Bill Roper's Journal

In the course of conversation today, SR said that she'd been seeing people saying that the best way to deal with the setup time for a Wii/Xbox/etc was to take it out of the box the week before Christmas and plug it in, let it run its updates and patches, then put it back in the box. (Or, conversely, after getting it set up, tape the box back up, wrap it and put it under the tree. Meanwhile, hook the system up on Xmas Eve and tuck it under/behind some furniture in the room so it's ready to play.)

I was always Mean Mommy and didn't let them play Xmas computer games until Boxing Day.