?

I'll be honest, I've never seen High School Musical 2, but I guess there's some kind of pool scene? Anyways, to make money off the film they've released HSM2 shirts and clothing including underwear.

...something about buying my daughter High School Musical 2 underwear with the words "Dive In!" imprinted on'em doens't seem right.

Patrick Star!

Being in radio, you get to meet famous people. People like "incredible hulk" Lou Ferrigno (a jerk in real life), Carlos Mencia (*WAY* funnier off camera than what you see on Comedy Central) and Carrot Top (*WAY* uglier in real life, but naturally funny and witty... and buff).

This past weekend I got to meet a true 'Star' in the form of Patrick from SpongeBob Square Pants. What did I learn about him?... in real life he's very quiet, didn't say a word. He's also made of cardboard and apparently shops at Ranch and Home. I'm here with Lily, but where's Laura? She got spooked. The video of her initial reaction.

I only wish I kept recording... a few moments after I turned the camera off, she actually pulled off the 'Flinstone Run' perhaps also known as the 'Scooby Doo Take-Off'. You know what I'm talking about. It's when you try to run away so fast that your legs are moving like Sonic the Hedgehog, but your body stays in the same place for a few seconds.