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I started the day with Kirby's Dream Land for Game Boy. I played it on the big screen via Kirby's Dream Collection for Wii. This is a really good platformer. I really liked swallowing things and then spitting them out. You can swallow enemies to knock out other enemies and you can swallow objects that do special things when you spit them out; for example, a bomb will explode everything in it's path and a microphone will knock out everything in a room. You can even suck air to puff up like a balloon and then fly by flapping your arms. You can swim too, but you can't swallow stuff while submerged. I got into Stage 4: Bubbly Clouds when I stopped. I kept going off the clouds and getting killed. Stupid me. I'll be back to it though. Great game!

Then I bought Wolfenstein 3D on Xbox Live and played through the first episode and most of the second. I played on Bring It On difficulty, which is next to highest. I did fine until episode 2 and then started dying a lot by Nazi's hidding behind doorways and such - a nasty trick that. I moved the difficulty to Don't Hurt Me just to get a little farther and start memorizing the levels. The key to harder difficulty is just knowing which way to go and not using up too much ammo. I got tired of it after a while, but I'll be back - playing this again brought back memories. 

Finally it was the beginning of Mark and I speed running Minecraft. It's kind of a made up speed run since there's no real story-line or progression in the game, but I decided it would be neat to see how long it would take us to get to the Endor Dragon on a new world. We played for four hours and had to stop for the night while we were close to discovering the location of the Stronghold. This is basically stage three of a four stage process: Stage One is finding diamonds to make a diamond pickaxe that can cut Obsidian; Stage Two is constructing the gate to the Netherworld and going there to get Blaze Rods to make Eye's of Endor; Stage Three is using the Eyes of Endor to find the Stronghold; and Stage Four is activating the gateway to the Endor Dragon and defeating it. My initial idea was we could do it in six hours. We've got two left. It's still possible if we find the Stronghold quickly and I think we're close.