Guitar Hero II

I've been surpassed

We've had Guitar Hero II now for about 3 weeks. It is still a great game made better. They have a new practice mode which is pretty cool and the face off mode is better beacause you can battle at two different levels. Alex loves the game. She wants to learn how to play a couple of the songs on a real guitar now.

I enjoy the game also but Alex has passed me in the game. She pretty much doubles my score when we play head to head. I guess I'm going to have to practice a little more. We took it to Grandma and Grandpa's on Thanksgiving and everyone who played had a blast. It was funny to turn around and see pretty much everyone watching Alex play.

I enjoy watching her have fun.

Ready of Not

Here I come!

There are relatively few childrens games that I can play with the girls. Last Sunday Emma asked me to play hide and go seek. The first thought that entered my head was "not really, I'm busy doing nothing." But I said what the heck. So Emma and I began the game. We played inside so there aren't that many good spots but we made due.

After a couple of rounds of counting to 27 and then searching Alex wanted to join. This was good for me since it opened up a couple of already used spots to hide in for me. Being indoors the spots are limited anyway. Needless to say we had a pretty good time. There was quite a bit of laughing and a number of screams from being startled but all in all it was fun. I'm glad we played.

Yahtzee

Skill or Luck

I’m not a very lucky person when it comes to games of chance. I pretty much play at the whim of the game gods, whoever that is. On the other hand my beautiful bride is the complete opposite. She needs to roll a six, oh… there it is. Maybe a five to complete the large straight, oh… there it is. “Another Yahtzee!!” It’s very frustrating.

I’m not sure whose idea it was to play but when Emma asked me to join I couldn’t say no. So I went in to the game with a rather negative attitude and I’m sorry to say that I pretty much drug the game down, for that I’m sorry. Things picked up towards the end and the girls were pretty good sports about not completely filling out there cards. And of course, Angela won.

Parent Teacher Conferences

What are they good for?

We had parent/teacher conferences for the girls last week. Nothing unexpected came up. So, my question is this. What are these conferences supposed to accomplish? I can understand them if your child isn't doing as well as expected and you have some questions, but it just seems like an ego stroke to me. I came out of both of them with no more insight about the girls than I had when I went into them.

I guess I should be thankful that the girls perform as well as they do. Sometimes I think that they need more of a challenge. For that I suppose I'll have to come up with something on my own since the teachers don't seem to have any ideas about how to do that.

I do have one last comment about the conference. I think that I'm invisible. I noticed that whenever we talked to the teachers that they seemed to speaking to Angela and not pay any attention to me. Not sure why this is. Maybe someone has some ideas...

Guitar Hero

The best game is getting better

I posted a little while ago about having something in common with Alex and how great it was. This is about another thing that needs some attention.

In my opinion one of the best video games ever, that's right I said ever, has to be Guitar Hero for the Playstation 2. It has everything that a video game has to have. It is a very easy game to pick up and excel at and it is playable by a wide range of people. Alex loves the game and has now passed me in skill level. The idea behind this game is that you get to play the lead guitar in a band. The guitar is actually a replica Gibson SG with buttons instead of strings and a strummer to play the notes.

I bring the game up because it's getting better and both Alex and I have been looking forward to this for sometime now. Tomorrow Guitar Hero 2 should be at the house. I've had a pre-order in for what seems like forever and finally it is out. The new game allows for lead, rhythm and bass guitar. If you ever wanted to play the guitar without learning and want a little more of a challenge than the air guitar, this game is the one for you.

Rock On!