Haven’t bought any games yet but did rent Mario Party 8.  I’ll talk to the guys at work w/ Wii’s and see what they have/recommend.  If nothing else, I still have a few GameCube games kicking around.

Only minor problem I have involves the component AV cables I bought.  Turns out they’re a tad bit short and barely (an understatement) are able to reach between the component audio inputs and component video inputs.  I’m not sure what else to do, all of the Wii component cables I saw had the video and audio together. 

Turns out that everything worked out in the end and I’m now (assuming subject to’s come off) the owner of a new townhouse.

I’m not looking forward to moving, but it’ll be nice to have a place of my own.  I’ll only have to deal with lawyers, bankers and real estate agents for another month or two now.
Again, the real winners in all of this… the real estate agents (but followed closely by the bankers and laywers).

The Flash 85% Iron Man 80% Green Lantern 70% Hulk 65% Spider-Man 60% Catwoman 60% Superman 60% Robin 45% Wonder Woman 43% Supergirl 43% Batman 30%

Fast, athletic and flirtatious.

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Venom 75% Dr. Doom 71% Lex Luthor 65% Juggernaut 64% Apocalypse 58% Dark Phoenix 55% Mr. Freeze 54% The Joker 52% Riddler 51% Kingpin 49% Mystique 44% Magneto 44% Catwoman 37% Green Goblin 36% Two-Face 24% Poison Ivy 24%

Strength, disguise and adrenaline are your greatest weapons.

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We’ve been without power at work a few times in the past couple of weeks (not so good for a technology company) and there’s a lot of trees down around town.  My parents have been without power for 3 days now but I guess that’s the price you pay for living in a green area.  Luckily I live in a fairly well-connected (power-wise) part of town that isn’t that prone to power loss even if the rest of the city is.
The good thing about snowy conditions is 4×4′n.  We went out the other day about an hour up Vancouver Island and quickly ran into a lot of snow and downed trees.  Fortunately there was a land cruiser with a winch powerful enough to move things out of the way.  Pretty fun day, definitely a benefit of living on the island.
Who knows how long this is going to last, I suspect it’ll clear up soon and reports are calling for rain throughout the next wee.  No white Christmas or birthday for me.

Finally decided to cash in some credit card points for Futureshop gift certificates and have yet to decide what to buy.

I’ve already got the Plasma TV (and La-z Boy recliner) so I’m covered on that front.  I did buy a Game Cube at it’s launch but never really played it.  It’s because of this that I’m weary of buying yet another console particularly something like a PS3.   Although I am thinking it might be nice to mod an original xbox or perhaps pickup Katamari ‘Garbage Ball’ Damacy for the PS2.

The first snow storm of the year happened yesterday and it was pretty rough by Victoria standards. The city was essentially shutdown today, no buses, no university, and no work for me.

I may live in Canada, but I don’t live in Alberta, Ontario or Quebec. The mild west coast is supposed to be exactly that.. mild. Luckily snow doesn’t tend to stay long around here and hopefully it’ll clear up by tomorrow.

It’s not often that I find out something that’s happening locally from a site like Slashdot. But this article is saying that we’re getting urinals that rise automagically from the ground. Supposed to curb our rampant practice of peeing in public and for a mere pittance of $75,000. What barbarians we are!

Looking forward to it… Last year I made it down to the Mayan Riveria for a couple weeks and given that we’ve entered the rainy season here on the west coast, it’ll be nice to see some sun again.

I’m not even going to take my laptop this time but I couldn’t resist buying another 1gig memory card for the digital camera.

Plus I had my dad do some surgery on my Creative Zen Micro MP3 player and all is well again, I’ll have some tunes for the plane ride down. I still don’t think I’ll ever buy another Creative media product again.