I have the feeling I’m living in “The Twilight Zone”. Every evening this week, I have come home to find Pete playing “Halo” on Xbox Live. The past few nights, I have wanted to shoot people. Rather than take my frustrations out on actual people, I’d rather line up my sights on some video game baddies. But, alas, I find myself exploring music on “Youtube”.

My nephew, Craig, has offered to let me borrow one of (yes, that is one of) his Xbox 360 consoles. His only stipulation, I have to go to visit him, and go to Islands of Adventure. He’s been itching to wander around the new Harry Potter area. Oh darn. I guess if I must endure, I will make the effort. We did get a sneak peak when we were last there a few months ago. It looked stunning from the outside! You see, Pete read all the books. I have no interest in reading the books, but I have enjoyed the movies. He tells a great story of when he was up late reading “The Goblet of Fire” one night. There was an abandoned house down the road from us, when we lived in Lakeland. I hated that eyesore. Homeless people would occasionally make camp inside its awful walls. When he got to the part of “He who should not be named” coming to life, he noticed a glow outside. The crap shack was going up in flames! Pete woke me to tell, because he knew how happy that would make me! That’s love! Thankfully, nobody was injured and the volunteer fire department contained the blaze. But, honestly, I was so happy to see it burn to the ground. To this day, it is just an empty lot.

Hopefully, I will be able to take some stress out on some baddies tomorrow after dinner! “COD: Modern Warfare 2” is a wonderful thing, after a long day at work! Pete, hand over the controller, and nobody will get hurt. Well, except for the baddies in the video game. They won’t see me coming!