Future victims,

On Saturday, Eve and I went over Jenn & James’s house for an evening of dinner, followed by fun and games. We usually get together for a few rounds of Trivial Pursuit or Cranium, wherein Jenny and I are usually crushed under the steel-toed boots of Eve and James’s superior trivia knowledge.

Well, thanks in part to the modern miracle of video gaming technology, this particular instance of ‘fun and games’ happened to mean belting out Brick House, Play That Funky Music, and Dust in the Wind into a Playstation2 microphone, for points, laughs, and props.

Finally, a level playing field!

Since they’ve had the game for a while, Jenn can sing up a karaoke hurricane, and James can definitely Take Care of Business. Eve and I totally had a blast. We sang until we could hardly talk anymore, whether it was from the singing or the laughing is debatable, but nonetheless, fuckin’ awesome fun was had!

Now, here goes something I thought I’d never be caught dead writing:

Eve and I are karaoke singing fools!

Well after the evening was over and we were home, as I was lying in bed waiting to succumb to the nightmares, I couldn’t get those games out of my head. I woke up with one, single-minded purpose.

Get! That! Game!

Thankfully, they make the same games and stuff for the Xbox, except that instead of Microphones, they have the Xbox live Communicator headsets. So instead of looking like Sonny Bono & Cher singing into vocoder mics from a ’60s Playtone set, we look more like Madonna from the Like a Prayer tour.

So, in one-hundred degree weather, we got on our bikes and peddled to the local Best Buy. The rest of the weekend went like this.

Location: Den, Couch Proper… headsets on.
Song: Endless Love
Fools: Singing

Thanks Jenny, Thanks James- Addiction Achieved.

–Obvious

I am having an away message skirmish with, Porl.

First, his away message read ‘Working hard,’ to which I responded with my away message of ‘Working smart.’ He then changed his away message to ‘Working stupidly.’

I felt my victory was at hand.

An unexpected change of his status to ‘blueberries’ was quickly answered with my status of ‘raspberries.’

Take that, Porl!