We are the musicmakers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

Today was what you'd call a boring day. Woke up around 10:30 to the smell of Rob toking up...goodie. Did some lazing and whatnot, a little gaming, hanging out with Rob. All the kids were at school, so it was relatively quiet here. Rob went to work, and I went downstairs to play some FF4, then it was upstairs for a couple hours of SSBM with Jim, Heather, and Lisa--it was fun: after winning several matches in a row, it was decided that all three of them come after me, and it took several matches, but they got me once. That would be it for them. I must say, Jim's SSBM skill has improved since I last played with him during the winter break. My own sis almost beat me once. Then--I plunged them to the world of Wario Ware, and all the hilarity. They love it, now that they mostly have a grasp on how to play the minigames. This took us to around 9 PM, when I went down in the basement and chatted with Sarah on the phone, and Rob came home and doped himself. He is quite funny when stoned, but not when he's blowing smoke at me. Even so, I may try it once before summer's end, just to see what the big deal is. Hell, I tried alcohol. Anyway, I chat with Sarah now before heading to bed.

The snozzberries taste like snozzberries.

Nighty night, all.

"What is that blue aura?" I ask. "That's just revival fluid or something," Rob answers.

"Then why can't you use it on your character?" I argue, trying to get a silly response out of the stoned brother. "If it's revival fluid, as you say, then why can't you revive your character?"

"Because he has no revival fluid," he answers.

Thank you, Rob. Always providing comedy when stoned, reserving me the right to laugh at his expense. April finds him amusing as well. This excerpt of Brian's life brought to you by the game "The Suffering," for PS2 and Xbox, for that's what was going on. Now back to Brian's regularly scheduled life, already in progress.

Woke up at 8 today, since I wanted to get my drug test (a condition for employment at Wal-Mart) out of the way. We get to Tobey Hospital in Wareham, and I give them some urine, hoping they won't find increased estrogen levels or Yellow 5 or some rogue culture that hasn't been discovered yet. After getting back, since it was a rainy day and Rob was at work, played Silent Hill 2. Now...that game is getting weirder by the minute, as I lose the plot more and more the further I delve into the nightmare that has become Silent Hill. After some fun, I shifted gears to FF4, pressing forward in my quest to finish another FF game. Several hours later, Rob came back, we were graced by the grandparents, and I had dinner. After dinner, I did some Monopoly with Jim and ended up losing tonight. Not as long as last night's game, it was still fun. Jim finally got to hear P.D.Q. Bach's "Art of the Ground Round," catalog number Schickele $1.19/lb. Gaming over, I talked on the phone with my love for almost an hour when someone else needed the phone and I gave it up. I've spent the last couple hours on the laptop here, and I finished my Final Note and have begun distributing it. Other than that, that's all the news here for now. Now I go to sleep, so...

Nighty night, all.