For the past couple weeks I've been working a lot... probably been home for dinner 1 out of 5 days during the week... This Friday I finished up a chunk of the work, and so my wife decided to get me a little present... the new Zelda.

I find this shocking for a couple reasons... First, when we were dating she went with my family (without me) on a trip to Ocean Shores (a beach here in Washington) where my dad and our exchange student proceeded to play Zelda 64 for 4 days straight. Apparently the console was never off for the entire vacation.

Second, given that I have been gone so much, I'm suprised that she wouldn't have slashed my tires in celebration of my insane hours being over for a while... instead she gave me something that will suck up even more of my spare time!

Anyway... on the topic of video games...

I have played video games for as long as I can remember. The first console that was in our house was a Fairchild. I have owned an Atari 2600, 8-bit NES, 16-bit Sega Genesis, 16-bit SNES, 64-bit N64, Playstation 2, Dreamcast, XBOX, Gamecube, GameBoy, GameBoy Advance... I used to work at a video game store, so I also played on 3DO, Jaguar, Saturn, 32X Genesis, etc... So, I like video games.

Don't get me wrong - they are a tremendous waste of time. But, man, are they fun!

So, Megan (my wife, for those of you playing along at home) has a philosophy... it goes something like this... "You have played video games on consoles and computers your whole life. You are now a fairly successful software developer. I'm not gonna mess with the equation."

Which means, that even now I am given "permission" to continue to waste my time playing video games, hanging out with the guys, drinking beer, and talking trash like I was still in high school (or maybe a bit younger).

Life is good.