Online Gaming - Woe Is Thee?

Mothers day was okay. My errant child did not email or make any attempt at contact...which wasn't as disturbing as it should have been. And the favoured son sent a nice card with Rodeo tickets. Huh? Rodeo? Okay, he won them for a Rodeo in Lindsay but he lives in Hamilton...so he figures I'm a lot closer and thus....at the end of the month I am going to a Rodeo. Yee-ummmm-haw?

My buddy wants me to online game with him. He is still disappointed that I haven't gone XBox Live. I can't afford it right now and the whole highspeed internet thingy out here just hurts my head. He is dying to kick my ass. I'd invite him over for a head-to-head...he likes beer so if I start to lose I'll just ply it into him until I have the upper hand....but his wife wouldn't let him and it would be an emotional meltdown of nuclear porportions at his house so I couldn't do that to him...or to a fellow female so...he can't come out to play. Life just sucks that way sometimes.

He seemed disappointed that I don't WoW anymore. He tried to coerce me into joining another server and playing free (read "illegal") but he games on it with his kids. His kids are 12 and under and it caused me to get a whooshing noise in my ears...which I suspect means my blood pressure dropped...or was starting to rise....which I took to mean I was entering a stressful panic mode of indescript rationale and I stammered "Uh, no thanks" so then he bragged about his 80 lvl rating but still couldn't tempt me back to my Belf ways. The best part about WoW was finding out how many insane things I could do on the back of my purple & blue ostrichy-mutant-chicken pet "Ralph" Otherwise WoW got old and boring kinda quick for me. Which I know makes me a sinner of HUGE portions to the many WoW fans. (Will they stone me if they find me?)

I do wish I could online game sometimes....maybe not all the time...but sometimes, it would be fun to have a hood of fellow gamers to belong to and game epic. On the other hand, solo is okay too. I can move at my own pace and game when I want - like at 3 a.m. when I can't sleep. I can move as fast as I want and I can also stop and explore as long as I want.

My buddy clings to the fact that I still game and that I am good at it. He is about 10 years my junior so he thinks that because I game, and game badass, it is his hope for his future. (That he'll never have to surrender it either.) Meantime I wonder....does one ever get too old to game? When I game I don't even think about my age, I am not aware of it, I am just gaming. At work, they haven't a clue that I secretly save countries, worlds and universes. Its like being a comic heroine in some graphic novella. Gaming is something their kids or grandkids do. What can I say...once a gamer geek, always a gamer geek? When would I ever stop being myself and is being a gamer being myself?

And dammitt!!!! He never sent me the instructions on how to download virtual XP just to play my old games in. I think I should be able to hunt him down for that one. I get the download, I just need to know....how do I get the virtual to play just my games in the virtual...do I set up a folder and download the games to there? Yeah....I gotta get on his case for an answer or figure it out for myself. This was like when I was learning PHP. Slow torture. Its just I haven't had the time and when I've had time...meh...I didn't feel like researching it.