Spent the weekend, among other things, rolling the ball with an old friend. Years ago, in days gone by, when there were fewer cells and we had to share the one wireless joystick between the three of us, J and I would “roll the ball” in the evenings, pushing our glorious, beautiful wad of junk across rooms, grocery stores, through zoos— you know… the usual.

We revisited the same thing about a year ago, via Katamari Forever on the PS3, but with this winter’s loss of all my PS3 save data due to hardware failure, we’re replaying. Rolling the ball is still a great experience. Gaia plays along now.

Rolling the ball.... Must be the holidays.

(Hey Sony, I have dex-drive based backups of my Resident Evil 2 save files on my hard drive from 1999-- not that they aren't also still on the memory cards still hanging out of the PlayStation. Remind me why you decided I can’t make backups of my save files any more?)