I restarted, although in the long run I doubt it will be worth it. I have gone down three caves, paid off about 30% of the debt and have access to three landing sites. Pikmin has a strange ability to be relaxing and stressful at the same time.
I started up Pikmin 2 for the first time. I haven’t got very far - just to the end of day two and I think I goofed, I went down into the cave before some of my Pikmin had finished moving a treasure back to the mothership - so I’ll have to go back there another day.
I’ve obviously been a very good boy and santa brought me a Nintendo DS with Mario Kart (which #1 seems to have commandeered), Zoo Keeper, Tony Hawk’s American Sk8land, Pikmin 2 and Alien Hominid. This week I am mostly playing Zoo Keeper, but that will change quite quickly I suspect once I get a wireless router.