Thanksgiving is over and we all have to go back to work on Monday.  Some of us even had to work on Friday.  Lindsey took off a few hours ago.  This weekend we played through all of Earthbound for the SNES.  This game is a classic and a personal favorite.

I was messing around with some video streaming options a few days ago and mistakenly recorded one while streaming.  For no reason at all, here I am playing with my cat.

"Black" Friday got it's name from it's accounting impact from holiday sales.  It is said that if the numbers are "in the red" that they will be back "in the black" after the Friday after Thanksgiving.  It has long been known as one of the busiest shopping days of the year but only in recent history, mostly due to the internet, has it been given such wide attention.

It's cold out and Lindsey made it safely.  We talked about video games and played some Goldeneye just like old times.  Maybe Earthbound tomorrow.  It's 3AM.  Thanksgiving is going to be awesome.  I can tell already.

This awesome.

I have logged almost nine hours of online competitive Goldeneye time.  I'm hovering at level 13 and now am being matched up against people at much higher levels.  I am only a running target for them.  You get weapon and armor upgrades as you get to higher levels but being matched with somebody much higher is really tough.  I have learned to pull the pin on grenades before I think I need them.  By the time somebody kills me, I try to leave a live grenade on my body, hoping to kill them as they look over my far inferior artillery.

I played one game with the currently ranked highest player in the whole game.  I guess I'm not surprised considering he (assuming it's a male…and it probably is) has played over eight DAYS of game time.  I hoped to at least land a bullet on him or something.  No such luck.  It was cool to see him ghosting around.

Can you explain the internet?  I assume it consists of wires, cats, and naked people.  It is a really hard thing to explain.  You can explain how it works but the word itself is a lot more.  Some people asked a bunch of kids to draw the internet.  This is what they drew.

I think that I got my first e mail address when I was about 14 years old.  I'm not sure what it was exactly but it was an @aol.com address.  My family was subscribed to AOL and I was given a super-restricted kid account.  Much of what I couldn't do, I didn't even know about.  With AOL, you were stuck in their little world but at the time, the internet didn't offer too much so it wasn't a big deal.

Fantasia is my favorite Disney movie of all time.  I saw it as a kid and was bored until I saw the dinosaurs.  It kept my attention through the rest of the movie and I have only grown to appreciate it more as I get older.

It has been remastered and being re-released along with Fantasia 2000 on blue ray later this year.  A classic film like this will receive a lot of attention, especially from a big company like Disney, to get it all cleaned up.  I'm really excited to see it.

Erin is in Odessa, TX interviewing for a residency.  Just down the road from her hotel is a miniature Stonehenge.  Here's a little article about it.

I watched Blazing Saddles on Friday and I forgot how much I liked that movie.  It had been such a long time since I last saw it.  Every time I watch a movie I notice something that I never saw before.  I like movies like Blazing Saddles because Mel Brooks' movies have plenty of visual jokes in the background.