pay per view and GH battles

   Earlier this week, mom very off handedly mentioned that the upcoming wrestling pay per view (which was today) looked like a good one, and might there be anyway we could see it? It was really cute. So I ordered it right away and set up the DVR to record. She's been pretty excited about it, too. She thought it was on yesterday, no, not yet - and today we both woke up really late and just lollygagged waiting for time to pass. I finally put in the Mama Mia! cd to pass the time, which it did perfectly. By the time for the show to start the cd was just finishing.

   I had mentioned to Josh that I had ordered it. He doesn't watch wrestling much anymore, but has an amazing amount of inside information about who's doing what and what really happened to who and the real story behind so and so. I wish I knew who his source was. Anyway, he called and said he was coming over about half way through the show, with a new subwoofer. Mine has been cutting in and out. The one he hooked up is really amazing. What a difference. But I digress.

   He came right in the middle of the first of the matches that he really wanted to see, so we backed it up and watched it from the beginning of the match again, then watched it to the end. It was a really good show, good matches. I enjoyed it, and I think mom did too, but you can never tell with Josh. As soon as it was done, Josh hooked up the sub and asked if he could play the 360. He asked if I had another guitar and I could only think of the Rock Band Fender, which won't work with GH, so he played by himself for a while.

   Then, duh, it occurred to me that I had just replaced my old faithful with the Aerosmith guitar and we could have battles, so while he was fiddling with the settings on the sub, I put some new batteries in the Korn guitar and we started battling. Man, that is so much fun, even more fun in person. 

   We handicapped it this time. Josh played some songs that I really knew well in hard, so he had a little bit more of a chance, but the songs he he knew well, he played in expert. I know that doesn't sound exactly fair, but I beat him enough to know it is a system that evens it out. I've played all these songs a lot more than he has, and that evens out his way ginormous skill a little.

   There is a little built in disadvantage toward the higher rated player when it comes to a tie and a death match. The higher rated player tends to lose faster and the favor is given to the lower rated player. Alex got into this one and they played against each other to try to prove it, and then Alex and I played against each other (I actually can't remember who won - I guess that means Alex), and they played each other again.

   It was a really fun evening. I had a blast and it was so much fun having them over. I had a thought after they left. I was playing after mom went to bed. I wasn't done yet. It's my way of clearing my mind and settling myself down. I played my song, The Cliffs of Dover, sitting down, and did so so, then decided to stand up, (don't remember what made me think of it) and beat my highest ever score. Hmmm, interesting. I tried one more song standing up, The Devil Went Down To Georgia, got another highest score ever, but not another star (still at three), but that was enough. That song kills my forearms. 

   I had a thought that I gave mom to ponder on. You can co op a band in Guitar Hero. Start one, cause you can obviously play bass - I was doing it last night. Mom has been watching me every night. I think she might enjoy playing bass on easy while I play on medium. I played bass on medium and it's no more difficult that starting on easy, if not easier. I think she can handle it, and there's no big deal anyway - it's just the two of us here. She's seen Josh and I both fail. She loves the bass, the sound of it is her favorite part of a song. I think this will be fun for her. We'll see tomorrow.