Strange strangers

I check my stats occasionally to see if there's anyone out there aside from people I know reading this blog. Turns out, Google sends lots of people my way! Almost all the search terms are quite funny (and puzzling! Sometimes I never figure out how they landed here based on their search words.). Here are the most recent:

• senior warm-ups and cooldowns
  
• john greier
  
• honeydew melon sore throat
  
• steven tyler restroom
  
• something that's fun
  
• gyu-kaku comments
  
• aruba nintendo wii
  
• someone crashed into my car and drove off
  
• indigenous nudity television
  
• the dreaded needle
  
• kombai tribe
  
• strapon tonight
  
• lezbo tv
  
• mutual peeing
  
• mu shoo pork
  
• internet fame
  
• to know when my car is towed

My favorite is "mutual peeing"! WTF?

An open letter to the video game industry

Dear Nintendo and Playstation Bigwigs:

You owe us. You owe us big time! N and I have had two very successful video game gatherings that have resulted in the following purchases by our guests immediately after having experienced video game magic in our home:

• 2 Nintendo Wii systems
  
• 1 Guitar Hero game and controller (actually, I think we were instrumental—no pun intended—in an earlier Guitar Hero purchase as well, so let’s change that to 2 Guitar Hero games and controllers)

These are just preliminary numbers. I’d like to also take credit for any future Wii video game purchases made by those Wii system buyers (you can’t own a game system without buying games for it). I estimate the early totals come to approximately $650 (including additional Wiimotes and nunchucks) for Nintendo purchases and $140 for Playstation. Nintendo can also expect future income of $50 for each purchase of Wario Ware Smooth Moves, which I’m sure our latest party elevated to “must-have” status.

All this being said, I think it’s reasonable to ask for some sort of acknowledgement for creating consumers out of previously indifferent citizens. I don’t need money (though I’d take it!), but perhaps you could toss some freebies our way. Maybe some copies of new games before they’re released? We'll expose our friends to them and bump up your sales when the games are released. Perhaps a couple free Wiimotes, so we can get our doubles tennis on? Free Virtual Nintendo downloads? A poster for our game room wall?

If you don’t like those ideas, I’d also be willing to accept a few bucks to help pay for the chicken wings and booze.

In any case, I’m not saying you should pay us to have fun. We love your products and have purchased them willingly. What I’m saying is, we got people who hadn’t even given a second thought to gaming to buy the Wii. And isn’t that what a great salesperson does? Encourage our gift of sales with a reward. Please?

Oh, and hey, Sony, if you’re listening? We might also have sold a 50-inch TV for you. Just thought you’d like to know.

There's probably something on TV that's more interesting than this

I'm discovering that I’m a pretty bad blogger. I probably should’ve written about my trip to Aruba within the last four weeks that I’ve been home, but obviously I didn’t get around to that. Aruba is gorgeous, and blue, and windy (did you guys know about the wind? It’s nonstop, literally.). If I lived closer and it took any less than the 16 hours total it took to get back home (that’s three plane changes, people!), I’d go again in a heartbeat.

Okay, that’s done with!

Meanwhile, back at home, N and I have been spending a ridiculous amount of time on the crappy couch with all our new toys. That HDTV is about the best thing we’ve ever done as a couple (and it’s educational, too! Ask us anything about wildebeests and the Kombai tribe! Speaking of the Kombai, one of my favorite parts of this show is the "indigenous nudity." Not the nudity itself, but the disclaimer that warns us that we will be seeing some.).

And, just when we thought the TV would be entertainment enough, we hooked the Wii up to it. My lord, that’s fun! There’s nothing like having a virtual version of yourself kick a virtual version of your boyfriend’s ass at tennis (to be fair, that only happened once...which is probably why I say there’s nothing like it)!

Then! Just when we thought THAT would be the ultimate in fun, I bought N an Xbox 360 for his birthday. And I know you’re gonna think I’m high when I say this, but I’m addicted to a game about tending a garden so piñatas will move into it. So you’ll excuse me if I’ve been away from the computer for awhile. You’d think the wi-fi we set up to allow the Wii to receive automatic updates would make it easier and more fun to blog, but no, 50 inches of TV is way more interesting.