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Last night, Meri and I decided to buy a Nintendo Wii. We’ve been talking about it since it first came out (Nov 19, 2006) and I described to her how it was different than every other system out on the market. The Wii came with Wii Sports, a controller and a nunchuk.We bought Wii Play as well since it came with a second controller.

Last night, we played for almost two hours! One thing that I thought was really cool on the Wii was that a message is sent to you with a “total time played” when you are finished playing. The Wii Sports game is really fun! The boxing is physically demanding enough to make me sweat after only playing it for about 20 minutes or so.

I know that we are going to get Wii Fit whenever we can find it – it costs around $90. Other than that, I’m torn as to what other game I want to get next. I have a small list going – in no particular order.

• Mario Kart Wii – comes with a steering wheel
• We Ski
• Metroid Prime 3 – Corruption
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2008 (or 2009 or whatever)
• The Legend of Zelda – Twilight Princess

I was surprised to see that Meri actually had fun with it. She generally doesn’t like video games. I think Aaron will really like playing this system and we’ll all be able to have fun with this as a family.

That’s right, I’m a dork.

The current ringer on my phone (link is to an mp3) is a sound from the World Of Warcraft game and can be found on WoWWiki. You gotta love those Murlocs! My wife hates it, I laugh every time my phone rings.

If that isn’t enough, I registered emails for both of my son’s, which was inspired by an idea that I saw on the official Gmail blog. Maybe I’ll use it, maybe I won’t. My intentions are good.

Tags: gmail, aaron, eli, email, dork

WoW is awesome! I’m not addicted as some people I know are but I enjoy playing. I won’t be playing much once my family is back with me but until then, I’ll be playing me some Wow!

I talked my boss into letting me work from Memphis two weeks at a time, instead of our originally negotiated one week. Two weeks with the family at a time?! Who would have ever thought I wouldn’t be spending all of my time with them?! This has been one of the more difficult times in our lives, especially now that Aaron is fairly aware of what is going on.

Meri took Aaron trick-or-treating tonight and she said that he loved it. Aaron got to knock on every door and say “Happy Hawoween” (he has issues with his L’s). The when the people would put candy in his pumpkin, he would fish it out, tell them what it was, and then say “Thank you for [insert candy name here]“. I really wish I could have been there with them! He asked Meri if tomorrow was Happy Halloween again and then asked if there was going to be any more trick-or-treating again tomorrow. This is the first year that he’s been into it like this. Next year will be fun too! I’ll just look forward to that.

In other Wood family news, a woman came to look at our house for the second time in 3 days! I’m going to take that as a sign that she liked it a lot the first time. Our realtor seems to be stepping up lately and really getting the ball rolling. As much as we disliked her style initially, she does seem to have a fire under her ass now, for which we are thankful.

Now, back to WoW! I’m Nakhand on the Ner’zhul server in case anybody is interested…