I'm off to cold cold COLD Michigan for the holiday. Except for the inevitable snow I shall encounter in Pennsylvania, looks to be pretty fun. I should probably call people, but then what's the fun in all that advanced planning?

Oh, and hot tip, the Toys R Us store in Times Square has a couple of thousand Wii units for sale. They only let a few hundred be sold a day, promptly at 10am. You need to get in line and get a red ticket from the guys outside to buy one. You can pick one up off the shelf, and you can wait in the cashier line, but without that red ticket you aren't taking diddly home. It's very organized and relatively calm. I'd get one myself, but I can't think of anybody that I know that would really want one.