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It is true, that for as much as I tried to downplay my not being one of those unkempt, crazy-ass geekers who have been standing in line for four days to get one of these, I did have a looped dialogue running in the back of my head constructing elaborate plans for getting my hands on one. It was important to me that those around me were clear that I wasn't going to have any kind of psychotic break over it. I did have to casually mention to Jeff that I would be staying up until 3am this morning to be one of the first on the Amazon site when the product launched at 12am PST 11/19, and he thought that was just about as crazy as one could get. He hasn't been watching the news about the boys in that four day line or the muggings of ripe teen geeks to pluck fresh PS3's from their hot, hairy palms as they walk out of Target so I'm not convinced he has a good grasp on how crazy crazy can be.

I thought the staying up until 3am was a viable, reasonable compromise on my part. It wouldn't inconvenience Jeff like making him stand in line with me at some God-forsaken Wal-Mart for hours with other undesirables or worse yet, flummoxed parents of psychotic children who simply MUST have the console for their holiday this year. Scary. So yes, I did stay up and by 3:30am when Amazon still had not released their stock, I said "fuck it" and went to bed because I'm just not that crazy.

This morning after I woke up, Amazon still hadn't released their stock and the internet was having a meltdown over it. For some reason, someone has posted a comment on the Amazon blog that Toys-R-Us actually had bundles of consoles and games available. I calmly found the product bundle, ordered it, waited for the "out of stock" message which never came and by the end of it, I had a confirmation of the order for next day shipping. Of course, the Amazon commenter line about Toys-R-Us then posted about the fine print regarding their absolution from unavailable stock, blah, blah, blah and as a life-long believer in "Oh sure, it would have to happen to me", I figured I'd been dupped into ordering the really expensive bundle that I still wouldn't get even though everything I'd received from the company told me it was in stock. Still, there was no blood coming out of my ears from a melting brain. I'd hit that Zen ambivalence about it and already had moved on.

And yet, I checked my order again this afternoon and it had moved from "processing" to "order located and shipping in process". So waddayaknow? I'm totally getting a Wii, possibly before Thanksgiving. Woot to the geek boy not so deep inside.

UPDATE: OMG...TRU canceled my order. WTF? Now I'm going to be that crazy person I was trying to suppress.

I'm getting a lot of questions about what I'm going to do with my MBA once I graduate at the end of the month. Several people seem to think I'll be moving in on my boss's job which, by the way, is the WORST job in the world and I wouldn't want it. Talk about playing mother hen to a bunch of whiners. Yikes. No Thanks.

Of course there are ample opportunities to apply my new degree to make the world a better place and I think I've finally settled on what to do:

Kick ass at Star Wars: Empire at War.

Seriously. I think my degree is tailor-made to trump the shit out of this game.