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My first handheld was my SP. I bought it when I had to go away for three weeks for a law enforcement class. I was jonesing for a gaming fix, and the SP had just come out. I later found an old Sega Game Gear at Goodwill for $10 with a case and four games. I got myself a DS Lite when I got a year-round job at the previous park that I worked at. That ended disasterously, but at least I still have my oh-so-pretty crimson and black DS Lite. Actually, I have all my old consoles and handhelds. A benefit of not having really gotten into gaming until I was out on my own, I guess.

I'm putting off walking the dog right now because my stomach is making extremely suspicious noises.

I used to pull crazy stupid all-nighters on papers and projects that I'd had all semester to get done Hopefully your prof won't dock you too bad.

Oh, but saying loo would be hilarious! Kind of like when Americans say "fannypack" in the UK, just not quite as vulgar.

Ashley, it wasn't just you that I corrected, lol.

I bought Symphonia way back when I bought my Game Cube, tried it, and hated it. Back on the shelf it went, to commune with the dust bunnies. A couple of years went by and I decided to give it a second chance. Glad I did, it's one of my favorite RPGs.

Like the piper. When I lived in Portlnd, we used to wander out and watch the Paddy's Day parade and poke fun at the plastic paddies. The best was when the pipe and drum corps went by and were playing "Scotland the Brave". Very few people got it when we started wishing everyone a happy St Andrew's Day.

The new Cosmos isn't as good as the one that aired back in 1980, but for a science junkie like me, I still find it to be pretty good. Once you move past the flashy special effects, the science part is really good.

Yeah, I noticed you've been playing ToS. How far are you?

Bah, my March Madness is over and done with. And I stay in on Paddy's Day, too many people using it as an excuse to get drunk and act like asses.

Ashey, it's PaDDy, not Patty. My Great-granda was a Paddy, my great-uncle was a Paddy, and so were a ton more of my family. My aunt is Patty.

Chris, you should check out the Iditarod website sometime. They have a great section that talks about the history of the race and what they were trying to accomplish by starting the race. And I highly recommend Gary Paulsen's book Winterdance.

And we get about that here in Maine, too. I follow on the website and on Facebook, otherwise I'd get no news other than two lines hidden somewhere in the local paper about the winner.

Sigh. If people just started looking at each other as human beings instead of at the color of their skin or their religion, the world would be so much better. Jason's boss, who happens to be African-American, was making life so miserable for another employee that he quit. The issue? He was biracial. I wish more people thought about and acted on MLK's "I have a dream" speech where he talks about people being judged on the content of their character and not on the color of their skin. And I refuse to feel guilt over something that I had nothing to do with. We should learn from past mistakes and use that to make a better world, not wallow in guilt. It just perpetuates the whole "White man's burden" attitude from the previous centuries.