ACCOUNTANT BY DAY

We just sold our Nintendo Wii to our friend’s sister, who needed it for her husband’s birthday.  The system is actually terrific and fun, but our living room is set up incredibly awkwardly with really no room to move around, so we aren’t able to play with it the way we thought anyhow.  So we basically said, okay, sounds good and if we ever get this living room rearranged decently we can get another sometime.

Which meant my husband had to erase our personal data off it tonight.  And on the Nintendo Wii there are these little people avatar things you create called “Miis” (ha, ha!  get it?  my god Nintendo, you just kill me!) and we went through to get rid of those guys, too.  And the whole thing felt rather heartless, all things considered.  When you pick them up they struggle fiercely until you throw them in a trash can to erase them.  “We’re killing them!” I did not say.  But I felt so mournful about the first one that instead of erasing the others my husband simple put them into the “Mii Parade” and set them on an eternal sprint around and around the screen.  Still.  Better than sending them off to a murky electronic oblivion.