It says "Watch out for zombies"

Seriously.  It might be all the Left 4 Dead I've been playing, it might be a reaction to reading The Walking Dead, but this is the best news story I've seen all year.

The only past that irks me is at the end, when the anchor is all "Public safety! Whole websites dedicated to this sort of behavior!" It's the internet. What do you expect?

Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in

Michael Corleone had it right. But despite the fresh "new-blog" smell, this isn't about blogging, no, not at all. It's about a gift. 

Some dear friends were kind enough to get us a Wii game for Christmas - a Wii game that, quite honestly, I wasn't planning on picking up. I'd done this game twice before, and felt no need to play the (almost) exact same game a third time. But they bought it, and it arrived, and I put it in, and next thing you know I'm an indentured servant to a greedy raccoon.

Animal Crossing.

This will be the end of me.

In the week since Animal Crossing: City Folk made its way from Amazon to our doorstep, I've logged more than a full-time workday gathering fruit, designing outfits, shaking trees, selling fish, mailing letters, chatting up animals, and paying off my mortgage. All things I did 6 years ago, almost to the day. All things I thought I had moved past.

I was wrong. So help me, I was so wrong. I'm not mining guides to complete my museum or maximize my song requests (yet...), and I haven't even managed an in-game meet-up with our benevolent gifters (also yet...) but this will absorb both myself and the wife for weeks, if not months, to come.

Pertinent linkage:

Working for Nook is a pain

The Terrible Secret of Animal Crossing (NSFW)