Tonight, a good friend came over for dinner and some evening entertainment. Casey was flying solo today, almost in more that one way. He was supposed to catch a flight to Idaho this morning, but was turned away at the gate for arriving too close to the time of departure. It really wasn’t was his fault, security at ORF is horrible and the parking situation needs a major revamp. His travel plans were not for fun, he’s actually going to be late to his grandmother-in-law’s funeral. I know he wanted to be there to support his wife, who flew out there yesterday.

After some great Lavish bread chips made by Esther, we all started playing Wii. It was incredibly fun! We paused half way through a bowling game to have some excellent home-enhanced pizza, and shortly after decided we are starting the Wii Sports League. When our friends get back from Idaho, we should have our controllers and I have already looked up double elimination brackets, so we are set to wii our hearts out. Honestly the more people playing, the more fun it is.

Do you have any Wii game suggestions? Preferably multi-player…?

Esther recently bought some political magnetic poetry and today when I got home from work, I put my best coffee house poet forward. Here are some of the things that I came up with.

The ballot is stronger than the world of the Internet.

Get out of the great state between a mother and child.

I discourage the influence of this modern world in your country by the military, the industrial complex and a giant sucking sound that depends on an axis of evil.

Delay ought to be fear

By passing an idea, you can not stop poverty.

Facts can do for NAFTA what the Soviet Union did for that country.

The importance of your definintion of “other priorities,” four years ago, is the only thing I’ve looked at with lust.

I know that I haven’t been doing Haiku Tuesday, so I thought this might make up a little bit.

OMG! This weekend was most excellent.

Esther and I started and completed the 65 mile Tour de Cure, which turned out to be more like the 70 mile Tour de Cure. After we rocked the road, we called our friends and ended spending the evening at Busch Gardens. I really wanted to get a Turkey Legs, but Esther kept guilting me out of it.

This week starts Meatfest 2007. You are probably wondering “What is this great new commemorative week?”

Well, in preparation for the Benoit clan going vegetarian, we are on a tear to finish consuming the meat that we have in the freezer. For the next 8 days, it’s all meat all the time, although we had a vegetarian chili for dinner tonight. Hmm.

Wii-tarded. Finally getting back to the title of the post. This morning, I was checking out the normal feeds and Gizmodo was reporting a massive influx of Wii’s today. I said to Esther “Goodness gracious. We should see if we could get one.” We got ready for the day and drove over to Circuit City. After standing in line for 30 minutes, we swiped the the credit card and walked out proud owners of a fresh Wii. So now, Esther and I are Wii-tarded. We spent a good portion of the afternoon playing Wii Sports and let me tell you: if you haven’t played with one, it is awesome! I am very happy with our investment. Now a certain boxing match is call me, so please excuse me.

I hate April 1st every year. Not that there is something horrible that happens every year, at least not to me. I hate April 1st every year because of the rash of fake news that crops up on the web. Call me a fuddie-duddie, but I rely on the blogs and sites that I read to keep me informed about the latest news.

In the past couple of years, following Google’s lead, many blogs and websites have started posting April Fools news. I understand Google, their claims are so outlandish that they could never be true. Other sites, like Think Geek have done fantastic products, obviously not real:

What would happen if “reliable” sources, like CNN or the Wall Street Journal, decided that they had license to run an April Fools edition. “Market tanks, massive sell off”, great joke, although it would probably ruin our economy. I’m glad they have the sense to not try and be cute.

Maybe, I’m alone in this sentiment, but I hate April 1st.

So based on yesterday’s weigh-in, I’m now up to 36% of my weight loss goal! I’m really pumped now

Also, if you’ve been watching the site closely, you will have noticed a yellow fade-out in the top bar. I have been continually updating my tumblelog (RSS), and the above is the link. A tumblelog is

… is a variation of a blog, that favors short-form, mixed-media posts over the longer editorial posts frequently associated with blogging. Common post formats found on tumblelogs include links, photos, quotes, dialogues, and video. Unlike blogs, this format is frequently used to share the author’s creations, discoveries, or experiences without providing a commentary.
via - Wikipedia

Here is a better definition of a tumblelog as proffered by Leo Laporte on Net@Nite:

Twitter is what you are doing right now, a Tumblelog is a low threshold blog, you post what you find and a blog is something you work on writing and crafting. There are three levels of web engagement

I can’t agree more. In case you don’t know, I do have a twitter account. You can check me out at http://twitter.com/jeredb (RSS), add me as a friend to keep up to date on what I’m doing.