I should have never told Justine about the Nintendo DS game, Nintendogs. I told her about it a few weeks back, and since then have been getting sly “so when are you getting a DS?” type remarks.

Well, we now have a “limited edition” (cough) blue Nintendo DS with the “Labrador and Friends” version of Nintendogs (there’s three versions; all have the exact same content except that you start off with certain breeds available). Justine was the first to play it, and bought a small white toy poodle which she’s called “Lucky”. By Sunday, we had enough to buy another dog (we wanted one each) so I got a shiba uni. I couldn’t think of a good name so I looked over at our DVD rack. After deciding not to call him “Indiana”, “Austin”, “Fight Club” or “Munchausen”, I decided on “Monty” when my eyes fell on my Holy Grail DVD.

“Monty” has so far won first prize in the Expert Class while “Lucky” has third prize in the Master Class (one above Expert). “Monty” also wears a hat.

The second of the lenses I ordered a few weeks back was sitting at my desk when I arrived this morning, so I intend to give it a bit of a whirl tonight. It’s a lot smaller than I expected, and extremely light.