Just got back from the store and picked up Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii. $43.79 at Costco, not too bad.

I remember fondly how Nintendo used to come out with a new Mario game with each new system launch. That pattern went away, but who doesn’t love these Mario games? I’m looking forward to breaking open the package and getting lost in the gameplay. Some of my favorite gaming memories are with that red hat plumber. Super Mario 3 is my all time favorite Mario game and on my top five videogames ever list.

Also on tomorrow’s to-do list, work (it’s hump day!), reading a new book I also bought tonight on Flash CS3, more work, blogging somewhere between, and in the meantime filling up this shelf with CDs:

We were out of shelf space to keep our CD collection in order. I’ve spent the last few weeks going through our collection and re-ripping to MP3 at 320kbps. We’re up over 4,000 songs and there still is over a rack full of CDs to go through. Some of the CDs, I’m learning are scratched and need to be repaired if possible.

According to iTunes, which is the primary tool being used to archive the collection, we’re up over 30GB. I’m pretty sure we’ll be under the 80GB limit of my wife’s iPod fifth generation. After the CD ripping is done I have to go back and finish inventorying our DVD collection. We need another shelf for those too. I’m still using the handy program Delicious Library on the Mac (review) with the iSight camera to keep our CD, DVD, games and to a lesser extent books in order.

Have you been keeping up with your inventory duties? Remember, if you have a fire or loss, your homeowner’s (or renter’s) insurance policy requires an inventory of the items. Might as well be proactive instead of reactive.

Listened to music on the Zune most of today but never did figure out how to get my plays to register on my Zune profile on the official Zune website? Seems from the Zune forums like I’m not alone.

Dinner calls. See you on the other side rested and refueled.

• New Super Mario Bros. released today for DS
• Super Mario first side scroller in 10 years gets DS nod in May
• Super Mario Rampage
• Video of Super Mario Brothers race beating the game in just over 6 minutes
• Anti-theft game packaging workout
• Xbox 360 #1 in most games sold per console … until Super Mario Galaxy comes out