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WOW that last post brought me down! Combine that with Molly having a nice little Summertime Cold, and it being a dark-n-stormy day out there, time to make a list of stuff I'm going to do today that will bring me out of my depression!

1) GO TO COSTCO. Taking Molly to Costco and getting some ice cream will help, I'm sure of it!

2) LIST STUFF ON EBAY. Always improves my mood if I see folks bidding on stuff I want to get rid of!

3) SOFTMOD A WII. There's something satisfying about making obsolete electronics do stuff they weren't intended to do!

4) GO TO THE STORAGE UNIT. Getting to go through a bunch of the stuff I've collected over the years and deciding what's going to convention next is always a blast!

5) PLAY A NEW BOARD GAME. I have DOZENS of games in the game closet that we've never played, smply because I found it at a thrift store and went "Well heck for two bucks how can I not buy this?"

6) MAKE A FANCIER-THAN-USUAL DINNER. I have a nice roasting chicken almost completely thawed in the fridge, I can make mashed taters, gravy, stuffing, fancy peas... always a pleaser :)

7) MAKE A CROCKPOT OF CHILI. Yeah, that always feel good too! SUCH ACCOMPLISH! MANY BEAN! WOW!

8) BUILD A FORT WITH MOLLY. It' a grey day, she's feeling sick... today just might be the perfect day for converting the living room in to a giant fort!

9) ORGANIZE SOME COMICS. The feeling of bagging, boarding, alphabetizing and reading comics is just devine!

10) GO TO GOODWILL OUTLET. Retail therapy, the last resort!

Date: 2014-06-27 06:21 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] aurora77
Ooh, I have a Wii gathering dust. Tell me, what cool things can I do with it?

Date: 2014-06-27 11:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] captain-slinky.livejournal.com
Softmodding a Wii, you can turn it in to a wireless media platform (install Xbmc) and it has some excellent emulators for NES, SNES and Sega Genesis. Also pretty good for accessing all the channels that are still trying to stream through Winamp (mostly public domain. But best of all, it allows you to play any and all Wii games via digital back-up (on an external USB hard drive) instead of having to use disks! The files for pretty much every stinkin' game ever made are available as torrents these days, I think we have about 80 games on our Wii right now...

My new Softmodding will be for the in-laws back in Ohio, show them what us big-city Seattle folk can do with computers ;)

Instructions are really easy, just Google "soft mod my wii" and choose your link!

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