Mr. W’s splurge of the month was the Nintendo Wii game system. When you buy the Wii package at Costco, it costs the same as anywhere else, but the package is much bigger. I think it has something like 3-4 games, controller bumpers, 2 standard controllers and 2 nunchucks. We spent a significant portion of the weekend shooting zombies in House of the Dead 2 and 3, and Mr. W got up early and played Super Mario Galaxy while I was asleep. Today, while I was in bartending class, he “boxed” with his neighbor.

Tangent: Speaking of bartending class, we got to play with water in class today, and turns out my free-pour is pretty damn accurate. My 3-count yields a full jigger, as we found by free-pouring into a glass and then pouring the glass into a jigger for measurement. The low IQ of some of the classmates dropped my jaw a few times, and my gym trainee (who’s taking the class with me) was shocked that I was shocked. She pointed out that people aspiring to be bartenders, especially those who are in their mid-20s, unemployed, and living at home with no clue what they want to do with their lives, don’t tend to be the sharpest tools in the shed. Yeah okay, but still. How could you get lost cutting a lime in half, and not know how to tip a bottle to pour into a glass, and think you’re supposed to empty a full tall glass of water onto a serving mat? Where did you think the water was going to go? Do you SEE a hose attached to the mat? And why do you think you’re leaning over a SINK? Anyways…

Back to the Wii: Because the Wii connects to the internet and seems to imply that you can make your personal Wii characters (called a Mii) mingle and interact with other people’s characters, we figured it’d be fun to connect to Mike (wilco) and Christi (flip flop girl) all the way in Northern California and have our Miis hang out. I called them on Saturday night to ask how we link up. Turns out it’s totally complicated for us cuz we have to exchange Wii system codes, add each others’ systems as “friends”, and allow our Miis to roam globally. Mr. W and I couldn’t even find the screen to get our code information. Mike said it was a 16-digit number that could be found by looking into some envelopes on the screen or something. It wasn’t until way after we’d hung up that we stumbled into the right screen with the right envelopes. So now we can add Wii friends and mingle around the globe! I know Jordan had said that she wanted to get a Wii so she could go Wii bowling with us from Florida.

So who wants to be our Wii friends?