So, this afternoon, on the way back to the office from lunch, we stopped off at the nearby Best Buy to play the Rock Band demo kiosk. It’s exactly as fun as you’d expect. You get all the entertainment of something like Guitar Hero, but cooperatively, it’s just a really awesome experience.

The drum kit felt good – almost as good as a generic practice kit. It’ll certainly get you to learn how to play drums in a really, really basic way. But tone and dynamics haven’t really been too much of a problem for me to pick up with instruments, so who knows – the introduction to hand-foot coordination will probably go a reasonable way toward a real lesson in drumming. Might be interesting.

The guitar controller is quite different than the Guitar Hero controller. A lot less noisy. Everything actually feels a little spongy, but in a good way. You’re not “click-click-click”ing along with the song anymore, which is nice. I’m *really* looking forward to this coming out. The song list is incredible, the variety is awesome, and with the DLC, longevity doesn’t look like it’s going to be a problem. With online play, count me all the way in.

On a slightly different note, the first couple days of eating sensibly again have gone pretty well. Been avoiding all the snacks I’d been picking up recently, and eating mostly reasonably-sized meals, which is good. Worked out properly on Tuesday, and will be going to the Y for a swim again tomorrow. Been taking Mobius on longer walks, and more brisk ones at that, so it’s been a bit more exercise, for sure. Call of Duty 4? Yes, please.

The only “bad” thing – tonight, I made some fried garlic plantains. A Puerto Rican restaurant called Sol Food has some awesome fried plantains, and I’ve been meaning to try to make them since I first had them there. The plantains we got weren’t as green as the ones they use (I’d guess), so they were a little sweeter. But with a bit of salt, and some garlic that’s been simmered in olive oil… man, they were good. Sweet, salty, crunchy, chewy… yum.