Today, then tomorrow, then VACATION. Couldn’t have come at a better time unless it were an entire week early, since biking to and from work with a sinus infection has, and will continue to, SUCK ASS until one or the other thing comes to an end.

I feel like I’ve earned this vacation, even though to the untrained eye, I don’t really do anything at the store. (These untrained eyes belong to managers, who deduce that because there are chairs in our department, we surely must have free time enough to make/print/cut/laminate signage or stock batteries while watching the doors for shoplifters and calling the help desk whenever someone makes a nebulous complaint like ‘the bathroom needs attention.” Are you saying it’s a mess, or it was doing Tom Green impressions while you were trying to take a dump? Because the clean-up crew likes having an idea of what they’re getting into. I could write a fricking book about the retail experience, and I half think I might give it a try. It might even sell well if the entire country is forced to work for Wal-Mart et al.*

I’ve been rediscovering the joy that is Mario&Luigi: Superstar Saga, and I use the word ‘joy’ in a non-sarcastic way for the first time since 20XX. I’d given up on it for a while since the flow of the game utterly croaks about the point where you have to go recover X PIECES OF Y, but after getting annoyed that nobody else seemed to have that problem, since GameFAQs didn’t seem to be addressing where to go next, and actually forked coins over to the in-game Help guy.

I have to wonder why the control scheme from M&L hasn’t shown up elsewhere. It’s kind of cool controlling two characters simultaneously, and I could see it working in a somewhat slower-paced platformer outing (where cycling between the duo actions wouldn’t mean instant death.)

*By making a jab at Wal-Mart as the only named store in my bitchings, I’ve nicely offset referring to my own place of work as a horribly mismanaged cesspit of idiocy.