‘Video Games’ Posts(2)
The quick brown fox jumped over the good, but lazy Parker family.
signs my wife could very well be a boy …
Monday, 14 July 2008
Video Games
with apologies to letterman, here are the top five signs the person you married might be a boy … (all said by the lady sparkler this week):
| 5. | "Awesome! You didn’t tell me the Tour de France was on — move over." |
| 4. | "Of course you should get an iPhone!" |
| 3. | "Dychenko is starting in midfield for D.C.? Oh, well … he can’t be worse than Gallardo." |
| 2. | "I think Evan would make a great house-husband." |
| 1. | "Hi, honey … I’m home. Can we play video games tonight?" |
as for the latter, after more than a little effort, the lady sparkler and i have beaten super mario galaxy through the first time in two-player mode. i completely sold her short, thinking she’d bail after the first couple of challenges.
turns out she was totally addicted, and was literally bouncing up and down as we polished off the 100th challenge last night.
so, the family bought me a wii for my birthday this year … the vermont parkers have one, the virginia parkers have one, and there was this notion that we might be able to play together if i got one too (and then quietly explain to everyone how to hook them up together via the interweb).
i think this is the first time in recorded history that i have been the last adopter of new technology in my family. what’s even more strange is that the lady sparkler (a) comes home from work and wants to play wii as soon as she walks through the door, and (b) invites other people to come over to play with my video game console … and they are (gasp!) even female.
truly, i have entered some strange parallel universe where geeks get the hot chicks, everyone speaks Klingon, and the varsity a/v club slams the basketball team into the lockers everyday after gym. oh, and everyone in this magical land of dork-dom speaks only in movie quotes, uses their windows computer as a doorstop, and tina fey was just elected president.
ahhhh, it’s good to be home.