Today was Thanksgiving here in America. A day when we all say thanks for what we got, and eat turkey.

My mother made a twenty pound turkey. I have never in my entire life seen such a big frickin' turkey. Now think about this.

This turkey was for my family. All five of us. Mom, Dad, Ann, Me, and Grandma. That's my whole family...at least in the area who can eat turkey with us. But get this...Dad's allergic to turkey. He can't eat it. So it was a twenty pound turkey for the four of us. It took eight hours to cook the frickin' thing. And mom made about twenty side dishes...carrots, corn, mashed potatoes, green beans, yams with marshmallows, rolls, stuffing...and others I don't recall. And "V-Ner-Schnit-Zel" for dad....It's veal with lemons all over it.

Right now I'm saying thanks for the fact that Ann is having "everyone she knows" come over to play D&D and eat leftovers tomorrow. Egads...

Now...on to the bragging.

The Legend of Zelda - The Ocarina of Time is the newest n64 game out. It WAS supposed to be out Tuesday. At work there were over 200 pre-sold copies (They pay the money and we hold a copy for them when they come in). So over 200 people were expecting the game Tuesday.

UPS screwed up...they didn't ship them in time. No Zelda on Tuesday. That meant madness...I left quickly after getting my work schedule. Wednesday...Zelda shows, but only the gold copies. You had to preorder the game to get a gold copy. HAD TO.

We had to explain that to TONS of people who are under the impression that they can just walk into any store two days before the biggest shopping day of the year and pick up Nintendo's just released, all-time hottest title. HA HA! Listen up folks...you want the cool game the day it comes out? Better go somewhere and make sure you give them some money before the game comes out.

Mine was reserved in October. I got a gold cartridge. ;)

I got Zelda!! Yaay!!

It starts off kinda lame...you run around and the game does some "you're a ten year old, let me show you how to play" stuff, instead of just putting the basic moves in the book and letting you figure it out. Oh...and name your game with a boy's name...otherwise they call your character stuff like "Kathy, the boy with no fairy" all game. I'm almost ready to restart my whole game with the name Link...

But it does rule, once you get past the educational part. Brian came over at 2am last night and we played it until 5 or so.

It rules. RULES I TELL YOU!!!

I kept telling Bri that I have to beat the game by 5am tonight...y'see I never owned Zelda 1, the original NES version. I rented it from Blockbuster and beat it in one day....

I have skills you've never SEEN!!!

So I would love to keep up that record, but who am I kidding? That was a one time thing...it'll never happen again. I just happened to have no trouble finding things and getting through the game. But this one...ah...I love Zelda. I will have many nights of fun playing this game. Then I'll go back to Final Fantasy VII and try to beat it before they release VIII. ;)

I also got a $26 hand-held scanner. That means more pictures....tomorrow. I'm too exhausted tonight and I have nothing worthy of scanning. And it doesn't roll smoothly enough over body parts to just scan myself, sorry Ray. I could scan my upper thigh but you'd never see anything but a block of pink. None too appealing. It's not a bad scanner considering what I paid for it. Not bad at all. Not nearly as nice as my mother's flatbed scanner, but could I expect that? No...

But I am tired and stuffed. Full of Turkey. I require sleep....and Brian took the N64 with him so I don't get to play any more tonight. He wanted to play Zelda and he rented some wrestling game...WCW vs NWO Revenge...which BLOWS. But I hate wrestling. In general. But Brian did turn off the wrestling game in favor of watching me play Zelda, so it can't possibly be any good to people who tolerate wrestling.

Ah well, I'll debate that in the morning. I have to work tomorrow, so I have to sleep tonight.