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Today I worked a regular day at the job. After work I swam 1/2 mile, rode my bike home (only 2 or 3 miles), then ran 3.2 miles. Then I wrote a post on my family blog, uploaded some pics of my freshly pimped cube to flickr, did laundry, made dinner, played Brain Age and a couple rounds of Sudoku. Now I’m tired!

I want to explain the Brain Age/Sudoku action though. This weekend, my friends Aaron and Mong let me tag along to their friend’s BBQ in Hollywood. There was food and beer of course, regular BBQ. Except, nearly everyone at the BBQ is a game developer and the BBQ soon turned into a Tetris Attack tournament on the SNES. I had never played this game before, but games like Tetris are on par with crack for my brain, so I knew it wouldn’t take long before I was hooked. It took about 4 games and I started to get the hang of it.

Tetris Attack rules! And it was a perfect party game. I think video games have a bad rap for making the players anti-social, but I think I would much rather play a Tetris Attack tourney with the homies than try to scream at each other in a smoky bar with music so loud that you can feel the other person spitting on you every time they talk, and the conversation winds up being meaningless. I guess they don’t have smoky bars in California (big plus!) but you get the idea.

The next day, I was craving some similar nerdery, so I got Brain Age and Tetris DS for my little Nintendo DS. Tetris hasn’t gotten much attention from me yet because I was immediately hooked on Brain Age and the Sudoku puzzles found within that game. Yes, I’m late to the Sudoku game, but I think it’s extra fun playing it on the DS. You can click on a cube and it quickly zooms in. Then you can either enter your answer or scribble a couple little possibilities.