This weekend seemed really short.  I would have really liked to have a 3-day weekend for President’s Day, but unfortunately I do not.  Despite its seemingly short length, the weekend was a lot of fun.  I hung out with Eric and Mike on Friday, my girlfriend on Saturday (of course, it was Valentine’s day), and got a lot of shopping and work done on Sunday.  So, good times were had overall.  I will wrap this post up with a bit about tanks and TV.

Tanks—On Friday night and Saturday morning, I fed my new addiction to Tanks on Wii.  My fellow combatant—the Hoff—helped me out on Friday, and I flew solo the next day.  The game is actually a lot tougher with two people because you only have 1 chance per board, wheareas in the single player version you actually get 3 lives.  Both times, I got stuck on level 10(?) where your enemies have bouncing rockets.  I get really intimidated by those things.  Tanks is really a great game.  I need to introduce it to the Wrangler.  It is like a classic flash game on Wii.  Although, I think that if he played it once, we would not see him for 3 months.

TV—Last night, I finally got to catch up on some TV watching.  The two shows I watched of note last night were Lost and Fringe.  Eric provides his thoughts on his This Place is Depth wrapup, so I am not going to go into too much depth.  What I did find interesting is that Jack’s father was in a casket during the first crash on the island and he now represents Jacob, and it appears that Locke will be brought back to the island the second time around in a casket.  I wonder if he will assume the roll of Jacob in future episodes.  Overall, the show continues to get more-and-more interesting.  On a similar note, Fringe continues to get better-and-better.  The last episode tied Walter to the technology manifesto which seems to be the background for all of the events.  I had a feeling that he would prove to be pivotal in explaining all these events.  But, it looks like now he did not start the events through his experiments, but rather,  he observed what was happening and possibly tried to stop it through his experiments.  Overall, I found the underlying story of the manifesto (the idea that there are two dimensions pitted against each other for survival) quite interesting.  Fringe is slowly turning into a great show.

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