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This has been a BaD week for me. Started well enough with a long weekend (had President's Day off on Monday). Chessa and I took the kids out for a fun day at this place TreePaad, which was some bouncey bounces and this big obstacle course thingy with slides and all manner of padded delights. It was a pretty sweet joint and Nicholas had fun in there for 2 hours, while Mikey enjoyed crawling around the toddler area and mingling with some of the other young kids.

It's nearly midnight and I'm tired. Here's my blog for today:

To make a long story short, my older son got his shit wrecked by our treadmill today. Apparently he knows how to turn the thing on, and after doing so today, he fell on it and got caught at the back end of it between it and the wall. He's got some pretty nasty burns from the thing going just a little over 1mph and a few spots where it totally rubbed his skin off and he has an open cut.

Yesterday I finally wrapped up The Last of Us. I've been chronicling my experience in the forums. So those of you who have been following along via those posts surely know that it wasn't my favorite game. It's nothing awful or anything, it just didn't strike me as anything particularly special.

Anybody remember years ago in the '90s when Friday nights used to mean an awesome block of shows? Family Matters, Full House, Step By Step, Boy Meets World, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and some other wacky shows that came and went (anybody remember Dinosaurs?).

Well, funny enough, before I realized that there was a Sonic announcement today, I was planning on writing up a bit about the 3D Classic version for a review. I've been playing it here and there over the past week and it's been quite interesting. Yes, I've played the game many times and know it very well, but it's been quite a while since I've done so and my memories on it aren't quite as fresh as I believed them to be. What's been quite startling is the lack of speed in the very first game and its strong focus on platforming.

Oh boy, today was fun. If you're in the New England area you, like me, were likely snowed in today. We got some serious snow dumped on us and as a result, I spent the day working from home. It actually wasn't too bad, minus the need to clear my damn driveway of snow. Thankfully that's all done now, so barring any great amounts more of snow, I should be out of the woods.

Didn't want to miss a day, so this is going to be quick. Thread is forthcoming, but I coded up a couple new quick features tonight.

Well, today is officially the start of BaD, but this is my second blog of the month, thus the 2 in the title. As also indicated by the title, forums! Didn't get to talk much about how excited I am to have them all done. It's been a long month getting them out the door and I've spent most of my free moments working on them. Still have a few things to incorporate, but I think for a first go, they're in pretty good shape. I hope that despite BaD starting you guys join in on the fun in there.

Alright guys, I think I'm going to get in on this big BaD action. However, I'm going to do something a bit different. Since I just dropped the forums out there, I'm going to be doing a bit of shameless cross-promotion. In addition to a general update of what's going on in my day-to-day, I'm going to create and link to a new forum thread. Hopefully it'll get a few faces into the brand new area of the site, experimenting with something new!