Nerds-R-Us...

Makoto and Sydney are about to have a baby boy. Two months away! So the baby shower was yesterday at Syd’s parents’ house. While the women were playing games and giggling over baby toys, Makoto, Jack, and I were hanging out at Starbucks chewing the fat. It had been a long time since the three of us were together: Two years!

While we were drinking our coffees and reminiscing about the old days, there was one thing at the back of our minds: Mario Kart. The Nintendo 64 version, of course. You see, in the old days, the three of us (and Marc, who now lives in France) used to get together every Friday night and have massive Mario Kart marathons. But now we’re all grown up and living in different cities, so three hour Mario Kart marathons are virtually impossible.

That is until the baby shower.

So we were all set. Almost. I brought my N64 console but none of us had the Mario Kart cartridge. Well, college education wasn’t wasted on us—we went to Blockbuster Video to rent one. Boy were we surprised to discover that they no longer rented out N64 games. So there we were, three 30 somethings, standing in the middle of a Blockbuster looking as though an elephant had just pissed on our parade.

There would be no Mario Kart Marathon.

That’s when Jack reminded us that his wife, Natalie, was three months pregnant and that they would have the baby shower in January. And then Makoto suggested that we plan it out better to make sure we have the game and the console ready. Then Jack said they might even have two baby showers—one in Fresno and one in Morro Bay.

Yes! Two guaranteed Mario Kart Marathons coming right up!

Now all I have to do is find a wife, get her pregnant, and boy oh boy fun times ahead!