Nintendo Wii

This is my page for keeping track of my Nintendo Wii video games. We purchased the Nintendo Wii on Sunday, August 12, 2007.

Games that we have on the Nintendo Wii:

And for the Wii’s WiiWare platform:

  • Strong Bad Episode 1
  • Tales of Monkey Island: Episode 1
  • Tetris Attack

And for the Wii emulation platforms:

  • Dr. Mario
  • Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
  • Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
  • Secret of Mana
  • Kid Icarus

August 16, 2007: Exhausted

Oreo and I slept in until after seven thirty this morning. Oreo has really missed me over this past week and was very snuggly all night. This morning he was sleeping beside me with his head on my stomach. He did decide to get up and leave, though, once Dominica made him his breakfast.

I got situated at the computer and sat down to work just before eight. That is when I realized that my access card for the office stopped working and that there was nothing that I could do remotely. It took a little while before I found out if anyone was familiar with the issue but no one was so I started getting ready to head in to the office so that I could pursue getting my access fixed.

If Dominica doesn’t manage to get Oreo to daycare it really impact my day. His daycare is in the opposite direction of the way that I have to go so I had to drive way up to Wallington to drop him off before being able to head for the office which meant that I drove right back past the apartment. The car was also low on gas so I had to fill up before coming in to. So much time was wasted doing all this that I decided I should kill off lunch as well so I swung into McDonald’s on the McCarter Highway and ate lunch in the car on the drive into the office.

It was around eleven when I actually got to the office. I was feeling pretty tired today but perked up a bit after getting some much needed caffeine into my system.

I went home at five thirty and actually had a pretty busy evening.  One of my machines has a bad network interface card and I had to deal with that as it has been causing me all kinds of headaches recently.

Dominica put on the first season of The Fall Guy and we watched a few episodes of that while I worked.  Dominica also played just a little bit of Zelda on the Wii so that we could see it.  It looked okay but nothing special – for a PlayStation 2 from several years ago.  For a modern console the thing is downright embarassing.  I can’t believe Nintendo let that thing get out the door.  I did some research on the Wii online tonight and so far we own every single game that I could even imagine being any fun on the Wii plus one that Dominica likes that I can’t imagine ever wanting to play – Trauma Center Second Opinion.

The one thing that was really impressive about the Wii is that all I had to do was tell it to turn on its wireless, select the access point that I wanted to use and put in the passphrase for it and instantly we were online and a few minutes later we were updated to the latest firmware.  Surfing the web is very easy but the resolution of the Wii is so low that it isn’t nearly as useful as it should be.  We also discovered that the Wii needs another cable to make it even approach looking any good so we have to go buy that now too – and of course it is a special Wii cable and nothing normal.  Dominica did set up some channels like the weather and news and that was kind of interesting.  But overall I think that the Wii is completely unimpressive.  But I haven’t had a chance to actually play it yet either.

We ordered in dinner from Nino’s and made the mistake of getting the white pizza because it was AWESOME and we both ate way too much of it.  That pizza is really amazing and we will be getting it quite often now, I am sure.

I was able to finally get to bed around eleven.

Weight Lost So Far: 32 lbs

August 15, 2007: Returning to Normal Life

I got paged at four in the morning.  Nothing major (barely anything even minor) but it got me up for an hour after having gone to bed just after three.  So when I got out of bed at nine in the morning it was not exactly qualifying as an extremely restful night.

This morning was very quiet and I just hung out in the room at the hotel and worked from my laptop for several hours.  I wasn’t hungry so I didn’t even leave for food.

We went out of lunch around two and were on our way to the Mississauga airport (Pearson, I believe it is called) a little after three.  It ended up being just barely not enough time for all of us to have managed to have made our flight except that since we were flying into Newark the flight was delayed so in reality there was more than enough time and we were stuck waiting for about an hour before boarding.

The flight was bumpy but fine.  We got into Newark not too late – just after eight in the evening.  I hopped the AirTrain to NJ Transit and took the NE Corridor line into Newark’s Penn Station.  That trip was way too expensive and I will figure something else out for next time, I think.

It was around nine when I got back home to 1180.  Oreo was very excited to see me.  I was pretty tired but couldn’t get to sleep until after eleven.  I am planning on working from home tomorrow so that I have a chance to get caught up on some sleep.

Dominica played the Wii a little after I got home so that I could see it.  So far it looks pretty unimpressive to me.  Nothing that I have seen on it seems interesting.

August 14, 2007: Mississauga

Today is the crazy busy day with an unbelievable amount of work to do for an “out of town” day.  I only got three hours of sleep last night because getting up just after six this morning.

It was a good eleven hour day at the office today.  But at least the weather in Toronto is amazing.  New Jersey has been really hot recently but Ontario’s north shore is cool and breezy.  What a nice break.

August 13, 2007: Toronto

Today is my hard-core travel day. I got to sleep around two this morning or maybe a little later. Oreo was very excited to see me when I stumbled in in the middle of the night. He couldn’t contain himself. He was very snuggly once I was able to actually get to bed.

I had to be up at just before six this morning so my totally sleep time was around three hours. I got up and showered and ran out the door to catch my cab going to Newark – Liberty International Airport. I am beginning to feel like I live there. I have spent much more time in the airport than I have at home over the last several days.

I got to the airport just a little after seven. I got my bag checked (I always have to check at least one bag these days because I have to carry on my CPAP and laptop bags) and I got myself through security and met up with some of the guys from the office waiting for the plane. We had all arrived in plenty of time so that we could sit and wait for the plane for about two hours. Better safe than sorry.

The plane for Toronto actually left on time which must qualify as a miracle at Newark airport.  I am sure that they are considering erecting a shrine there now to the patron saint of commuters and traveling salesmen.

We got into Mississauga, Ontario around mid-day and spent the day doing logistical things needed for working in the Toronto area like getting checked into the hotel and finding our way around.  We are up here through Wednesday.