W00000000! Okay, so maybe not in the hardcore sense but still... I've been playing Fable 2 on our XBox 360 and getting pretty darn good at it. I have yet to play online with someone but Halo 3 is itching to be opened. When I first got the 360 I felt like a total outsider. Someone who wanted to fit in but didn't. Now I'm feeling like one of the group of people who play and enjoy it. Part of me wanted to learn it so I could feel more in tune with the world. I was walking into the store and some woman was talking about how when she was a child there were no real video games. I thought to myself, "My G-d. If it weren't for Pong I'd be that woman." I bitched about the games motion making me dizzy and not understanding how the controllers worked. In actuality I hadn't even tried. It was like I was slipping into the age of comfort and not wanting to move forward. Give me my 80s music, memories of cruising down Westwood Blvd. and go play your new fangled games. I'll keep my Atom Ant and Mighty Mouse memories while you talk about some yellow blob in the Pokemon show. I saw that woman and realized I was way too young to be her.

On Saturday Jake and I went to Verizon and this woman was being helped beside us. She was in her 70s or 80s and getting a cell phone. She was all dolled up and trying hard to understand how to use it. I could tell she was one sentence away from going back to her rotary phone. I thought about that woman in the store and wondered what age I would choose to stick with. When would I say that it's too hard to learn and I was happy with what I had? Everyone does it to some extent. They find a comfort zone and stick with it. The new and shiny is more work than enjoyment. The latest and greatest doesn't sound that great. The newest band sounds like screeching. The latest movie is like the other five hundred movies before them (and not as good as the classics). The clothes look too trashy. The hairstyle too messy. Too much work. Too much to memorize. Too much to comprehend. I hope it's a long time before I hit the 'too much' stage.

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