Alane and I aren't much like other married couples. Which is why we were able to celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary this week by playing Guitar Hero on the Wii. Guido and Kay and given one of the game discs to Da Chimpz for their birthdays but we did not yet have the guitar game controller.

So to mark our special day, I got us the guitar. And the game disc that came with it.

And then we played Guitar Hero for the rest of the night. It was strangely addictive, once you get past the initial learning curve. Alane had a bit of a challenge getting through her first song in its entirety, despite multiple tries -- if I had to hear "Slow Ride" by Foghat one more time on Thursday night, I probably would have had to burn the house down.

But like I say, once you get the hang of it, you're in. We already finished off the first disc in Easy mode; the other one has a lot of Aerosmith which I can take or leave... but I keep wanting to open up the new songs so I keep playing them.

And speaking of music, we also went to see Robert Plant and Alison Krauss this week. Lemme tell you something: when I see guys with banjos and fiddles on stage, that's usually a good indication that I walked into the wrong bar. What was Robert Plant thinking?