Unca Tech, can we play a game???

Music to my ears.

Let me elaborate a bit:  My brother bowls in a small league on Fridays, and to get to said league bowling he has to go past the town where I live (Yeah, the joy of the midwest - having to drive 30+ minutes to go do anything fun...).  He had made plans with me to do a bit of a road-trip on Saturday to go pick up a computer he had purchased off eBay (another story I might elaborate on later), and we had planned on taking off around noon to go do that.   And then something came up that made him have to go in to work on Saturday morning.  Nothing major and we could still take off around noon he said, but he needed someone to watch his boy (he's a single parent who has custody).

So he asked me if they could crash at my place on Friday night and I would watch the boy while he went in to work.  No problem, I figured - it's only for a couple hours.

To my benefit, the boy likes video games.  Also to my benefit, the ex didn't take the Gamecube with her, so I still have an outlet for him to play some age-appropriate stuff (he's seven).

He's playing Mario Party right now.  If I get lucky, he'll still be playing it in a couple hours when his dad gets back :)

Yeah, I know - I should be playing it with him or something, but he started up a single-player game while I was making breakfast and didn't want to restart it...

Sidebar in reference to my last post:  When I got back to Gamestop to pick up the Tekken 5 pack, it was gone.  Lord only knows where they shipped it off to or if it's in their stockroom gathering dust.  But in the shelf space where it sat were several copies of "Strawberry Shortcake Dance Dance Revolution".  I shit you not.  I'd like to meet the ad exec that pitched that one as a good idea - I bet that slick bastard could sell ice to eskimoes...