The other day Kelly showed us some old home video he had on his computer from one of Kari's birthday parties when we were living in Morrison CO. Kari got one of those big 8balls that could "predict the future". You would ask it a question and then turn the ball over and an answer would display. In the video--which is super funny--Kelly grabs it and asks, "am I going to be famous?" Then Kari asks, "am I going to be a superstar?" Kari used to always tell us that she was going to marry a rich pineapple farmer from Hawaii and live the sweet life (sorry Aaron). Obviously those dreams rarely play out and that's probably good. Sometimes, though, I like to think about what my youth self would think of my current life. I'm not exactly sure what I expected. Maybe to be a rockstar trombonist. (btw, that picture would make a great desktop picture (: ) At any rate I'm pretty sure if someone told me that I was going to be a dentist I would have been pretty bummed out. Working in mouths isn't that glamorous. Still, there is at least one thing about my current life that I would have been really excited about.
Nintendo emulator for personal computers. I couldn't have ever imagined that I would one day have nintendo and supernintendo on my computer, with every game at my fingertips. A few days ago, while I was flying home from California, I played nintendo games the whole time. You can even save your game and restart later. Kelly and I played a season of tecmo superbowl, by playing a game and emailing the saved version back and forth. Kelly won, back in the day I would have beat him up, but he's too big now, so I just pretended not to care.Back when I was first learning Super Mario Bros. I would make Kelly and Kenny hide behind the chair while I played the difficult levels because I believed that their presence would mess me up. We were so serious about it that we played until there were indentations in our fingers from the triangles on the buttons. During my flight I got a serious cramp in my finger from using my keyboard as the joystick. It made me happy.
"8ball, am I going to have every nintnedo game ever?" Yes!!!!!!!!!
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I'm glad you got to see that video of you guys with the 8 ball. That was pretty funny wan't it. Wasn't Kenny funny? AM i GOING TO GET REALLY REALLY ANGRY AT THIS 8 BALL? That was so cute I thought. Also I like your memories of ninetindo. I have lots of memories of those days too. Of kids who wouldn't share the ninetindo and getting frustrated or mad when you would not quit when you were told. You might can relate to those parental whoas now.
That video rocks. I have to say we were a bunch of dorks, maybe we still are. I wish I could play excite bike on my computer :(
I wish you had become a rock-star trombone player. That way I could have played in your band, or maybe, carried your cases. Sigh, the lost dreams of a parent.
I heard about the nintendo games being availible for your computer...but I have to say...I'm a purist :) and so I just bought the origional NES system with 30 games for 40 dollars!! We love it and although you can't save games and stuff...it's fun and totally old school. NES rocks my world!! your blog is soo fun!
I thought I was marrying a rock star trombonist. Turns out he's a rock star dentist? I'm cool with that. Kris, did I tell you that somebody at church told me you look like a rock star when you come to church in your colored shirts?
zSNES is awesome. Take a look at MAME for all of the old timey arcade action. There's nothing like a game of The Simpsons when you've got nothing better to do.
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