David is back home for Christmas after his first semester at NC State. Brought his computer back, too, with a little program he somehow acquired at college–an NES emulator. It came with basically every single Nintendo game ever made, too… This is bad, folks. I wasted about 2 hours earlier tonight playing Super Mario Bros. 3, and a couple of hours on Friday playing Battletoads. All my games are there… Tecmo Bowl, Mega Man 3, RC Pro Am, Zelda, Bubble Bobble, Micro Machines, Contra, Gradius & Life Force, etc etc. It takes me back. I feel like one of those twentysomethings buying the old Atari 2600s to relive their younger days when Mom and Dad wouldn’t let them play until they finished their homework.<\/p>\n
Drove four hours out to the North Carolina coast yesterday, Kitty Hawk, to be precise. The “Celebration of Flight” is taking place until the 17th, when the replica of the Wright Flyer will retrace the original’s flight, 100 years later. It was great fun–like a glorified air show, with aerobatics, exhibits, presentations, and lots of parked airplanes and helicopters for us to gawk at. I came home with a ton of brochures and stickers. David drove with me, and we had a great time together. I told him it felt like I was making up for lost time not spent with him this semester. We ate at Jersey Mike’s, sat in the Coast Guard helicopter together, listened to Tonic in the car, and got pulled over on the way home (I only got a warning, though–there’s something to be said for not incriminating yourself when the trooper comes to your window). Had a grand time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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