mistercellaneous

“remember wondering, ‘why doesn’t doc’s fat butt ever get off that bike?’”

thursday after work, i ran to circuit city…again, to get a wireless router, wii points, virtual console controller, and memory card. i could not hold off the impulse any longer to try and get the virtual console aspect of the wii up and running. i wanted those old school games. after doing a little research about wireless routers and which ones have shown to be compatible with the wii, i bought the cheapest one possible. netgear offered a model for forty beans which was compatible with the wii so i jumped at it. other routers were much more expensive, and seeing how i’d only want to connect my wii and occasionally my work laptop to it, i didn’t see the point in making a more serious investment. upon payment at circuit city, i was fishing around in my pockets and discovered that my car keys were not among the contents. i walk out to my car and surely enough, my keys were still dangling from the ignition with doors locked. at least i had my cell phone. so rather than dialing aaa, i called my mom and asked her to run out and drop off my spare. she was thrilled at the opportunity.
i got home, ate and immediately got after the router business. it installed in about 20 minutes, as advertised, and the wii picked up the signal with no problem at all. done right? umm, no, not so fast. i was really pleased at this point, with everything running and working so smoothly. last step, perfrom wii system update. here enlies the problem. everytime i try to perform this last step, about ten seconds into the process, i get a wii error 32004 message. now i’m getting depressed. i blindly try to fiddle around with some settings on the router but to absolutely no avail. i spent a good three hours of my thursday night pacing from my bedroom across the hall to the office and back, but without making any progress. tired and quite pissed, i went to bed.
i go to work on friday simply wanting for five o’ clock to come so i can go home and tinker with my wii some more (hehe). i remember reading some posts about disabling the firewalls on the router or on your pc and how that worked for some people who had been receiving ol’ 32004. so in my down time on friday, i do some research on how to disable my router firewall and the firewall on windows xp. i finally leave work on friday knowing that this is probably my last option before this error makes me completely lose my mind. i get home, take off the spi firewall on the router and try the wii system update. i get a different error code. i try to remain calm. i disable the windows xp firewall and try to update again. a miracle happens. the bar that had previously only filled less than an eighth of the way before giving me said error message, kept filling. i sat and watched in half disbelief and half nervous anticipation. is it working, or is it just taking its time in disappointing me again? my step-dad yells upstairs and wants me to help carry something up from the basement and into the garage for a neighborhood yard-sale. i can’t possibly take my eyes off the screen. he says it will take a second. i run downstairs and help. run back upstairs and the update has been performed. i won. i beat you wii error 32004. you join a long list of video games which i have beaten since being just a young buck and you were definitely the least enjoyable, but nonetheless, you fell like so many others. i was sitting on my couch with a huge grin on my face. the kind of grin you get when you really put your mind to something and you finally achieve it. if you were wondering…i downloaded the following: punchout, tecmo bowl, gunstar shooters (little known sega genesis game), street fighter II, streets of rage, castlevania IV, contra III and i think that might be it. also of note, if you just purchased or plan to purchase a wii, you don’t need a memory card (sd card). i have all these downloaded games, wii sports, super paper mario, the internet channel, and the everybody votes channel with about 1500 blocks worth of memory left. i waxed glass joe, von kaiser, and piston honda on punchout and then met some friends to go see a movie. i wanted to see hot fuzz, because like my brother, i thoroughly enjoyed “shaun of the dead.” but a friend of mine, wanted to see “disturbia,” or as my other friend cleverly called in perturbia, upon watching it. i thought this movie flat out sucked. if you are over 18 years of age, don’t waste your time like i chose to. every turn and plot twist of this movie can be predicted from miles away, not to mention the sheer lack of realistic details in certain scenes (a cop in a house break-in scene who doesn’t radio for back-up, an underground cave-like system that shia lebouf’s character stumbles upon in his neighbor’s garage, and a pile of others that will go unspoiled and unnamed just in case you won’t take my word that this movie chunked. the first 15 to 30 minutes were interesting, with the last hour and a half aimlessly trying to make it all come together. my opinion, if you want a couple moments of interest followed by a headache and lowered intelligence, go watch some paint dry. besides, it takes a lot less than two hours. save “disturbia” for bored teenagers.