Grasshopper No.5 is scheduled to move to a new apartment before the end of June. I’m sure the excitement is high. The thought of packing up all her stuff is a “downer”.
When Mom and I were in Minneapolis, Grasshopper No.5 talked about her job at the News Magazine which is owned by GameStop. Her job is all about games. It involves the latest news releases on video games. It is about selling new and used video games at retail outlets around the world. Lately it is about downloading games to ipads, ipods and iphones. Of course there is the obligation by Grasshopper No.5 to “try out” games so that she can talk first hand about new technology. I know that Grasshopper No.5 teams with her older brother (Grasshoppper No.4) by internet connection to a national hookup video game on Saturday or Sunday mornings to try and outwit the world. Really?
Grasshopper No.5 used the word “gamer”. In fact she indicated that she and I were a lot alike. We are both “gamers”. What the hell does that mean? I don’t play video games. No.5’s explanation is that gamers like a challenge. Gamers like to win. Gamers are super competitive. Gamers take great delight in driving a stake through the heart of a vampire.
Somewhere in life I must have given Grasshopper No.5 the idea that I possessed “gamer” qualities. Just because I never let you kids win at sports is not an indicator. Just because I need a goal and strategy with tactics to get there. Just because…. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
I guess I can see what No.5 was talking about. I like to picture myself as loving teddybear just wanting to enjoy each situation and not be obsessed with winning. Apparently that is a misconception. Now the question is “is being gamer a good thing”?
Watch your gardens grow. Lots of rain and humid weather coming.
Love,
Dad