{"id":53,"date":"2003-06-13T09:45:30","date_gmt":"2003-06-13T15:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.brentnorris.net\/blog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2005-08-18T14:01:03","modified_gmt":"2005-08-18T20:01:03","slug":"happy-happy-happy-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/archives\/53","title":{"rendered":"Happy Happy.. Happy Birthday!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No not mine, but Pauline&#8217;s.  Her birthday was yesterday and to celebrate we took the day off and headed to Opry Mills.  Her sister and boyfriend went with us as well.  We had a good time, though there are far too many shops in that mall that don&#8217;t have electronic items in them.  What would anyone need with so many shoes?!!?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we had lunch at Chili&#8217;s and spent about an hour in Jillians.  Jillians is pretty much one of the last decent arcades that I have seen, though they have precious few, normal arcade cabinets.  Almost all the games there are drive something, or shoot something type games.  There is one Starwars Episode I pinball machine there which is pretty cool and of course skee ball, air hockey and its ilk.  While there I took a dance with my new current favorite game (no not dance dance revolution), Police 911.  Awesome!!!!  It is the first game I have played that seriously gave you a workout.  It is a far cry from the old powerpad days of the Nintendo.  This game is extremely bad ass.  Here is a <a href='http:\/\/www.coinopexpress.com\/products\/machines\/shooting_games\/Police_911_II_%28Police_24-7_II%2C_The_Keisatsukan_%3A_Shinjuku_24_Hours_II%29_680.html'>link.<\/a>  Feel free to start a collection to purchase one for me.  Seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway after that we headed to the theater and saw Bruce Almighty.  A pretty good movie, that is extremely funny at the beginning.  Toward the end it sort of becomes more serious and tries to make a point, but it still has its funny moments then as well.<\/p>\n<p>Headed out of the theater and stopped at a Cosmic Putt Putt place and played a round.  I won just beating Beth by one point.  Woohooo!! Yay for me.<\/p>\n<p>Pauline and Beth wanted to get Ice Cream at this shop there.  So we stopped and did that.  It really wasn&#8217;t that great in my opinion and it certainly did cost a bit of money for it.  I think Pauline felt the same way since she mentioned that for they price they were going to have to clean up the table, not us.<\/p>\n<p>Headed back out into the mall for even more shopping.  Man I didn&#8217;t know their could be so many clothing stores!!! \ud83d\ude42  Its cool though, because I know Pauline was having a good time and James isn&#8217;t a bad guy to have to talk to once he gets used to you.<\/p>\n<p>I ended up stopping at an EBStores that was near our exit and finding a copy of MechCommander 2 for $5.  I also sort of tricked the lady at the cash register, unintentionally and got a $30 game for $10.  I think it is something like Command and Conquer, but set a little differently.  It reminded me of a game I saw Dad playing a lot a while ago, so I thought I might pick it up and see if he like it for Father&#8217;s day.  Probably won&#8217;t, but hey for $10 I ain&#8217;t losing much and if he does that would be pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p>Finally got out of the mall at around 8:30 after we had gotten there about 10:30 that morning.  On the way home we somehow got to talking about card games and Pauline and James both stated that they would never play &#8220;Speed&#8221; with Beth ever again.  Speed was a huge game in my middle school and I said I would play her.  So then we started talking about euchre and I starting trying to tell them how to play.  As a result once we got to Paulines house I played a couple rounds of speed with Beth and then we played a hand of eukre.  I headed for home and called it a night after that.  I hope it was a good day for Pauline.  She seemed to act like it was.  I guess I could let her post her comments for herself though when she reads this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No not mine, but Pauline&#8217;s. Her birthday was yesterday and to celebrate we took the day off and headed to Opry Mills. Her sister and boyfriend went with us as well. 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