You ever have one of those weeks where it seems like life is just kicking you around?  It's not necessarily bad, but it could be a lot better?

And then the planets align, the heavens part, and suddenly you're invincible and on top of the world? 

Yeah, I'm having one of those weeks.

Great things that have happened in the past 48 hours include, but definitely are not limited to:

1.  The release of Contra 4.  The box art alone is enough to put hair on your chest.  This is by far the manliest game of all time.  It makes you want to rip your shirt off and go running through the jungle with a shotgun.  It makes Master Chief look like Barbie with a breast reduction.  This is stupidly amazing.  Not to mention the back of the game, usually filled to the brim with words and descriptions, contains only four phrases:

Guns.  Aliens.  Spread Shot.  CARNAGE.

If that's not enough to get your testosterone pumping, you need to go hang yourself with a wet noose.

2.  Street Fighter Anniversary Collection.  Oh yes, the glory days of me and my brother going back and forth on the SNES have returned onto the PS2, although this time through, it's going to be beating the living snot out of my friends in Street Fighter III: Third Strike (the game so great, they made three incarnations of it).

3.  The fact that both of these games had only one copy left at the time I went to purchase them is amazing in and of itself.

4.  I almost got into a huge accident on I-65 on my way to GameStop.  However, I'm still alive.  I blame Jay-Z for his music making me so hyphy.  Yes, Sheridan, hyphy.

5.  I'm buzzing on two hours' sleep.  And I don't even feel all that tired.

6.  I got a free giant tray of fried rice from my job yesterday.  Free.  Giant.  Fried rice.  I'll be carbing up for weeks!

And there's plenty more, but alas, I hunger.  I am going to go devour some hot dogs and call it an evening, what with the whole no sleep thing and the fact that I have video games calling me.

Next time:  What are friends for?