Two or three
years ago Beavis got an X-Box with the Kinect feature. The games respond to
players as they move, without the need for controllers. Soon the whole family was running and jumping
in place, bowling without a ball and dancing like a bunch of weirdoes while
avatars on the screen reproduce the actions.
Watching the players was even more fun than participating.
Then there was
the night we had extra kids in the basement and they were going through a
decathlon. The whole event came to a halt during the javelin throw. During her toss, one granddaughter’s hand
clipped the light fixture on the ceiling and it came crashing to the floor. Fortunately no one was hurt although the
games were brought to a standstill while the glass was cleaned up.
The reason this
is important is because we decided to just remove the ceiling fixture instead
of replacing it since this wasn’t the first time it had been damaged by too
much energy.
Soon there was a
hole in the ceiling and then plaster and paint, but the paint didn’t
match.
The reason this
is important is because after we painted the window frames in the kitchen there
was a lot of left-over paint.
So we went
through all the hassle of pulling things off the family room walls, moving
furniture, draping drop cloths and so forth.
We found antique food chunks, odd toys, coins, and a bug trap filled to
the edges with dead hobo spider carcasses. Yikes!
Of course we ran
out of paint before we ran out of wall, resulting in another trip to the store
for more paint, plus more rollers and brushes.
When the guys
finally put everything back together the room was much brighter…
…the smoke from
the fireplace was gone from the walls and the man cave was rearranged and back in business.
