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Sitting on a House

The roof was a bit rough to sit on, but access to the Wii made it worth it.  Okay, so I didn't really sit on my in-laws' house or it's roof.  I'm sure you figured that out on your own, though.

Sunday night, we went down to their house so we wouldn't have to drive down there at 6:00am the next morning.  That night I went to Blockbuster and rented Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Rabbids Go Home, two Wii games.  SSBB Was for me, Rabbids for Ashley and her sister.  They played their game first.

Apparently, for this game, there is a Rabbid in your Wii-mote that causes the vibrations and makes random Rabbid noises while you play.  At one point in the game, it shows you a camera view as if you were looking in the back of it, through the nunchuck port and you see the Rabbid standing there.  If you push a button on the Wii-mote, you see it pressed on the screen.  If you shake the Wii-mote, your Rabbid bounces around inside of it on the screen.  This caused several minutes of laughter.  As did the loose lead inside the Wii-mote that you can use to tickle the Rabbid.  Once the girls found that, the poor Rabbid was barely able to stop laughing long enough to catch his breath.

Smash Bros. Brawl is an awesome game.  It's everything I hoped Melee would be (especially when i heard that the Gamecube was supposed to get online capabilities): Multiplayer, lots of characters and stages, good single player campaign and modes and hundreds of trophies and stickers to collect as achievements.  In the week i had the game, I was able to unlock all 37 characters (more if you count the three Pokemon under the Pokemon Trainer and the Shiek/Zelda and Samus/Zero Suit Samus combos), all 41 stages, completed all solo events and unlocked Boss Battles and All-Star modes.  I was even able to complete Classic mode with about 7 characters, one of them on the Intense difficulty and All-Star mode with one.  I collected over 150 trophies, over 300 stickers and over 200 songs.  I wish I owned a Wii and the game so I could unlock everything in it, but I don't and won't be able to until well after I get a good stable job.

Along those lines, Monday was my phone interview that was supposed to happen the week before.  It went pretty well and I'm expecting a call or email soon to set up another phone interview.  The duties I'd have at this job are things that I love doing already so I'm really hoping for this to work out.

The rest of the week was pretty uneventful, so there isn't anything else to really comment on until my in-laws returned from their anniversary vacation.  They told us a little about where they went and what they did, showed some pictures and handed out some gifts.  Ashley got a San Francisco mug that she loves, Caleb got a little toy trolley and I got a bag of chocolate caramel popcorn that only has a couple handful's left in it.

In other news, I'm planning out a review schedule that I will hold myself to.  Every Saturday starting next week, I will post a review.  I have dozens of movies, TV shows, books and games to review so I won't be running out of content anytime soon.  Also, I am somewhat standardizing my own formats for each type of review so you'll get more than a single paragraph as I've done in the past.  Instead, you'll get a bit more about what I liked in each item and why and a breakdown of certain elements of each item.  It is possible that you will find minor spoilers in my reviews, but I will keep the main plot points from being revealed.

Anyway, I'm off to spend time with my wife.  Until next time...

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