Guitar Hero

I am shocked to find that grown adults play so many video games. During my adventure to Phoenix, I had the pleasure of playing Guitar Hero III. We were at a party with all of Swallow's friends, when all the sudden they busted out the game. Swallow was quick to inform everyone at the party that I would be extremely bad, since I am tone deaf. Now if that doesn't sound like a challenge, I don't know what is! So, I tell Swallow to bring it on. I proceed to wipe the floor with her. She wants a rematch, but I walk away a winner. I knew if I played again, she would find her rhythm and beat the living pants off of me. I could see how the game would get addicting. After all, I only played for one song, yet the next time I was on a computer I bought the wireless version for my PS2 so that we could play at home.

Guitar Hero III arrived this morning. I didn't tell Swallow that it had arrived until about 3:30, she responded with, I have one more appointment and then I will be home so we can play. Who knew someone could have an appointment, and drive 22 miles in rush hour traffic and be home at 4:45. It sure seemed like someone was pretty excited about playing Guitar Hero III. She played a couple of songs while I was making dinner. I literally, had to tell her to turn the game off when dinner was ready. I now know how my mom felt when she would have to tell us five or six times to stop playing Nintendo.

After dinner, I decided I'd give my new toy a little action. Apparently, if you are bad enough at the game, you get booed off the stage. I promptly got booed off the first five times. A couple of the songs, I didn't even make it for the first quarter of the song. The highest percent of a song I completed was 56, at least I made it half way through, right? I thought Swallow might have a heart attack, she was literally rolling on the ground in laughter, at my poor performance.

After she got herself back to a normal state, she wanted to go to Walmart and get another guitar so we could have a face off. I slowly figured out how to play on the EASY setting, but at least I wasn't getting booed off the stage anymore. The good news for me, during the face off I won 9 out of 11 matches before she quit. We also played together to try and win more money, however, that didn't really work out in our favor. If one of us was doing well, the other did extremely poorly...OF COURSE we were booed off the stage, numerous times. Mr. T came home in the middle of this, and got some free entertainment, watch Swallow and I rock out to Guitar Hero. After Swallow retired for the night Mr. T stepped in to play a little while. He beat me, and beat me badly. I retired after that whoopin!

Don't you worry, I will be practicing! I am a little too competitive for my own good, and I need to make sure I can win before the crew gets here next week.