So Nintendo got smart of really bad earnings report to drop the price of their 3DS handheld.  (Not really associated, but still makes for a good starting line).

Anyhow, my daughter had finally saved up enough money to buy one for herself at the new 169.99 price point.  Well needless to say she is thrilled!  Good job Nintendo.  Plus the free Pokedex 3D made you even look better in her eyes!

Nintendo 3DS Aqua

So I try and go link up her 3DS eShop to her Club Nintendo account.  We follow the on screen instructions and everything and we get an error code 005-6403.  Hmmm.. well don’t we all love error codes that don’t tell you what they mean.  So off to Googling a go… hmmm nothing pops up on the code.  Find 005-6401, but no …3.  Well 45 minutes later I have tried all CAPS for the user name like some form post say.  Heck even in the UK you are suppose to use the Email address of the account apparently.  I start thinking it is because we have a family account where she is a child listed under my account.  Well come to find out I really was not that far off!

Thankfully (for my own sanity) I finally found a post that had a link to this on Nintendo’s site!

Error Code Lookup (http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/wfc/en_na/ds/lookup.jsp)

Well I type in the code and the magic appears…. “It appears you are attempting to link a Nintendo eShop Account to a Club Nintendo account for a child uder the age of 13.”

Well thank you very much.  First don’t you think that a huge demographic for 3DS and Nintendo in general is under 13!!!!  Ok, well now I at least knew what it meant.  So there is always a solution from here.  Just could no believe that even typing in the error code into Nintendo general search field did not take you to the error code lookup page. Hmmmm  Get on that web designers.

Needless to say, get an error code on your handheld, go to the site above and save yourself some pain and frustration.

Long live cute 3D Puppies and Kittens!

Happy New Year and may this year be even better than last year!

You know one (of many) of the simplest benefits of being a dad is when you can hear your child singing in the shower carefree and happy!

One of the perks that makes you smile inside and out!

Another Christmas has arrived, making one to think back where has the year gone again!

I hopefully everyone has a happy, joyful and peaceful Christmas.

I know I am looking forward to this years with Skylie.  It made it so much better with snow showing up at the beginning of the week for her to enjoy and be out of school and extra 3 days.

Merry Christmas

Some roads take a long time to travel.

Saw this one today and it makes you wonder.
There are some forty thousand Chinese restaurants in the United States — more than the number of McDonald’s, Burger Kings, and KFCs combined.

So 90% of everything in Wal-Mart are made in China.  Now even the fast food restaurants that I would of never guessed are being out done by cuisine from oversee’s as well.  Odd duck, I would of never thought that there were this many.  But once you start thinking about it, I seem to be able to find a Chinese restaurant about every 5 miles around where we live!