Hesitancy

Some personal business to start: I got about a hundred e-mails today concerning a Minnesota trip this weekend (about a hundred), and my answer is still maybe. My brother is playing in the Metrodome on Sunday night, so if my dad decides to go up, it could create the perfect transportation storm. Or the perfect baseball barnstorm. In any case, I'm still going to Mexico next week, and I don't like to travel to two places starting with the same letter in the same week (explaining my abject fear of the Iowa-Illinois border), so we'll see.


Some intrapersonal business to continue: I really need to get this lump checked out.

And finally, some interpersonal business to serve the majority: I thought of something new in the shower today that I feel should be shared with you all. No, it's not a new food/bathing combination (try Hostess snacks, though, always employing the back-to-stream method). It's this: I bet that at least 10 people on the worldwide AIM system, at any moment you check, have up the away message "Shower Power." Right?

I have a feeling many people use this message for its rhyming affectations, but I also feel classic gaming plays a significant part. Who doesn't know about Mario and his flower power? Maybe your grandma, but she was never into fads anyway. Remember when she totally missed out on that flapper phase? What a Jane! (Insult explanation: "Plain Jane.")

Speaking of video games, I've become newly obsessed courtesy of G4TV. Some of you are probably saying, "Uhhh Harry, you were a video game tester not six months ago, remember?" Point accepted, naysayers, but I wasn't exactly obsessed with the games I tested. For one, I played the same games every day, unlike now when I play Civilization IV every day, but with a different starting nation (today I'm Malinese!) And for two, I rocked those games hard. That second point doesn't really factor into this argument; however, I wanted to remind everyone how good I am at X-Men Legends II. That means I'm cool, right?

Anyway, G4 is incredible for a couple of reasons, and I'm not even going to mention the hot female hosts (Yes! Sly "non-mention" achieved!) One reason is their surprisingly witty scripting. Their writers must all be failed Hollywood types like me (Yes! Sly self-acclamation achieved!) who realize they can do whatever they want on channel 149. For example, the first day I watched Attack of the Show, host Kevin Perreira used the following tease: "Don't change the channel. When we return, I'm going to kill someone live on set. I'm gonna shoot them with a gun!" I didn't stay for the whole show, so this might have actually happened, but I assume the remarks were just great absurdist humor.

Reason Two I like G4: I like video games.

Reason Three I like G4: I might see an interview with XBox figurehead Bill Gates, and he might discuss how close I am on my aforementioned AIM hypothesis.

Reason Four I like G4: Yes! Sly lead-up to numerical symmetry achieved!

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Ha!

I don't see ASS here, but LEE is kinda funny.