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Oh, but saying loo would be hilarious! Kind of like when Americans say "fannypack" in the UK, just not quite as vulgar.

Ashley, it wasn't just you that I corrected, lol.

I bought Symphonia way back when I bought my Game Cube, tried it, and hated it. Back on the shelf it went, to commune with the dust bunnies. A couple of years went by and I decided to give it a second chance. Glad I did, it's one of my favorite RPGs.

Like the piper. When I lived in Portlnd, we used to wander out and watch the Paddy's Day parade and poke fun at the plastic paddies. The best was when the pipe and drum corps went by and were playing "Scotland the Brave". Very few people got it when we started wishing everyone a happy St Andrew's Day.

The new Cosmos isn't as good as the one that aired back in 1980, but for a science junkie like me, I still find it to be pretty good. Once you move past the flashy special effects, the science part is really good.

Yeah, I noticed you've been playing ToS. How far are you?

Bah, my March Madness is over and done with. And I stay in on Paddy's Day, too many people using it as an excuse to get drunk and act like asses.

Ashey, it's PaDDy, not Patty. My Great-granda was a Paddy, my great-uncle was a Paddy, and so were a ton more of my family. My aunt is Patty.

Chris, you should check out the Iditarod website sometime. They have a great section that talks about the history of the race and what they were trying to accomplish by starting the race. And I highly recommend Gary Paulsen's book Winterdance.

And we get about that here in Maine, too. I follow on the website and on Facebook, otherwise I'd get no news other than two lines hidden somewhere in the local paper about the winner.

Sigh. If people just started looking at each other as human beings instead of at the color of their skin or their religion, the world would be so much better. Jason's boss, who happens to be African-American, was making life so miserable for another employee that he quit. The issue? He was biracial. I wish more people thought about and acted on MLK's "I have a dream" speech where he talks about people being judged on the content of their character and not on the color of their skin. And I refuse to feel guilt over something that I had nothing to do with. We should learn from past mistakes and use that to make a better world, not wallow in guilt. It just perpetuates the whole "White man's burden" attitude from the previous centuries.

Good job on your goals! I've been stocking my house with fruit instead of candy for my sweet tooth, and trying to eat more veggies and less pasta and processed quick meals. It's hard, because I live by myself (by choice!) and cooking for one isn't a whole lot of fun. It's so much easier to just open a box of mac&cheese than to cook a real dinner.

Good choice on Mini Ninjas. I really liked that game, it's pretty easy, boss battles are fairly simple QTEs, but it was cute. Mini Ninja's name is Sho, by the way.

And on to my pet peeve at this time of year: It's PaDDy with two Ds. Yes, it does make a difference. Patrick is the anglicization of the Irish name Padraig, hence PaDDy. Patty is short for Patricia, or is something you put in a bun. I come from a long line of Patricks, all the way back to the potato famine in ireland when they emigrated to New Brunswick, and they've all been called Paddy.