Although I had been planning to buy one for a while, it wasn't until yesterday after I placed an order for Wii Play at Amazon that I decided we should go ahead and acquire a Wii. Phone calls to the usual suspects yesterday turned up nothing. I decided to strike again today at lunch time. Bingo! My first call, to Meijer, confirmed that they had just ONE in stock. I raced over, ran in, and asked if they still had it. "Are you the person who just called?" they asked. Yup, I said. "That was fast!" they replied.

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I'm interested in energy efficiency, which is why I have been gradually replacing the incandescent light bulbs in our house with compact fluorescents, or CF's. We had already been using fluorescents where possible, usually tubes or circular shapes, but now that CF's have gone mainstream, almost any incandescent bulb is a candidate for replacement. The difference in energy usage is phenomenal. I have been replacing 40W bulbs with 9W ones; 60W with 13W and 100W with 23W. I'm amazed that the light output of the new bulbs is just as good as the old ones. It really shows how much energy is wastefully and undesirably used to make heat in an incandescent bulb.

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