good things heading into the weekend. for one, the comments are back. i like comments. i missed them and it’s good to see them return. especially without any action required on my part.

i also played tennis twice this week, after having not picked up a racquet in at least two years. it felt pretty good. it would feel better if i knew of a nearby place to get my racquet re-gripped, because as is i finish playing and have a lot of sticky black decaying rubber gunk on my right hand. also, i’ve found while trying to google such a place that i often misspell racquet without the ‘c’. how embarrassing.

other than that, i’ve mostly spent my evenings this week playing hotel dusk on the new DS. it showed up monday, even earlier than expected, and i’ve spent over thirty hours playing since then according to the game clock. wow, that’s a lot. but it’s so addicting, and i want so badly to see what happens next, i can’t stop. mainly because it’s more like an interactive detective novel, which has a surprisingly good story for a video game. i’m really hoping this far in it doesn’t have a terrible and cheesy conclusion that makes me regret all the hours i’ve logged so far. i guess if nothing else, it’s been a great distraction from having to wait around for dr. xbox to fix my 360. according to the ups site, it’s still on the way to texas, so it’s gonna be a while.

and to further chronicle my nerdy week, i finished season two of battlestar galactica and let me just say that i was not pleased with how that ended. i won’t go into spoiler-filled details, but come on writers. i think you could have done better.

oh! and i need a new payday song, i think i forgot last time. i’m sure if i’d been to the record store recently, it would be something off the new arcade fire album, but tonight should be the night for that. instead we’ll go with the current favorite record of 07, a little peter bjorn and john. enjoy a little trip to amsterdam and whistle along with me.