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Tum-a-tee-tum, cho-co-late syrup, on-a my tongue!

Anyway.

It’s September now. Sarah and I have been married for over a year. It’s funny, though, it feels like we’ve always been married. Maybe I just block out too much of my life. I wonder what it would be like to remember things…

We’re going on vacation from the 15th to the 26th. Except, we’re not actually going anywhere. We’re just taking off work for two weeks. Earlier this year we decided our vacation would be buying a Wii and taking time off to play. I think that means we need to buy some new games in the next few weeks. I wish somebody would pawn their copy of Super Mario Galaxy so we could buy it cheap, like how we got Super Paper Mario. I don’t really want to pay fifty bucks for a video game.

Sometimes I wonder if my life would have been better had I gone to college. And by better, I mean, um, in the future, as I would have only just graduated a few months ago… ugh. Horrid idea. I don’t know why I hate school so much, but I do. I’m smart, I like learning, I write well, and for what classes I did take I have a 4.0… but the idea of taking classes all day and having papers and projects due, and getting loans and having to work part-time jobs instead of having one full-time job… it was too much for me.

Of course, the big thing was picking a major. I have no idea what kind of job I want. I work with computers right now, but I don’t know if that’s the kind of career I would want to study for. What does a Bachelor’s degree in computer science get you, anyway? If my brothers who had theirs at 19 are any indicator, the answer is debt and a Pizza Hut car topper.

I’ve considered joining the army, but the idea of the army I’ve had for so long doesn’t really fit with who I am. I’m not much of an out doors person, and I don’t really want to shoot anyone. I mean, yeah, only a fraction of the armed forces actually is in combat, I could easily be support troop, but somehow it seems like it would be wrong to join the army with the intent of not being a soldier. Then, of course, there’s the issue of it being a giant pay cut.

Sigh.

It’s not like we’re having money problems or anything. Sarah and I have no debt, we’ve got plenty in savings, and we’re both working steady jobs. But, we want to buy a house and have kids. Buying a house isn’t really a problem, as we would just switch from paying rent to making payments on a house. But, having kids would mean we would need to get medical insurance, which neither of our jobs supply, and Sarah and I both want her to be able to stay home with the kids until they’re old enough for school, which would mean less income.

Sometimes I wish we had state-provided health care like in Canada… but then I remember that I really don’t. Ok, ok, revised wish: I wish all our local downtown businesses would form some sort of a union so they could provide health benefits at a reasonable rate. If that would work. I don’t know.

Well, back to work I go.

Ah-ha! So this time it’s only been three weeks… and a day. I logged in to WordPress to find there’s a new version (2.6) and that I’ve been neglecting the comment filter (two spam, one GS… yay for Akismet!).

Anyway, life is good. The boss family is out of town for three weeks (next week is the last week without them) so the office has been pretty relaxing. Good stuff, good stuff.

We picked up Super Paper Mario at a pawn shop the other week for $25. Even though I loved Paper Mario Thousand Year Door, for some reason I wasn’t expecting too much from Super Paper Mario, but… it’s great! I realized after playing for a bit that it wasn’t just Paper Mario with the word “Super” on it, but it’s actually, like, the love child of Super Mario and Paper Mario. Yep, good ol’ fashioned side-scrolling platform-jumping shell-kicking Super Mario action, now combined with Paper Mario to make it crazy good!

Yeah, so, Mario 64’s been being neglected. Even though I’ve made a nice bit of progress, it’s just… not so hot. It’ll probably be a while before I finish it.

So anyway, I was looking online for easter eggs or whatever for Mario Sunshine, and I learned about this thing called “Action Replay” that everyone besides me probably already knew about. I kind of want to get it to see some of the weird stuff it can apparently make available in different games, but I fear it would be a purchase too much like SimAnt or SimCopter which I got a few months ago and haven’t really touched since the week I got them. You know, some things just SEEM like a really great idea, but then… aren’t.

The Blahnimation is back! Now all his fans may rejoice once more for his glorious mood swings.

I’m getting the ac in my truck fixed, and it’s gonna cost around $300… just for air. Ah well, if I ever sell it, the buyer will want air. I should probably get it painted, too… and, you know, actually wash it and get it waxed or whatever after that. If only my papa had been alive long enough to teach me how to take care of a car… oh, wait, he was alive. Hmm.

We missed The Middleman Monday. We need to watch that online so we’ll be ready for the next one. It’s a pretty gosh-darn rootin’-tootin’ good show, if I do say so myself.

…and that’s all for now!

Man, I skipped May and June!

Alright, so, here’s the deal: …um, ok, there’s not really a deal. Sorry.

So, Sarah and I got a Wii! Whoo! I mean, whee! Err… wii! Um. I don’t know. So far the only real Wii game we’ve got is Mario Kart Wii, but we’ve also got a bunch of old Nintendo stuff on Virtual Console, like Super Mario Bros 1-3, Super Mario World, and Super Mario 64. I keep telling myself I’m gonna finish Mario 64 before we buy Mario Galaxy. The problem is, I played Mario Sunshine before Mario 64, so the 64 bitness is a downgrade to me, rather than an upgrade from the ol’ flat Nintendo games of yesteryear (and todayear for the portable systems).

Which reminds me, I was on Nintendo’s website the other day, and I saw that you can get Myst for the DS. At first I was like wha? until I realized it’s actually realMYST minus half the name and the pink box. It’s nice to know Myst is still alive somehow.

Tomorrow is the 4th of July Eve, so it’s a Thursday Friday! So Sarah and I are going with Bill, Pixy, Brad and Libby to Olive Garden and to see Hancock. Yay for Italian food and Will Smith!

Today I logged onto MySpace to send a message to a former coworker only to find… she wasn’t on my friends list anymore! So, naturally, I assumed she must have lost her account somehow. Imagine my shock to find that she still had an account… but apparently removed me as a friend! Needless to say I’m still recovering from that one.

Oh, I never got around to mentioning it on here, but, thank you, Paradox, for pointing out the Google badware thing about my blog. I didn’t even realize there was a problem until you mentioned it. And, even though I already thanked you in Cyan Chat, I figured I’d reward you with the fame and fanfare associated with being mentioned in my blog. Ta-da!

Speaking of movies (a few paragraphs ago) Sarah and I saw Indiana Jones, which was pretty good; Prince Caspian, which was ok; Kung Fu Panda, which was tremendous; and Wall-e, which makes me feel happy in a way I don’t quite understand (ooh, creepy!).

Ok, well, I’m out of time to blog right now. Oh, speaking of blog, whaddayathink about the new design? Eh? Eh?