First off, I should say that the music on the Wii is incredibly pleasant. This is important if you have it on for a couple of hours while you are debating which router setting is holding up the show. Seems we assign too few IP addresses. Jack and the kids are off to pick up Grandma, so I’m straightening the house, created a few Mii-folk, and pondering a jaunt at Zelda while I wait.
or maybe Red Steel……I’ll let you know….
So…we are nearly the Wii hour…but not quite yet…
Turns out that before we could do any Wii Sports, we needed to spend a few hours doing the Cable Dance. Jack seems to think that I have held up the show - I apparently have pretty serious ‘cable issues.’ “All this would have been done a while ago, except she has this issue with seeing wires….”
Hmmm….I’m still seeing wires, so I’m not sure about just how dire my ‘cable issues’ are. I certainly don’t want to be tripping over wires, or unable to close the cabinet doors because of them. Apparently a trip to Fry’s will make all this much easier. Fry’s is the purveyor of a very particular magic box (High-def component switchbox). Jack’s TV is somehow lacking - it has a mere 2 imputs. This is the same TV that we waited for patiently and is the only TV worth watching certain football games.
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We finally have Wii!
We nicknamed our Wii, Zakalwe, a mercenary for hire from the Ian Bank’s Culture books. We don’t know how’s we’ll end up using the nickname, but once we do I’ll let you know so you can name yours approrpriately.
Now, we pick up Grandma, and make up our Miis. (What is the plural form of Wii and Mii, anyway?) While we are waiting, you can make your own Mii here.
Again soon!
[The kitten has been sleeping all day on the sofa. She is content, as are we. 
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We just brought home the Wii….wooo! The chronicle:
11/18/2006
9:00pm: Last night we cruised to our local Target, GameStop, Best Buy and Walmart at I35 and Parmer and scoped the scene.
[Sidenote: there was a 4 mth old kitten on our porch that we hadn’t seen in the neighborhood, we left her some food.]
9:30pm: We went home and tried to sleep. [Kitten had eaten all the food and was sleeping on the porch.]
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11/19/2006
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3:00am: Jack left to get in line. Target and Best Buy were full, and he ended up 7th in line.
6:30am: I came by to let him get coffee and a bathroom break. [Kitten is freezing on the porch so we let her come inside. She is immediately comfortable.]
7:30am: The folks at Toys-R-Us handed out tickets and let us head home.
8:04am: With kolaches and coffee, we checked Target just to see how they did and picked up Zelda, Super Monkey Ball and Red Steel (and a $20 Target gift card - w00t)
8:30am: Began to clean and prep the house for the Wii festival to come. [Kitten meets dogs, that seems to go well. Hmmmm….do we have a new cat? Let’s leave her on the porch when we leave.]
10:00am: Purchased our Wii at Toys-R-Us…victory!
We’re at home now, getting set up. [The Kitten was still home and expecting to come inside when we arrived. No one seems concerned that we have both a kitten AND a Wii.]
More Wii news to come. [And if you happen to have a Wii inspired name for a kitten - drop us a comment! ]
My youngest son is 7 is very excited about getting one for Christmas. He can’t wait:
He offers the following review
“The feature gross out ones can take out their brains, can make bats fly out of its head. You can pull out its heart (that’s cracked!) and it peal off its hand so you can see its bones. You can draw on it with three different colors so you can creep out your mom.”
They have them at Amazon - just click on his guts in the image below:
If you kid is playing World of Warcraft, they very likely have a bag of gold. They’ve probably got a character that they’ve invested time and energy into while they play.
And those are real assets….virtual, but real. Right now on ebay, a level 60 character is likely to be selling for just over $300. Now, that’s unlikely to be a very strong hourly rate (if you type /played in the chat window it will tell you just how many hours your character has been played.)
But, that character has real value - and if you wanted to violate your term of service with Blizzard, you could convert that into real cash. The IRS is even starting to pay attention. Might not hurt to do a quick inventory, if your kid has more than one character, and talk about it.
A level 60 character is only achieved through play, and it’s an achievement that has real, quantifiable value.
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Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
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