Halfway there,,,

    Finally made it to the physical for the respirator fitting this AM after work. I was surprised to have the process take over three hours, including time spent in the waiting room. I was almost out the door once, when they thought it was completed, and the cute nurse ran after me to have me come back in for a Scott pack mask fitting. Not that I'm ever going to wear a Scott pack. Willingly, anyway...  

    Today's meeting with the social worker and the physical therapy folks confirmed that Mom is going to come back home on next Wednesday. Unfortunately, it means that a ramp is going to have to be put on the porch, since she isn't yet strong enough to navigate even the few steps there. 

    Today's featured Modern Warfare 2 vid (and they're getting kinda scarce lately) is Sandy Ravage dominating on High Rise and Estate. The second vid is WatchthisGaming's MW2 Top Five Plays. Moving on...

• Call of Duty: Black Ops preview: WorthPlaying.
• Activision talks Call of Duty subscriptions. For premium content, natch...

• Halo: Reach reviews: Geeks of Doom; Scrawl; Aussie Gamer; The Scribe; Daily Mail; Times-Mail (single player).
• Voting with their controllers: Halo 3 and Modern Warfare 2 in first week played more than Halo: Reach in first week. That might be because there's virtually no difference between Halo 3 and Halo: Reach multiplayer.
• CVG embeds Halo: Reach Top 10 Amazing Kills. (YouTube version above). 
• YouTube vid: MasterChief Easter Egg in Halo: Reach.
• Halo merch (for those with a lot of disposable income: Weta building Halo 'Mongoose' ATV. Put it in the garage right next to your Call of Duty: Black Ops Jeep Wrangler.
• ActionTrip embeds 10 minutes of gameplay video (plus a couple of pic galleries) of Bioshock: Infinite.
• Zero Punctuation punctures Metroid: Other M. 
• Microsoft: New console 'years away'. Meaning: 'We haven't milked the Xbox 360 dry yet.
• Resident Evil actors read lines from Resident Evil 1.

• Hubble photographs 'young hot stars'. No Megan Fox pictures here.
• International Space Station live webcam.
• Student makes history with human powered 'flapping wing' plane.

• US hunters shoot down Google line. Maybe they were aiming for the human-powered 'flapping wing' plane.
• Customer Service Win (Fail.blog) 
• Jesse Eisenberg doesn’t just play [Facebook creator] Zuckerberg in ‘Network’ — he’s a lot like him in real life. 
• Facebook has addressed privacy concerns, Canada finds.
• Blockbuster files for bankruptcy.
• Netflix goes live in Canada - and it's inexpensive, eh.
• Netflix hires actors to pretend they're fans. One would think, knowing that nothing can stay secret for long any more that idiots in charge would not do this...

OK, we are actors, eh.