January 01, 2008 at 01:27 PM
Only two more aught years until we enter the future.
The Ball Family had Christmas II over the weekend (mainly Saturday) which was remarkable because all five of us siblings were all at home at once with all of our respective significant others and children (that’s fourteen people!). This literally hasn’t happened in years and it was awesome. We all played a lot of Rock Band, which turns out is the best party game ever made. It allows four people to play simutaneously: one on drums, one playing guitar, one on bass, and one singing and playing tamborine or cowbell. During C2 Rock Band was pretty much running all the time and everyone got in on the action. What’s even better is that we all got our own copies of the game, so we’ll all be able to play over XBox Live!
Here’s a few things I’ve recently learned:
- Rock Band is the best party game
- The ScanGaugeII automotive computer actually works and works well. We’ve already used it to get the code from a ‘check engine’ light in the Jetta (P0678). Combined with a handy TDI club listing of all Volkswagen engine and transmission error codes we now know the problem is that one of the glow plug circuits is open.
- a Breville Juice Fountain makes tasty juice
- Super Mario Galaxy is practically tied with Portal for Most Mindbending Game
- Metroid Prime 3 defines a new control scheme for first person shooters that can’t be beat
- Timbuk2 makes an awesome backpack
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November 26, 2007 at 10:30 PM
It was a great Thanksgiving! A mountain of tasty food, perfect OBX weather, and fun time with family.
Did I mention the perfect weather? We had really nice warm sunny days and then a cold front came blowing through the house (literally, it slammed doors) on Thanksgiving night leaving the days crisp and cool with a strong breeze blowing in off the bay.
Andrew, Jenn, Lewis, Sarah, and I (and briefly Jess) relaxed, played videogames, card games, caught a repeat of the final game (UNC vs. FSU) of the women’s ACC tournament, and played with Mom and Dad’s two new kittens.
The women’s soccer game was good, especially since we already knew the outcome (a UNC win of course). We just had a loss in the 3rd round of the NCAA tournament on Saturday. They played a decent game, we played a bad game, and the calls were not exactly accurate. Our team will be amazing next year.
The kittens were extremely cute, as curious and playful as can be. Since they were sequestered away in Lewis’ room to keep dander as isolated from Sarah as possible we would see tiny paws darting out from under the door trying to get some attention. Aww.
The videogame sessions were great. Some Assassin’s Creed and Guitar Hero III on the XBox 360, plus some old school action with The Lost Vikings and Super Bomberman on an old Super Nintendo. They both held up quite well. Well enough that when I got home I browsed around the Wii virtual console and found Super Mario Bros III and Castlevania II, although Assassin’s Creed continues to hold my rapt attention. I bring death to those that deserve it, but something connects these men that perish by my blade….
Baby update soon, Sarah and I get to see it again at the ultrasound tomorrow.
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