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prince_eric is completely, utterly, and totally awesome.

Thanks for an awesome walking tour around the Common and for a great dinner.

prince_eric is completely, utterly, and totally awesome.

Thanks for an awesome walking tour around the Common and for a great dinner.

Today we drove down to Plymouth, only I missed the Plimouth Plantation exit (since I was looking for Plymouth Rock and/or the Mayflower) and we went to Cape Cod. It was very windy and rainy. I don't know why people go there.

Plymouth is like Jamestown. Without the National Park bit (those of you who have been to Jamestown Island and Jamestown Settlement will understand). Except we have more ships at Jamestown. It was windy and rainy there too.

Then we drove back to Boston. It's windy and rainy here too. This seems to be a theme.

We went to Harvard and wandered around the Harvard Natural History Museum and the Harvard Peabody Museum for a while. It was windy and rainy there as well, of course, as that's our theme for the day. The Yale Peabody Museum has always had nice weather when we've gone there. Obviously Yale is superior to Harvard.

The T is...odd. Different train types, different tracks, and different levels. It's like Dr. Frankenstein built a mass transit rail system. And of course, he included wind and rain.

You are FIRED.

I was making great time yesterday until two miles from the GW into NY. Then everything stopped and the rain started. The last four hours of the drive to Boston SUCKED.

We're here, spent the day at the Museum of Science, in which I was blinded, and are now back at the Radisson on Stuart St. just off Boston Common. It's still raining.

You are FIRED.

I was making great time yesterday until two miles from the GW into NY. Then everything stopped and the rain started. The last four hours of the drive to Boston SUCKED.

We're here, spent the day at the Museum of Science, in which I was blinded, and are now back at the Radisson on Stuart St. just off Boston Common. It's still raining.

Dear Lazytubes,

I'm looking for a Virtua Fighter type game for the 360. Something the kiddo and I can play together that'll be fun and isn't split screen. While I don't object to 'rip out spine, light corpse on fire, piss on ashes' levels of violence a la Mortal Kombat, I'd rather avoid that sort of thing if possible. Heck, if there's an actual version of Virtua Fighter out there for the 360, that'd be great, but since it's an ancient franchise that I haven't seen or heard anything about in about a decade now, I don't expect to find it.

Thank you Inter Net Kenobi, you're my only hope!

So, on Saturday, I took my final for second degree black belt. My legs feel like Jello^TM still. And the ache...it just won't stop. If the building were on fire? And I had to descend the ten flights of stairs? And then run to live? You could just go ahead and cross my name off the survivor list, because I'm so not making it out. I injured my big toe on the left pretty early on, and had to deal with that through the rest of the exam, which made for me not doing as well as I could have or would have liked to. I'm missing a chunk of skin from my right pinky finger, and was bleeding pretty badly from it at the end, but...

I passed though, as did the kiddo. So we managed to get second degree together too. It was a good day.

Someone shoot me now.

Please.

So, on Saturday, I took my final for second degree black belt. My legs feel like Jello^TM still. And the ache...it just won't stop. If the building were on fire? And I had to descend the ten flights of stairs? And then run to live? You could just go ahead and cross my name off the survivor list, because I'm so not making it out. I injured my big toe on the left pretty early on, and had to deal with that through the rest of the exam, which made for me not doing as well as I could have or would have liked to. I'm missing a chunk of skin from my right pinky finger, and was bleeding pretty badly from it at the end, but...

I passed though, as did the kiddo. So we managed to get second degree together too. It was a good day.

Someone shoot me now.

Please.

We left the house at 6:22 AM EST. Stopped for gas and breakfast drive through before getting on the Dulles Toll Road at Wielhe Ave. in Reston, VA. Stopped for Gas just west of Bridgeport, CT. Arrived in Orange, CT at ~11:45 AM EST.

Traffic? None.

Weather? Clear the whole way.

Cops? Saw a few on the NJ Turnpike, mostly just south of NYC.

NYC? No delays.

Accidents along the way? None.

I love easy drives. I expect the trip home on Monday will suck royally.

So, the kiddo has been wanting an Xbox360 for a while. He's got quite a chunk of change in birthday money that he's never spent, so we used that to cover part of the cost. I picked up an Elite version for him yesterday. Yeah, it's a bit more expensive than the standard box (and the Arcade wasn't even an option), but it comes with Lego Indiana Jones and Kung Fu Panda along with all the other extras the Elite throws in the box over the standard configuration, so it was worth the extra dollars. The color also matches all our AV gear, which is a nice side benny.

So, I guess maybe I'll have to pick up whatever it is y'all play regularly and join in?

Once I get it networked. Which I haven't figured out how I'm going to do. I'm not about to spend the $100 Microsoft want for what's a $15 USB WiFi adapter under the injection molded plastic. I guess I'll have to run a cable to the second machine upstairs and bring the wireles bridge it's plugged into to the AV gear. That would get the PS2 on the network also. What I need is a four foot relay rack in the basement with a nice rj48 patch panel wired to dual or quad jacks in every room, and a gbit switch that I can cross connect any of them with (and hey, it makes phone lines easy too, since POTS runs over cat6 just as well as it does over cat3, and rj11/12 plugs into rj48 just fine). Of course, trying to retrofit that kind of wiring into the house would be expensive. But I'm pretty sure it'd also be worth it.

This here post be locked me hardys, as my kiddo can't see it that way.