So there’s a batch here that should have been posted before, but instead were just saved to my private space. There’s nothing too exciting. so you haven’t missed much…

The games got to be WAY too complicated for me. There were too many buttons, too many combinations of buttons, too much happening. It wasn’t fun any more.

But this week I was in Calgary, and played some games on the Wii game system with my kids. Now this is more like it.

Two buttons. Not three buttons, no combination moves (push up twice while holding the b and d button and pressing the bottom fire button), no frustration.

In fact, in some games ou don’t even have to press a button. You just wave that little controller around in the air, and you’re playing a game.

Simple. Easy. Fun.

And it’s exercise. I was worn out after a game of tennis. I needed the break at the 7th inning stretch in baseball. And Boxing was gonna kill me one way or the other. I needed I shower. I was stinky and sweaty. (Smart remarks are not necessary here )

I don’t really mean to sound like a commercial. But it was the first video game thingy that I’ve played in years that I didn’t feel like a bumbling idiot. After all, it’s just a game, and it’s supposed to be fun. Not a challenge.

So Santa, if you have a leftover Wii at the end of your journey on Christmas Eve, you can leave it at my house.