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I got a dual analogue logitech controller. I tried Goldeneye emulated.

HOLY CRAP IT'S AWESOME!!!

It might take me a little while to get used to the analogue (it seems more sensitive than on the N64 -- unless it can be calibrated). BUT....

The graphics look better. The frame rate is higher. It looks better aside from animation, too, though. Texture smoothing, maybe? I did notice, though, that the sky above the bridge has no detail. No fog?

The control has a chance to be even better. Imagine being able to aim with the left pad and strafe with the right. I think the dual shock template puts more buttons within reach than the N64 controller (IMHO, if you're using the analogue stick and the buttons, then the digital pad is not accessible) The default shooting button was what I'd call the start button, which is of course unusable, but you can switch it to a shoulder button, which makes it feel like a gun / N64 controller.

That controller works really well with N64 games, but I haven't had much luck with it yet with NES games. By default, they cause it to use the left analogue stick as the dpad, and obviously I'd prefer for it to use the digital pad.

The nice thing about the N64 emulator is that to configure something as "up" or "c left" or whatever, you select that, then press the button that you want to have that function. I'm not aware of any NES emulators that let you do that.

We went out to a shopping center area for lunch. I had some kung pao chicken and it was really good!

At a Barnes and Nobles I saw a little book that I guess collects Einstein's original work on relativity. I figured, "What the heck" and got it. I guess when I do read something for adults lately, it does have a tendency to be about physics, but at least this might be "fun".

I got a toy harmonica, prompting FO to ask if I really needed it. No, but it was cheap and I was curious what it'd be like. It's kind of weird. It seems to me (I didn't test it objectively) that it's in the key of C, but with a weird tuning, like

EGCEGCEG
ABDFABDF

I think it's tremolo tuned (two reeds per note) and every reed has its own hole (so if your mouth is only opened enough for one hole, you won't get both blow and draw notes. And depending on how you center your mouth around two holes, you might get blows and draws that are staggered compared to how I wrote them above) I don't know how that would affect things like bending yet.

I'd guess you'd be better off getting a cheap Hohner if you were a parent and wanted to get an inexpensive for a child.