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Most Fun Standing Up

I played with my Wii today. 

Seriously.

I'm not ashamed or embarrassed to admit it.

I played with it long and hard.

It was fun.

It was satisifying.

I played with it so intensely  that my left wrist and elbow (I’m left handed) both cramped up, and my palm turned crimson from working the “joystick” for so long.

When it was over, I was spent, sweaty and exhausted.

And then,  after taking about twenty minutes to replenish myself, I played with it again!

Stamina!

Then, Mary Ellen walked into the room and caught me. It was THEN I discovered that , when playing with your Wii, the pleasure increases one hundred fold when you have a partner!

  Mary Ellen and I bought the electronic contraption for each other for Christmas,  and it is truly an amazing machine!

With this game system, you hold controls in your hands, and a sensor bar that is set near your TV picks up your movements and portrays them in the form of an animated character on the TV screen.

I played tennis, boxing, golf and baseball today. Actually, Mary Ellen and I both stunk at the games, but  did we ever fun with them!

AND, what impressed me most about my virginal experience with Wii was that I assembled the whole thing and hooked it up to the TV ALL BY MYSELF!!!!!  I even read the directions, and…DID IT ALL RIGHT THE FIRST TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Those of you who are loyal readers of this blog understand that this is a HUGE achievement, since my technological skills are somewhere close to those of your average weiner dog.)

When I proudly told my son Scott about my gigantic feat, he snickered and said, “Dad! It’s all color coded!”

Yeah? So??!! You STILL have to know that the YELLOW Wii plug goes into the YELLOW jack on the side of the TV, don’t you?

KIDS!

posted on Dec 27, 2008 5:50 AM ()

Comments:

Hey uh Jim...ya still got the Atari? Pong is getting a little boring... Truth is I'm a major video game addict, wii is on the list but I don't have it yet. PS-2, probably 100('s) of PC games, Nintendo... now you make me want the wii even more...see ya, I gotta check something on E-Bay...
comment by justmyopinion on Jan 8, 2009 2:56 PM ()
Oh fun! I'd love a Wii! You can get quite a work out. As for hooking up electronic gadgets, it took us about a good two hours to figure out how to hook up our blue-ray machine to our TV, program it and learn how to simply turn on a movie.
comment by mellowdee on Jan 5, 2009 10:16 AM ()
Your probably right. I told my parents they needed to get me one. HAHA! I was like I love this thing.
comment by spicybitch on Dec 30, 2008 6:54 AM ()
OMG I love it too! I am terrible at it and I love it. I am addicted and I don't even have one.
comment by spicybitch on Dec 29, 2008 7:12 AM ()
comment by strider333 on Dec 28, 2008 6:07 PM ()
I am glad you had fun with it, but you have broken man rule #106. It reads "thou shall never admit that you have read the directions before assembly, especially where your wife or any other female might gain this knowledge." You have let all MAN kind down. Your beer privileges have been revoked for 1 hour.
comment by grumpy on Dec 28, 2008 11:55 AM ()
Wow... you got a lot of responses with this blog!!!! I hear that Wii is really fun. My grandchildren are entertained for hours. My daughter has much more free time now that they own Wii. She can't quit singing its praises.

Sounds like good exercise to me.
comment by anniel on Dec 28, 2008 11:32 AM ()
Great post Jim. We have yet to get a Wii, but maybe next year Santa will bring one.
comment by busymichmom on Dec 28, 2008 9:00 AM ()
I play wii with my 6yr old grandson. He always beats me. Baseball is my favorite.
comment by carrryon on Dec 28, 2008 1:27 AM ()
I must admitted. I played too. Tennis and baseball. I am a Wiialcolic.
comment by cindy on Dec 27, 2008 8:37 PM ()
I am so impressed by your connecting skills. I still have to get converter boxes et al for my analog TVs, and am quite nervous that I will be a complete flop at connecting everything and getting any kind of HDTV image on the damn things. I can see myself going back and forth to Radio Shack to get necessary but not mentioned add-ons, one after another, like a rat in a maze. Heaven help me!
comment by marta on Dec 27, 2008 9:37 AM ()
John was telling me all about your new wii. We really stay up with the times here. We just got our first HDTV! Hey, they have those things for baseball, tennis, golf.....do you think they have one for knitting??? Well, my new gun will keep me busy for awhile. I my gun.
comment by donnaaa on Dec 27, 2008 9:18 AM ()
I LOVE mine to death. You'll have to get yourself MarioKart for the Wii. I'll add you to my friends list and we can play over the internet.
comment by oombutu on Dec 27, 2008 8:19 AM ()
You aren't the only greaser who got one of these. Actually, the other one that I know of is the daughter of a greaser, but same difference. I'm surprised I didn't hear about this before Christmas, although I'm sure Donna would have still preferred her shotgun.
comment by jjoohhnn on Dec 27, 2008 7:58 AM ()
My technological skills are right there with yours....ZERO. My son gave me a digital photo frame and said he would set it up for me cause(and I quote)"You are completely helpless about that stuff". The more I hear about the Wii the more I think I want one. Sounds like fun.
comment by gapeach on Dec 27, 2008 7:38 AM ()
My "new" DVD player stills sits in the box waiting for me to gather the strength to undo the old VCR. Scares me!
comment by solitaire on Dec 27, 2008 6:42 AM ()

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