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Waggle Daggle

darryl — Fri, 11 May 2007 00:34:43 +0000

Margaret and I can now get our waggle on. We bought a Wii. It took over 30 minutes calling all the damned Walmarts, Game Spots, EB Games, Game Havens, and Toys’R'Us’s (<–weird spelling) in Knoxville and none of them had one. So on a hunch I called the Walmart in Oak Ridge and the guy whispered, “We have 5 or 6 Wii’s available.” I jumped up and Margaret and I took off to get it. Three hundred dollars later we had a Wii, Advanced A/V pack, extra waggler, nunchucks, and a fishing game (for me).

This all started from playing my brother in laws Wii and it was addictive. Margaret and I woke up sore Sunday morning just from the boxing we did. After that we were sold.

So if your not into graphics and into playability, I’d give a shout to the Nintendo Wii.

Now all I need is a Microsoft Zune 2.0 (tee hee)

Do you…?

darryl — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 02:11:52 +0000

Yea, we’ve all heard, “Do you Yahoo?”

But let me ask you this, do you Peggle? If not, then you need to hook up with bjorn the unicorn!

You can meet up with the mythical beast by clicking here

Money To Spend and Nothing To Purchase….

darryl — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:54:54 +0000

….At least so we thought.

Margaret wanted to buy something so we went to Target and found nothing. How odd is this, she is in the book isle and there’s nothing there that she wants that has been released? I know I know, Margaret not being able to find a book? Absurd isn’t it? Well, I perused the gaming isle and while I could’ve gotten a couple of Mario games for my DS, but I know me. I would’ve gotten tired of them after 5 minutes. We were restless, bored, and wanted to buy something!!!!!
SO…..

We ended up at Linens-N-Things after I suggested that we get us a special coffee mug. To say that it stopped with coffee mugs would be a lie. We bought us 2 special coffee mugs, 2 big cups that we’ll use for soup (chunky preferably), set of red wine glasses, set of white wine glasses, set of pilsner glasses, set of mugs, and 2 pillows. The brand of glasses we bought were Libbey. It’s funny that we came around to those, because our regular drinking glasses are Libbey brand. The weight, the feel in our paws, and the quality screamed out to us. So we bought them. I suggest them to anyone, not for the quality alone, but the cost (pretty cheep).

Welp, I’m off to make some creamy chicken and mushroom soup for the misses (remember, chunky soup!!)

After the games…

darryl — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 04:53:23 +0000

Well, after a couple hours of wine and Tetris, I’ve notciced a couple of things. The joke factor wears thin real fast. Where normally, it’d be a cute joke between us, I get competitive and Margaret get’s upset. It is pretty funny. One thing is for sure, instead of a sobriety test of walking the line and touching the nose for drunk drivers, what they should do is play Tetris. I noticed after some queso and fish sticks, eye and hand coordination had greatly diminished.

What was next? A really bad Tetris drinking game of course!!! What else would benefit someone impared by the effects of alcohol than a drinking game? So here were the rules: If you can’t rank up or level up within the 2 minute time frame, you take a sip of wine from the bottle. If you did level or rank up, the other person had to drink and if the time ran out within the following 2 minutes, you were able to keep going with no one drinking. I thought I explained these rules, but of course I am writing this and it I thought I said this, so currently I am correct. **big wryly grin**

So now, I’m off to bed. We’re going to watch Hogan’s Heroes on the little portable DVD player in bed. One thing we’ve noticed since we no longer have a TV in the bedroom is that: A. We have more time for each other and B. The portable DVD player is so small it’ll fit in a drawer. So it works out for the two of us.

Night folks.

G’day Mates!

darryl — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 00:17:34 +0000

Happy Monday everybody!!! Well it seems that we’re supposed to get snow today. I don’t think we’re ever gonna get snow here. The reason why I feel that way? Is because no matter where Margaret and I are, it won’t snow. I think that is fate, haha. Anyway, today was pretty good. At the place of business where my wife and I work something funny happened at break with our friends Andrew and Chris. There’s a lady (we’ll call her Samantha) who’s last day was today and everyone congregated into our breakroom. There was cake, laughter, and announcements. Now mind you, we were in their just for our personal break, the cake that showed up was an added bonus to our festivities. So, Andrew told Chris that today was “Samantha’s” birthday, so Chris proceeded to lightly clap and sing happy birthday. After a couple of seconds, Andrew told Chris that today was actually “Samantha’s” firing day. I tell ya, I was cracking up so hard. This story might not be totally accurate, but it’s close enough

The nice thing about the circle of friends my wife and I hang out with is that everyone kind of feeds off of one another. Say for instance if Andrew and Chris were doing something off the cuff, the lot of us would play along cause it’d be funny. I love it. There’s just something about hanging with like minded people that really brightens my mood everyday at break.

Well, that’s about it for today. If you’re wondering about the picture, I’m in my jammies enjoying my glass of wine before the misses and I head off to play Tetris and gab tonight.