If I could remember a single thing about the drive home, I'd relate it.
Moving on: the average age of the items I purchased at Best Buy: 13.333333. Yikes. This is what happens when you're naturally behind the times, and also short on cash thanks to a speeding ticket. They were, in order of age:
Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here (1975)
I'll never tire of this band. Even though I don't own anything from before Meddle, but hey, I'm missing out on the one with the guy who went crazy from the drugs and the several that are meandering experimental wrecks. (I jest. Piper, at the very least, I intend to pick up one of these days, and the band themselves have pretty much disowned everything between Piper and Meddle.) Anyway, the album's only 5 songs long, but damn. These boys could write music. Or, more probably, these boys could jam flawlessly for hours on end and then edit it down to stick it on vinyl.
Serenity (even though the collector's edition came out in 07, I'm crediting this one as 2005, otherwise I have to go back and do the math again.)
It's one of those movies I honestly wish I hadn't known who was going to die beforehand. Oh, by the way, for anyone who hasn't seen it (and you're seriously depriving yourselves), spoiler alert: people die. Well, it's Joss Whedon. I won't claim to be surprised. Anyway, it's good. Really, really good. And for someone who grew up on Star Wars and felt badly cheated by the prequels, really really good is good enough for me.
Super Mario Galaxy (it says (C)2007 on the title screen, so I'll assume that's accurate).
Finally, I got a Wii game that requires the use of the Wii-mote and did not cause me to throw said Wii-mote down in frustration within two minutes. I'm considerably less apprehensive about the sequel now. Having said that, I hope they iron out the difficulty curve; the levels alternate between "I could have done that in my sleep" and "screw this, let's watch Serenity again." And back again. There is no middle ground. The Deep Dark Galaxy, for example, there's a trick you can use with the cannon to make levels one and two (and possibly three; I can't remember it) much easier. Otherwise in level two you're supposed to do this... you know what? I'm not even sure what you're supposed to do in level two. Oh, and they're not "galaxies;" they're star systems at best. Then again, "Super" Mario Sunshine proved that the developers never passed a 200-level Physics course, so I'm not really surprised that they got the nomenclature wrong here.
Okay, what else did I do? I did not do what I'd intended to do, which is get my guitar serviced. I decided to save that for Thanxgiving/Xmas instead. Good luck... I probably learned a new song, but at this point I don't remember what is and isn't in my repertoire. This may have something to do with the fact that I automatically assume that I can work out anything in my iTunes library that's lighter than Iron Maiden in less than three minutes. But enough about me; let's talk about me for a while.
On the way back the three noteworthy things were the three police cars pulling three people over in the construction zone on I-90. Rockford's getting a fat paycheck...
Also I did the bare minimum of homework.
-James
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