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My friend Mark was in from Chicago over the weekend, and we made good use of the visit by playing more of the Nintendo Wii than I had played in the previous six months combined. I've always enjoyed playing it, but it's true that you get the most fun out of it by playing with a bigger group of people. Ed and Nathan came over to round out the player roster, and while the bowling and golf were fun, I think we got the most entertainment out of making celebrity-inspired Mii characters. Below is a screenshot from one of our later bowling matches, when Jesus barely edged out Satan in a bowling match for the ages. If the match had a soundtrack, it would most definitely have been Carman's The Champion.  Magnum PI didn't even stand a chance. Neither did my shoulder apparently; After we discovered the game mode that requires you to try to hit an increasing number of pins in rapid succession, starting with 10 and culminating in a 91-pin-showdown, we went on a bowling tear that ended up with Mark setting the house record and me pulling a muscle in my right shoulder. I'm only slightly embarrassed to admit that this isn't my first Wii-related injury. All I can do at this point is wait another month for Wii Fit to be released. In completely unrelated news, we've been turning up the heat on Gus' training. A month ago, I would have never thought a this would even be possible, but here I am with photographic evidence that our dog is, in fact, trainable. 
All credit goes to January on this one. We started trying to teach him this when we were on vacation in Gatlinburg a few weeks back, but she's really kept up the training to the point where we're actually getting results. I'm not holding out any hope that he'll ever be a Chuck-caliber performer, but it's good to see progress.
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