I've been playing videogames for a good long while now. I think it's almost about time to call it quits and focus on other priorities. The last game I'll probably be playing will be Mario Kart Wii. Afterwards, I'll probably get rid of all my gaming equipment and start focusing on other stuff. It has been a fun run while it lasted.

So the unthinkable happened today and the batteries for my launch-day
Wii have ran out. It was a good run and I feel a little sad tossing
those spiffy Panasonic LR6AA Industrial Alkaline batteries away into my
recycle bin. At just under 2 months, I'd say they lasted quite a while.
Ah well... I just stuck in a couple of Kirkland Signature AAs and I'm
good to go again.

I got fed up with having to use my neighbors' wireless signals everytime I wanted to play my DS games online so I lowered the encryption on my Netgear router from WPA to WEP.

Of course something would go horribly wrong when I did. Something went awry and my router stopped working. Switching it back to WPA got it up and running again just fine. Granted that it's still covered under warranty, I wasn't in the mood for talking to a tech support rep in India for the next hour  or so only to have him/her to tell me that there's something wrong with it and that I have to mail it somewhere and be without it for the next 1-2 months.

So, with my router being useless to me at that point, I decided to shop for another router. As luck would have it, CompUSA had a nice Belkin wireless router on sale for $10 after MIR. I went out and bought it, brought it home and set it up. It's been about a week now and the router has been working perfectly without any problems whatsoever. I'm able to share files between my NAS and systems just fine and I can play games online just fine on my DS. That and now I'm sure that I'll be adequately prepared for the Wii.

Now I just have to work up the patience to call tech support for my old router.