I want this blender. Can you imagine just how smooth the smoothies coming out of this thing would be?

When I was a kid, my uncle had left us his NES, with two or three milk crates FULL of games for safe keeping while he traveled with his wife to Germany. Between me and Mom (Dad never wanted to touch the thing), we spent all day playing things like Duck Hunt (Mom’s favorite), Super Mario Bros., and The Adventures of Lolo.

Moving forward, my love of puzzle games grew, as well as light gun shooters to a lesser extent.
Tetris became my gaming crack while I was in middle and high school, and I fell in love with it as well as many offshoots and variants. When I had my own Nintendo 64, Tetrisphere was perhaps one of my absolute all time favorite games.

Then, I got on the Internet, and what I knew about Tetris was blown away by one thing:
Tetrinet.

Imagine a frantic six-way competition, fighting with cascading blocks.
Add in specials that can be targeted at a specific person to give them a disadvantage, or an advantage.

For a while, I was in deep love with Tetrinet.

It was a simple to play, easy to learn online playable game that works well even on Dial-up, which is what I was on a long time ago.

I still love Tetris, and its offspring, but it’s not so competetive there now.

So few people remember my old friend. ;(

No one seems to want to allow a potential employee to give their current job a two week notice before quitting, and will pass over them for someone who can start now Now NOW!!! instead. This is pretty disappointing for me, because this is the first time I’ve ever held employment this long at one place, and I don’t really want to leave like these other children do. I’d like to make a respectable exit on good terms with my employer, if only because I may find myself heading back in their direction some day.

On top of this, my schedule at my current place of employment has a nasty tendency to flip-flop back and forth a *lot*. This makes just getting a second job rather difficult (as I experienced early in October).

I think I’ll spend a couple more days looking, before I consider actually doing something this drastic. I just need to do something. I can’t keep being short on my bills each month, and I can’t keep on borrowing money from friends.

Problem is, I need to wrap up some unfinished business at my current employer, regarding my knee, before I can move on.