Continuing in the Buying New Stuff vein, for a moment: I used to use the standard Apple Pro optical mouse that comes with new Macs these days, and it was a decent mouse as far as one-button optical mice go, but I’d been meaning to buy a two- or three-button for a while. Finally, though, my Apple Pro gave up the ghost about a week ago and I was relegated to using the god-awful iMac hockey puck I’ve had kicking around since 1997. I took that as a sign and ordered what seemed to me to be a shockingly cheap Logitech - it’s been a long time since I’ve had to buy a new mouse, but I don’t remember opticals going for fourteen dollars. It showed up today and I’m pretty happy with it - it’s not a freakishly many-buttoned mouse like the sort Spencer favors, but it’s a perfectly decent one (especially for under fifteen bucks).

Advance Wars, incidentally, is the only GBA game to ever make me miss a subway stop. I was completely oblivious to the Q’s arrival at 14th yesterday, and very nearly missed Times Square on my way home this afternoon. It’s not my fault that little anime tank battles are so engrossing, I swear!