The Nintendo Wii<\/a> is due to be released in Sweden next Friday, and the excitement in this house has reached fever pitch. Olof pre-ordered one nearly three months ago, and he can hardly contain himself now that the big day is almost here. A few minutes ago he made me watch a ten-minute-long Legend of Zelda<\/em> review, something which proves that he’s lost all perspective. He knows I don’t do video games … why on earth would I be interested in that? (Actually, I think it was just an excuse for him to see it again himself.)<\/p>\n He’s got his eye on two or three games, which will sock it to our budget but good. They’re running 600 SEK, or just under 100 American dollars, a price that’s just this side of madness. Even so, I’m less concerned about how much money he’ll be spending than about how much time. He’s already scheduled the release date as a vacation day, and he’s taking two-and-a-half weeks off starting December 15. I’d bet good money that by the time January 2 rolls around and he goes back to work I’ll be ready to toss the whole kit and caboodle in the nearest trash can.<\/p>\n Yeah, you’re right … I’d never do that. Do you know<\/em> what those things’ll go for on eBay?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Nintendo Wii is due to be released in Sweden next Friday, and the excitement in this house has reached fever pitch. Olof pre-ordered one nearly three months ago, and he can hardly contain himself now that the big day is almost here. A few minutes ago he made me watch a ten-minute-long Legend of… Read More Wii will, Wii will … cost you!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}