3DS part II

At least Nintendo is making up for it a bit:

If you already own a 3DS, Nintendo hasn't forgotten about you. They are offering 20 free downloadable games from the Nintendo eShop -- 10 from the NES Virtual Console games and 10 Game Boy Advance Virtual Console games -- before they are available to the general public.

Current users who connect to the company's eShop before August 11 will automatically be registered in the Nintendo 3DS Ambassador program, which will allow 3DS owners to get the 20 games for free. Classic games from the NES, including "Super Mario Bros." and "Donkey Kong Jr.," also are slated to become available for the 3DS later this year.

3DS price cut

I shit you not, Nintendo is cutting the 3DS price from $249 to $169 on August 12th. Neat. Granted, I used a gift card to get mine, but $80 is huge.

Mighty Sparrow

I was looking for a live video of Ted Leo's "The Mighty Sparrow" and I found this gem. His mustache rivals Fronte's for awesomeness.

Mornings

It's mornings like this that remind me I only have 32 more years of work left.

Concerts

Last night Jess and I went to see Bon Iver at the Murat. They sounded pretty good, but I don't know too many of their songs so it made it a bit tough to get into. The rest of the crowd seemed to have a grand old time though. Plus, I got home a little after 11 so I'm not a zombie today. Woohoo.

Thursday has the whole family going to see Ted Leo at Earth House. Mr. Leo isn't supposed tobe on stage until 9:15 so it'll be a late night for the boys, but it will also be their first concert. I've heard the venue is hot, so the shirt may be taken off in defiance once again Ted.

The following Friday has us going to the Decemberists at the White River Lawn. They put on a good show the last time they were here and their new album is great so we'll see how they do.

What's going on?

We got back from a pretty swell trip to San Diego where we hit Legoland, the zoo, the beach, and the Midway museum. The high in San Diego when we were there was 72. The temp this morning in Indy was 77. It's going to be 99 here today. Why did we come back?

I'm about halfway through Mockingjay. The Hunger Games trilogy has been really good so far. Great literature? Nope, but they're quick reads and entertaining as hell.

Breaking Bad started up again. If you haven't been watching this show, go back and get the first three seasons. It's one of the best shows on tv, if not the best.

Now it's back to work.

Straining for God

Thanks to the old mentor for sending me this article on my first day of vacation. An athiest taxi driver in Austria won the right to wear a strainer as a hat in his driver's license photo as religious headgear. Hahahaha.

Can't wait

3DS

Oh, I got a Nintendo 3DS. It is insane. I had about $120 worth of trades and then I had a Visa giftcard to take care of the rest. The only game I have is Ocarina of Time, but a lot of other stuff is coming out in the fall. That's right suckers, I'm 33 and still play video games like a kid.

TURNTABLE!

In yet another all caps titled post, the turntable I ordered had to be sent back to the fine folks at amazon.com. I couldn't get the damn needle to stay put. It would just skate across the surface of the record. All the troubleshooting I found online and in the instructions did nothing to help. I will say that returns to amazon are pretty painless.

BEER BOTTLING

Last night was the beer bottling fiasco of 2011. I bought bottles yesterday afternoon. I cleaned said bottles with the sanirinse cycle on the dishwasher. I prepped all of the bottling equipment. I poured the beer into the bottling bucket which had a very questionable screw on spout. Said spout began to leak. In an effort to get the spout tighter, I popped the spout off and lost quite a bit of beer. All over the floor. At 9 at night. With the spout being held on carefully and leaking all the same, we got about 30 bottles instead of 48. You see, the spout popped off another time and leaked throughout. It was pretty messy and at first frustrating, but by the end it was just funny. Now it's only two weeks to see if the beer tastes like death or not.