Wii few, Wii happy few
So I got a slightly early birthday present there. Somewhere, my wife scrounged together some money, and, along with a Gamestop gift card that John “felixthegamer” Morrison sent me around Christmas, went and got me a Wii. I’ve only been obsessing over this thing since it came out, and my wife admitted that the tipping point was when my dad came to visit and actually complained because he was hoping I’d have a Wii set up – he knows someone who has one and he loves the thing – and was disappointed when Mr. Video Game Collecting Guy didn’t even have a Wii. You know, when you pass yourself off as a video game historian (though I’m starting to think that, given my post-NES-era blind spot, maybe video game archaeologist is a better title – it says “fossils” right up at the top for a reason, folks), and even make part of your living from it, and your 85-year-old dad busts your balls because you haven’t even got a stinkin’ Wii… well, that is kind of embarrassing. Considering the outcome of that complaint, I’d like for my dad to complain about my grievous lack of a million bucks and a hot tub next time he visits.
I’ll post my Wii code tomorrow or over the weekend, though I’ll warn you up front that, for now, I’ve just got Wii Sports and that’s it; I can’t even believe I’ve got one of these in my living room, and expanding the library certainly isn’t a line item in the budget at the moment. But you know what? I’m so jazzed by this thing that even Wii Sports is awesome. I liked it way back when, and I still like it – if it puts things in perspective, my three favorite video baseball games are Wii Sports baseball, the original Baseball on the Game Boy, and Baseball! for the Odyssey2. I don’t care about anyone’s stats or career batting average, I just want to hit a frakkin’ ball on the screen. Wii Sports will do me just fine for a while.
Without saying too much because I don’t want to jinx it, I’ve talked to someone about a job this week which would be a godsend in terms of pay, benefits, and being interesting to me personally with my areas of knowledge and interest. It would, however, be quite a drive every day, which means it’d eat into my Evan time. Thankfully, it’s not in broadcast, so don’t worry, it doesn’t mean you’ll have to put up with me again. 😆 As reluctant as I am about a job that would steal an hour or so of Evan-and-daddy time away from me each day, this would be a big help to us, and would kind of spin my career off in a different direction from what anyone might have thought to expect, so…think good thoughts, please.
More good news as it arrives; I’m just gonna continue to throw bad news into the round file. Along with all the bills. These people think they can just send something in the mail and get my money? What the hell?
Once again, a huge thanks to my wife, and to John too – this is just awesome.… Read more
