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Another weekend, another bunch of boring night shifts. Halfway through another sleepy weekend of work, the idea of never working another night shift has become very appealing to me. Last night wasn’t too busy, but it was rough because I hadn’t worked a night since the end of April. It’s hard to get used to it again, but fortunately, Sarah was working, thus providing company to keep me awake. We ended up having nachos and cake (not a great idea in the middle of the night) and going to Perks for creamsicle smoothies. So awesome.

The exciting news for the past few days basically consists of me getting a copy of New Super Mario Bros., which is easily the coolest video game I’ve seen in years. Being one of those sorts of people who dislikes most newish games and mostly plays old school games from the 80s, I really love the retro charm of this game. It’s a classic side-scrolling Mario game that sort of remixes elements of the old NES games with some cool new features. The actual gameplay is very much like the first Super Mario Bros. — no capes or flowers to fly, just fire flowers and a power-up that turns you into a Koopa. At the end of the levels, you jump onto a flagpole. However, there’s a map screen with warps, like Super Mario Bros. 3, and ghost houses, like Super Mario World. It’s really pretty cool. It makes nerds like me happy.

Anyway, I’m going to a work barbecue thing that Janet has at work. Also going are Katie & David and Pugs, and although this isn’t the first barbecue of the year for me, it’s the first one that’s happening in almost-summer, so that’s exciting. On that note, I should jet, because I still have to shower and everything.