Guitar Hero

I may have made a mistake. For Christmas, I got Brenda a Wii. I also got her Guitar Hero for her new Wii. Little did I know about the addictive power of Guitar Hero.

It started innocently enough. The day after Christmas, we went shopping for a new TV for Brenda. She needed a new TV because her ancient machine had no receptacles for audio/video cords. After going to Best Buy, Circuit City, and Costco twice, we settled on a 32" Samsung from Costco. Brenda finally owned a 21st Century TV.

We took the TV back to her place and began to set it up. It took like 30 minutes to undo the cord disaster she had created for hooking up her satellite receiver, VCR, and DVD player to the TV. I'm not really sure how it worked but she had some crazy setup of the satellite receiver connected to the DVD player, the DVD player connected to the VCR player, and the VCR player connected to the TV (or maybe it was something else; after a while I gave up trying to figure it out and just started disconnecting cords from everything).

After the epic undoing of the cord morass, the ancient TV was removed from the room and the new TV was set into its former place. The satellite receiver and Wii were connected to the new TV, and the system was checked to ensure both the satellite TV and Wii were working.

Then, we tested out the Wii. We started with the sports games that came with the Wii. We tried bowling (is this really a sport?), tennis, baseball, golf and boxing. Each game was fun but not really addicting. We then pulled out Guitar Hero. Three hours later, neither of us had done anything other than play Guitar Hero. If not for the fact that it was almost 8:30 and we needed to drive from her house to my house, we might not have stopped playing. It was very, very tough to do though. If not for an early morning group run in Highlands Ranch, I would have suggested staying the night at her place so that we could keep playing Guitar Hero.

The next day, we discussed the need for "rules" about playing Guitar Hero. We both agreed that rules are needed or else neither of us will ever be productive again. We agreed to these rules:

1. No playing Guitar Hero before work;
2. No playing Guitar Hero before a workout;
3. No playing Guitar Hero before dinner;
4. No playing Guitar Hero after 9:00 pm; and
5. No playing Guitar Hero before getting dressed on a weekend.

I'm sure other rules will be needed as we continue our dangerous flirtation with Guitar Hero.