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This weekend was a little different. I got up early Saturday morning to go get some groceries. I asked my kids if either of them wanted to go, but only my 13 year-old son wanted to come along. After getting our groceries he said he wanted to look for some Under Armour shirt, so I sent him on his way to find it while I looked for something else. I found mine, but he hadn't shown up after a few minutes. When I went looking for him I found him in some department where they had a demo set up for RockBand 2. I joined in with him playing Bon Jovi's Living on a Prayer. He played the guitar and I played the drums. That's all it took - I was hooked.

We have an old, and tiring, PS2 and a 3 year-old XBox. I recently got a Wii. Since I haven't pumped out the money for a PS3 or XBox 360, I figured it wasn't possible to get Rockband. We went back to the electronics department and sure enough, there's Rockband Special Edition for the Wii - complete with guitar, microphone and drums. It was also on sale ( most likely since Rockband 2 is coming out ).

Suffice it to say that I spent the weekend playing Rockband with the kids. I have found a new obsession . . . seriously. I'd much rather play the drums than play the guitar and anyone in the immediate area would much rather I don't sing. However, I eventually end up in pain after spending so much time playing the drums because I just haven't used the muscles required to press on the bass pedal in so long. Still, it's a lot of fun.

Rockband 2 for the Wii comes out this December - I've already checked.

Have you tried Rockband? What do you like to play? Guitar? Drums? Or do you prefer to sing?

By request of my daughter I'm posting a link to a game I found via Cynical C. If you like pong you'll probably like this as well. Play it here.

Try Monkey Kick-Off. My personal best was 5643 meters. Yeah boyeeeeeeeee!

Now this is a pretty cool mash up. A Flight Simulator blended in with Google Maps. It's called Goggles. Fly your plane over the city. It'll bank to the left and right. It'll dive and climb.

If you're looking for a fun, action-packed game try Toon Crisis.

Ever try tossing a playing card into a hat? It's not as easy as you might think. Luckily you can practice here.

Wanna try your hand at streaking, virtually that is . . .

Go ahead. Give it a try. Test the Internet's psychic ability. After you've played with it for a while, and are totally mystified and stupified, go read this to see how it works.

Can you be the biggest fish? This is a fun game. Kinda addictive too.

I stumbled across this test today. At this website you are offered the opportunity to draw a pig - with your mouse - and the results can tell you about your personality.

Usa Today has a story about some problems occurring outside of Walmart. All I can really say is . . . what a bunch of idiots.

Wired Magazine is running a story about the Electronic Entertainment Expo that will hit Los Angeles in the upcoming week. Although the article doesn't provide a lot of info about the new consoles coming out, it does re-invigorate a discussion I had with my son recently.

The two of us went to a local book/video/music store. He was looking at the Nintendo DS. I had recently seen a PSP and I must admit that I was pretty impressed with it. He would like to have a Nintendo DS. He already has a Game Boy and a Game Boy Color, but of course, he needs a Nintendo DS too. I asked him what he thought of the PSP. I remarked that I thought it was a better machine given the things it can do ( at a considerable cost over the Nintendo DS ). He disagreed. But I think his opinion is a bit biased because many of his friends have a Nintendo DS and if he had one he could join in their games.