The Wii Is Mine!
Finally got mii a wii (ha, mii). We stood in line Sunday morning at Toys R Us for a little over an hour. I thought I was making a big effort to get there an hour early, but apparently some people in line at Circuit City had tents. When I got there, I counted up the number of people in front of me and found that I was the 21st person in line. I started feeling kinda hopeless, though, since I assumed the number of wii units they'd have would be 15 or 20. But, luckily, that number turned out to be 21, and I got the very last console they had in stock. It was a glorious day. Still waiting to buy a 2nd controller, though. Why Nintendo didn't ship an equal (or greater) number of controllers to accompany the consoles is still a mystery.
In any case, I've been having a blast with Wii Sports and Super Monkey Ball (and the NES Legend Of Zelda which I bought on the Shopping Channel last night). The controller is super intuitive, and, in the case of Wii Sports, can actually be quite a workout (you can play most games with a flick of your wrist, but half the fun for me is pretending you're swinging a baseball bat or throwing a bowling ball. Yes, I'm a geek...). I'm looking forward to surfing the internet on my Wii when their Opera browser is released. Watching bizarre YouTube videos from my couch will be an amazing thing.