[LIVE FROM DELAWARE] We're enjoying New Year's at Chad & Dana's... Mainly passing the party with a ton of games. 8 person Apples to Apples. SSX Tricky. Beach Spikers. NHL 2001. Lord of the Fries. And perennial favorite Trivial Pursuit, where my team's first question was completely incorrect.
It went something like "What's the first video game console, launched in 2001, to feature a built in hard drive and broadband connection?" The answer is, of course, the Xbox, but the card said Nintendo GameCube. As proof, I pointed to the little black box that had so recently finished many 4P games of Virtua Beach Volleyball. No hard drive there, my friends! Someone needs to write the Trivial People a letter. They also had a misleading question about a Navy stealth ship named in 2000 after a PlayStation game. The answer is Street Fighter, which, although there have been many versions of Street Fighter on the PSX, I wouldn't consider it a PlayStation game.
The party group was nice enough tonight to indulge my Animal Crossing commitment, and let me play to see the big New Year's festivities. Although, thanks to all the plugging and unplugging, my Cube's clock is now 15 minutes slow, so we were able to watch the Dick Clark version as well as the AC countdown. Tortimer gave out a stupid party noisemaker that you can't use outside, which completely sucks. I did like the fireworks though. But as soon as we get home, I'm fixing that clock.
OK, the party is officially in wind-down mode. Rhon is already nearly asleep on a borrowed air mattress, listening to Enya through the iPod. I'm joining her. Have a lousy new year, gentle reader.
