Rock Band / green card

After a week of bureaucratic green card B.S (nearly done now!), it was nice to have a few beverages with Julie and Jason over the weekend. Then Hillary mentioned that they had in their possession (for a couple of days at least...) the genius that is Rock Band.

Now, for those who don't know videogames, it is essentially a game where you play fake real life instruments along to an on screen sound and rhythm track. It sounds kind of lame, but add in friends, alcohol and a literally amazing fake drum kit and you get this...



Unfortunately I haven't got any photos of when I saw a million faces and rocked them all with a rendition of Bon Jovi's 'Wanted Dead or Alive'. Everyone in the room was crying after the performance, so moved were they. Hillary still tears up now thinking about it.

As I say, the green card paperwork is almost done now, but that didn't stop last week from being intensely annoying. On Wednesday we had to turn out and go to Raleigh (about half an hour's drive from Durham) so I could have a 'medical', which in the end turned out to be one MMR shot and a doctor transferring my medical records to yet another form. Getting the right size photo taken was a pain as nowhere in Durham seemed to have an actual passport photo booth. There were plenty of comedy 'get your portrait sketched by Van Gogh' type places and a few photography shops that wanted to charge $15 for two passport photos, which we thought was rather unnecessary. Anyway, it's done now. All we have left is to have it finally checked by the lawyer and to send it off.

I may well have to request to play more Rock Band once it goes out as way of celebration...