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My old public High School (I mean that loosely because I only went there Freshman year and then went to a private school) has this ritual of painting their sports equipment shack every year with a different theme. This year it was video games and so I thought I'd take some pictures of it and share them here. 

As I keep adding estimated completion times to my games, I keep adding to my current playlist of shortest games to play. Two I added, and then played right away this week, were Dark Void Zero and Attack of the Friday Monsters! A Tokyo Tale. I downloaded both of them onto my 3DS for $5 and $8 respectively.

If you were keeping up with the Joneses you might have listened to 50 Cent's Get Rich of Die Trying, played Madden NFL 2004 on PS2, read Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code, and saw Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. I only did one of those things, the last one. I'll tell you what was tops on my lists though. 

Today started out like yesterday with a bagel from Einstein Bros. Bagels. Now I'm thinking I have to get totally clear of bagels. Too many calories and too much money spent. 

Started the day with a lovely egg bagel sandwich and coffee from Einstein Bros. Bagels.

I'll answer myself. I was basically where I am now, mostly nowhere, but I did enjoy the odd piece of media entertainment. So let's take a look at that. 

Sunday was spent with family. I watched my neice and nephew both playing Minecraft on various devices. My neice was building a haunted house for Halloween. My bro-in-law and I watched the football games: Eagles/Cowboys - dreck, New England/Seatle [cor. Green Bay/Seatle] - great game. I think I put in about five minutes into Etrian Odyssey Untold 2 when I got home. I'm just not finding the time for it yet. 

The future had finally arrived: Internet was booming, even I bought a computer, cars were flying, and we had rocket shoes and teleporters. Replicators had replaced the need for making products resulting in a complete restructuring of society. No one had to work (except for those guys, like Homer Simpson, who had to watch for nuclear plant malfunctions. Boy, that probably sucked). We all just laughed and played all day long. But you could work in the game's industry if you wanted to entertain folks; creative work was still available, if you had the itch - totally voluntary though. And everthing was run by two computers, an IBM and an Apple. They were at war with each other though, but we watched their robot wars on the TV. So fun!

Played a bunch of stuff this weekend.

Yes it's year 2000 this week in my little game of revisiting the years. So what happened? Armageddon of course. Y2K fears became a reality and civilization as we know it collapsed. Mayhem ensued and only a few survived in special bunkers created by various governments of the world. Luckily, I was able to use my prodigious survival skills to discover the location of one and get in. Now I write these blogs across the sole remaining network that links to the other bunkers, but you all know that part.