Psychotomy

So, I had something else I was going to post about, but I’ve spent two days now and I can only remember it in the middle of my trainride or a meeting or somewhere equally inaccessible.

Instead, I’m going to kvetch about the fact that Kiir has stolen the XBox 360!!!

For her birthday, she got her mom to agree to buy a tv for the bedroom. So she could play games or watch a movie or SOMETHING after DK falls asleep. Since she’s stll nursing him at night, she has to go up with him. And since he still wakes up if he’s left alone in the bed, she has to stay with him. And after the first year or so, it started getting a touch TEDIOUS. Don’t get me wrong, she likes reading her romance novels. And she boots up one or the other of the laptops and pokes around online. But the laptops aren’t great for games, and even though she likes to read it’s nice to do something different occasionally.

This weekend we picked up a tv at best buy yesterday we set it up. And when they went up last night, I took DK up, she took the X. Now it lives in the bedroom. Which may make it quite tedious when he wakes up and wants me to play games for an hour or two before we go to bed again. And weekend mornings when he frequently gets up noticeably before her and we play games.

Because, frankly? Mario Kart he swipes my wheel and that gets boring to watch me sit in the middle of the course. Even if he is learning how to control the Karts. Wii Sports? It’s gotten old and tired. I’m at the point now where I either get trounced, and down a slot of difficulty, or I kick ass, and go up the same slot. And I can only play so many frames of Bowling. Mario Party? Group, and DK don’t count yet. Kabookii? Same. Boom Blox — well, it’s still new and playable at least. But there’s still the fundamental problem that Wii games don’t lend themselves to sitting peacefully on the floor whilst a toddler naps across you.

Blue Dragon. Lost Odyssey. Assassin’s Creed. Mass Effect. These all lent themselves to it nicely. Even Lego Star Wars worked.

I may need to check Craigs or Ebay for used X’s :o

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