It’s another cold night here in Vegas. Of course, I shouldn’t be complaining about weather in the mid 50s, but most of you guys reading this are in Hawaii, so I think we’re good.

I knew before I left that I wasn’t looking forward to coming back to the cold. And I’m still feeling a little weird. I’m still wearing shorts and a t shirt, just like I have been for the past month. I even walked out to the mailboxes like this yesterday. I’m not sure if I was imagining things, but the puffy-jacket-wearing-lady that I passed and said hello to looked at me like I was on crack.

It’s a cold, quiet night here tonight. Kerri’s already asleep after a long day at work. I’m sitting in the living room, TV off, and thinking I’ll probably just be reading tonight. I was pretty excited a few minutes ago when I saw this link that lets you play Super Mario Brothers:

http://www.nintendo8.com/game/629/super_mario_brothers/

It made me think of this time when I was a kid back at a church dinner. For the kids’ section, they’d set up an NES with this game playing. Remember how it was a two player game, and the second guy would take his turn after the first guy died? Well I was Luigi, and after the kid on controller 1 died (which took maybe 6 minutes), I went on to pass the entire game in one go. Yeah, I used the warp zones and all, but I just didn’t die. About half an hour later, there was an audience watching me pass the game (only half an hour because I used the world 1 and 4 warp zones). I distinctly remember this one guy behind me saying “He’s going to do it. The korean kid” (I’m Chinese).

Yeah dude, I used to rock Super Mario Bros like that. Thinking about it now though, poor kid on first controller only got less than 10 minutes of playtime and had to spend the rest of his turn waiting in vain for me to die.

Fast forward to tonight. I’m trying to play it on my keyboard and I died literally 4 seconds into the game.

You can’t go home again.

There’s a metaphor to life here somewhere. One that even relates to me this very night. I’m just not sure what it is…or if I even want to realize it. So I’ll stop here.