Weekend with the boys
My good friend James invited myself and Pete up to his place this weekend for our quarterly get together where we stay up late playing arcade games, pinball, watching This Old Pinball videos and shooting the shit. This time we added a new collector to mix by the name of Richard. Richard’s from Illinois and for only being into the hobby since ‘04, he has managed to acquire a collection of 43 games! His collection includes some rare cabs such as Q-bert Qubes and Food Fight. I’d say he’s off to a good start.
I brought my Wii over so James could get a chance to check it out. We had alot of fun playing each other in the various Wii Sports games. I stayed up until about 3:30am Saturday night playing Twilight Princess. It’s getting really interesting now and you never know what’s going to happen next.
Speaking of the Wii, the first official modchip, called Wiinja, has been released that allows you to play Wii & Gamecube backups along with Gamecube imports. It requires you to open up your Wii and solder 5 wires to it. I’ll definitely be waiting awhile before using any mod chips on my Wii, especially since there is no way to update the Wiinja. Seeing as updates for the Wii are released frequently, it’s very possible that Nintendo might start blacklisting Wii’s who have modchips connected to them. That’s not something I’m willing to risk.
I was hoping to do my taxes this weekend but then realized that my bank still hasn’t sent me my 1098 yet. The plan this year with our return is to pay off the credit cards and then use the rest to put towards materials for finishing the basement, starting with the gameroom and the full bath off from it. We’ll be starting with the bathroom which needs a shower insert, drywall for the ceiling and for boxing off the return air vents, wall coverings and floor tile. I need all the help I can get…
Ethan has been doing the cutest thing lately which is he wraps his arms around your neck and gives you the biggest hug. I’ll be holding him and he’ll just give me 3 hugs in a row. The first time he did it I about had tears in my eyes. It was too damn tender. Tonight he managed to slam his fingers into our bedroom door. He cried for 5 minutes straight and kept shaking his hand but was fine after that. Poor guy.
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