Morning update.

[rivka]

Alex woke up at 6am thinking she was going to throw up, but mercifully (a) it was a false alarm, and (b) she went back to sleep for another two hours. No fever this morning, and she's been able to manage about a pint of fluids and a few Ritz crackers. She still looks pretty peaked, though, and I'm not convinced that the fever is going to stay gone.

Poor kid. I hope she's better in time for Halloween parties and trick-or-treating.

Colin is congested and coughing but I don't think he has the flu. Man, are his new teeth (he has one and a half now) freakishly razor-sharp.

Nia-our-nanny is running a fever today too. I am home with the kids. Apparently, yesterday half of Alex's class was out sick. HALF. When I run down my Facebook feed it seems like everyone I know is either sick with the flu, or has kids with the flu, or just got over the flu, or is coming down with the flu. I guess that's what they mean by "pandemic," huh?

In other news, even though I was exhausted last night I broke out my birthday present, Dance Dance Revolution for the Wii. I haven't really played DDR before, so I spent most of my time on the lesson tracks, but even so it was totally fun. And a good workout! I think Michael's going to enjoy playing it too. Alex wanted to play but was totally unable to master the concept.

Comments

[matthewwdaly.livejournal.com]

Yay DDR! My brother has the original Hottest Party and he was a fan, although it was surprisingly hard and completely necessary (in his opinion) to turn off the hand motions. My only problem with it is that I've been spoiled by my PS2 setup with its semi-pro dancepad and Konami is still fighting cross-platform pad compatibility for some reason.

If my nephew is any indication, then Alex will struggle for a while and then suddenly become the champion of the house. I think they played for a while with Dad dancing and Z. clapping along with the arrows, and then Dad dancing and Z. alternatively stomping his feet along with the arrows until the foot-eye coordination set in.

Turning off gimmicks & hand markers in DDR

[brainwane (from livejournal.com)]

I couldn't stand the gimmicks & hand markers in DDR for the Wii, because the Wii doesn't register those nunchuk and Wiimote shakes or button hits consistently, so I turned them off. Here's how:

http://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2008/03/19/0

Hope you enjoy the game! I love DDR.

[kiya]

We had "flu-like illness" here that limited itself to whispercricket.