The Mother of All Updates: A Soliloquy in Five Parts (1 of 5)

So the rest of Christmas came and went, as it's wont to do at the end of the year. The D and I went home the first week of January, as we are wont to do at the beginning of the year. After a great deal of hunting, I found a copy of Guitar Hero II for my nephew. Being the good uncle I am, I had to make sure it worked, so I busted it open on New Year's Eve and played around with it. I'd heard a number of people say that it bore pretty much no resemblance whatsoever to actually playing the guitar, and to those people I say, "Good call, yeah." That said, it was fun enough that I searched around for another copy to take to the New Year's Eve party we were bound for that evening. I couldn't find one, and I was glad in retrospect, because the PlayStation 2 never holds my attention very long, but I had a good time with it for a day or so. I think he was actually a little confused by it. I had considered getting him a real guitar, but I wasn't sure if he had any interest in learning it. I took the opportunity to ask him, and he said he'd been saving money, so I bought him an Epiphone Les Paul. One of these days, I'm going to ship it to him, too.

My niece got an MP3 player that I carefully loaded up with awesome and small-human-friendly music, like the Phenomenauts (who she now loves), the Changelings (who I think she found a little disconcerting), and the Misfits (just kidding). She was dancing all about the house and singing, something she apparently does pretty frequently whether there's music or not. Ah, youth.

I had no idea what I was getting - actually, that's not true at all, I was pretty sure what I was getting, and was completely wrong. My parents got me a delicious digital SLR, a Nikon D50. I will close with a few of the resulting pictures for your visual enrichment.









Currently listening to: "Twilight Zone", Golden Earring