Oh Snap - Literally!

If this blog gets updated a day late one more time, I think I will officially have to change the header from "updates every Wednesday and Saturday" to "updates Wednesdays and Weekends." My excuse this time? Another busy week, followed by an even busier weekend. True story: it's after ten o'clock on Sunday evening, and not only have I not had time to eat dinner, but I still have about two dozen business emails in my inbox that must be dealt with tonight.

But enough whining. The good news is that I have a strategy for dealing with this state of affairs: bubble wrap. In the process of cleaning my room yesterday, I came across a roll of the stuff, and seeing as I won't be shipping any fragile parcels in the foreseeable future, I decided that it should be, ahem, repurposed as a stress-relief device. So far I have popped through at least a few dozen bubbles, and I guarantee that at least twenty more will meet their demise before the night is done.

Incidentally, do you remember those "stress balls" that were all the rage about ten years ago? You know, the ones they sold at every drug store, little stretchy bags filled with sand? Whatever happened to those? Did people suddenly become less stressed? Because if so, I definitely missed that press release.

At any rate, this is just to say that, well, I don't have anything to say (or more accurately, no time to say it). So instead, here is an amusing quote from a video game journalist, in an article entitled Making Sense of Super Mario Bros.  The article itself isn't terribly enlightening (though I will never view Mario's raccoon suit quite the same way), but I thought the closing paragraph was appropriate, given this blog's ongoing fascination with a certain Mr. Pac-Man:

Think that Super Mario Bros. is the only 2D game with hidden meaning? Don't even get me started on Pac-Man's obvious dependency on drugs as a means to confront his personal demons.

Happily I do not share Pac-Man's addiction to power pellets, but at the current rate, I may soon need rehab for my bubble wrap dependency.

PS If this post has left you with an urge to pop some bubbles, but you don't have the necessary materials, never fear: the internet is here to help.