What a crazy past few weeks.  My full-time job has monopoloized both my days and nights for the past two weeks, and my health, sanity, and comics have suffered because of it.  The good news is that all of this site's information was spared the devastation.  The bad news is that almost all of my information for You Are In A Dark Room was wiped.  Thankfully part of what I do is forensic data restoration, so although things have been delayed there, they'll be back on track soon.

     Now...Who wants to see the dancing monkeeeeey!

     In between bouts of work insanity and awful summer colds, I managed to squeeze in some time in the evenings with the Wii.  Wii Sports, to be precise.  Sure I have a decent selection of titles, but Wii Sports is definitely the game that keeps dragging me back in.  I just can't get enough of the bowling.  It's so God damned addicting that I've really only ever played against my own best score (228, thankyouverymuch).  Of course, my wife still manages to kick my ass every other game.

     What I find absolutely hilarious is the Wii Sports Fitness Mode.  Today's comic is a true testament of what it feels like to be utterly owned by a kids game.  In all fairness, I blame the boxing component of the game.  I can play all the other sports with no problems, but I'll be damned if I can get the controllers to do what I want when it comes to boxing. I spend more time punching the damned coach than I do his training gloves.  Personally, I feel he deserves it, for throwing those tennis balls at me in the other training rounds.  The bastard.

     In television news, the summer has found me to be a total TiVo whore.  In addition to my usual Adult Swim cartoon recordings, I have added a newfound awesomeness to the list: Ninja Warrior.  Think American Gladiators mixed with pure Japanese awesome.  At it's simplest, it's an obstacle course show with some great twists.  I heartily endorse it.

     In other TV news, one week til the WSOP Final Table.  I can't say as I'm too happy with the final table coverage being turned into a PPV event, but I understand ESPN wants to cash in where they can.  I haven't quite decided whether I will pay the $20 for it or not yet.  Live poker can be very exciting for some, and very long and boring for others.  I may just wait for the highlights.

     And in closing, there is actually one program I've removed from the TiVo.  Hell's Kitchen.  I'm done.  I've tried now for three seasons to go with the show but now I feel that it's the production folks killing it, not Gordon Ramsey's piggish manners.  Sure, fine, Gordon is a dick to everyone.  That's TV ratings.  But to see the same formulaic reward and punishment week after week?  That's just poor editing and the sign of a show clinging to the scraps of potential it once had.  I'll stick with Top Chef for my reality food snobbery.