I’m sitting at my brother’s computer fairly nodding off. I’ve been eating popcorn and drinking hot cocoa, so it’s no wonder: warm food does a great job of making me sleepy. Happy Christmas everyone! I made out with a set of knives, a knife sharpener, an electric can opener, a set of orchid-scented perfume and bath goodies, Cell by Stephen King, and The Sims 2 University. I started reading Cell earlier tonight and I’ve already made it to page 120-something because it’s been hard to put down. It’s all apocalyptic and zombie-filled, so I’ve been creeped out and on edge (Dad knocked over a stack of Atari cartridges earlier and I about jumped out of my skin). I took a break from reading and watched Miracles, a wacky old Christopher Lloyd film, with Mom and Dad so as to get me out of the creepy zombie mindset.

Why were Atari cartridges lying around, you may ask? Yesterday, Dad drug out the old 7800 and all the 2600 and 7800 games from my brother’s closet and we settled in to go through all of them again. Well, we ignored the obviously sucky ones, such as Raquetball and Baseball (honestly!), but had some fun with Pole Position, Frogger, Dark Chambers, and Xevious, to name a few. To add to the old gaming goodness, Dad’s been working on getting the old TI backed up and runnable through an emulator in Linux, so I got to tinker with that today. I played with the old Beach program and Colors and Elephant and several others I had forgotten about. Those are all TI Logo II applications, and there’s one other I remember that involved feeding an apple to a horse or something like that, and Dad says “At the Zoo” is what I’m thinking of.

All right, that’s enough of that! I’m off to read more in Cell and hit the hay. As a side note, I think I’ve had several entries now that have “zombies” in the title.