This deer head is hanging out outside our back door. There's no hiding death from a three year old here. Steve and I keep laughing at the strangeness of it and Aidan is having trouble understanding what is so funny.

We went to Crossgates Mall last night in Albany to see The Jungle Book 2. We could have seen it in Hudson, but we went with Jes and family and Jes is a Mac head and there is a Mac store in the mall there. I found all kinds of things there that I didn't know I couldn't live without. A color printer that makes great photo quality prints for under $200, Knock Out, a Photoshop upgrade so I can start using OSX, a case for my laptop (I carry it around in the most absurd things), a digital video camera. We are finally getting on the ball with setting up recording equipment that was given to Steve and now we are going to buy his brother's old G3 which has MOTU installed on it (for really cheap!). I definitely want to get Aidan his own computer. He loves to play with mine and he messes things up for me sometimes, but at the same time I am amazed at how good he is at getting around on it and remembering how to do things. He checked the e-mail on my laptop the other day and the trackpad on it is tricky.

So the really bloggable thing about the mall yesterday was that there was this video game section at the movie theatre and there was a game there that you dance on with a big crowd of people around it. There was a girl and a guy playing it and another older man (balding - 40s?) next to them dancing on the ground. I'm not exactly sure how it worked, but it seemed like symbols flashed on the screen to show the players where their feet should go and the players had to follow on these big colored discs. The result looked like a fast choreographed dance, with the two players and the guy on the ground in perfect sync. It was so strange, but amazing too. I wonder if people have seen these things in other places? Is it a phenomenon?