Does anyone ever get tracted?

Obviously, I haven't been writing much lately, at least not for my own blog. That's due, at least in part, to the fact that I've had a lot of distractions lately. This blog will reflect that, as it'll just be a compilation of thoughts on some of those distractions.

On Monday, I watched Pirate Radio. On Tuesday, I watched it again. I absolutely fell in love with this movie. It's one of those movies that's so good that Jason had to call somebody afterwards to tell them how good it is. There have only been a few movies that I watched and immediately wanted to own. This is one. I even watched almost an hour of deleted scenes immediately after I finished watching the movie the first time.

I had every intention of writing a full blog about Pirate Radio on Wednesday, but by then, my other major distraction kicked in. Thanks to my aforementioned month-long GameFly subscription, I got Super Mario Galaxy 2 in my RL mailbox. Galaxy 2 has been critically lauded. Supposedly, it's awesome, but it isn't one of my major distractions. I gave it a good run, but I don't really like it. The controls are annoying, and I feel like I'm always waiting for it to snag my interest, but it never does.

But, it did lead to one of my major distractions. Since we had a lot of people in our house this weekend, I tried to get a few interested in the two-player version of Galaxy 2, which is absolute hogwash by the way, but it lead to interest – thanks to Jenny's friend Anna – in the multiplayer version of New Super Mario Bros. Wii, which is super awesome. Well, I never beat this game, so I decided to give another shot (with Jon in tow). Now I'm (re)addicted to that game that I think is way superior to Galaxy 2. I may be in the minority.

There has also been a lot of important sports new lately. Ken Griffey, Jr. decided to retire about 10 minutes after Bryan and I lobbied for his All-Star appearance. I'm hoping he can pull a Magic Johnson and win the All-Star MVP post-retirement. Either way, we're witnessing the end of an historic career.

Then, only a few hours later, this happened. This whole perfect game controversy turned out to be a lot less controversial than it could have been because everybody involved is being pretty grown up about it, so again, it didn't really merit a full blog. The instant replay fallout will be interesting though.

Of course, the NBA Finals also started last night. It might as well be over now, too.

As if that weren't enough. The final rounds of the Scripps National Spelling Bee are on today. This is just amazing television. Watch it.

Question of the Week:

What should be my next distraction?

My take: Writing?