Happy New Year’s folks.<\/p>\n
It’s back to work for me, so that usually means a bit more content up here to while away a minute or two during the day. Things have been nice and quiet since New Year’s, we are reveling in a nice lull in the usual craziness. Nikki and I had a great time on New Year’s Eve at Calabogie Peaks.<\/a> We had lots of laughs with the New Year’s crew up there, I have pictures to prove it which we will see soon on Flickr. I highly recommend the place to anyone, it’s a top-notch place to stay.<\/p>\n Then on New Year’s Day Nikki and I and Jordy finally got to spend some time with a present Jordy got for Christmas: Dance Dance Revolution<\/a>. This is at first glance the most childish game possible; it’s about dancing for pete’s sake. But I’m not ashamed to say that Nikki and I sent Jordy to go get ready for bed and went head to head on this thing, and my scientific conclusion is this: this is not a game about dancing, it’s no different that any other button masher. Nikki and I went toe to toe on this thing to see who was the best. It wasn’t as lopsided a match as it seemed at first; after all Nikki was a dance instructor for years, and I’m rhythmically inept. But, things turned around dramatically once I realized that it wasn’t a game about dancing, and started playing it as such. I started whupping her butt big time and she couldn’t understand why since I wasn’t really dancing at all, but rather I decided that the “pogo style” of DDR was the key to success. It’s hard to explain, you sort of have to see it to understand. Anyway, the end result is I beat her handily, but the unexpected problem the next day was that we were both crippled by calf and leg pain. I mean seriously. It’s really hard to walk. Anyway, so that’s how a video game caused Nikki and I to unexpectedly become so competitive that we danced through the pain…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Happy New Year’s folks. It’s back to work for me, so that usually means a bit more content up here to while away a minute or two during the day. Things have been nice and quiet since New Year’s, we … Continue reading