just sitting around, hanging out this afternoon

okay so i know i've mentioned the whole, this younger generation is not looking for waldo but seeing as this is my blog, i can talk about it again if i want to. my brother had to go in to the doctor for a test the other day and when he came home, me and my sister obviously asked about it. his response, "it was pretty boring and pointless. they put me on a treadmill and the nurse was like 'okay look at this poster and keep walking until you find waldo.' i walked for like two hours before i said i found him, and i dont think i even did." we laugh and say that, yes, finding waldo could be hard. he says, "um.. who's waldo? is he some kind of baseball player?" me and my sister die. of course, not knowing who or what he was looking for obviously made the search harder for him, and there would be know way he would admit to the nurse that he didnt know what he was looking for. this kid likes to think that he knows everything. and something about doctors/nurses make him up his i-can-do-everything levels. a couple of years ago he came home and admitted that he "cheated on his hearing test at school because he had failed the eye one and couldn't fail twice."

on another note, while watching cartoons with my brothers the other day, i realized that the commercials have changed a lot from when i was the targeted audience of cartoon breaks. instead of a hundred commercials for awesome looking toys that immediately make you run to your parents begging for them only to be told no, there was just commercial after commercial of online games. this has been happening for a while, but it didnt really hit me as strange till then. mixed in with the online game commercials are yogurt and cereal ones. then you have a few nintendo ds ads and occasionally there will be one about robotic hamsters or something. and then we wonder why kids sit on the computer all day instead of actually doing something.

*This Afternoon - Nickelback