Rock Band and Ben Gay

I got a very excited call from Annie today. The poker gang and a few others had gotten together for a birthday party for Laura Jo and they were playing Rock Band on Sharon and Victoria's Wii, which I think they just got last night (RB, not the Wii). Annie was asking me how to bring everyone into the game, which, since they didn't have RB for the Wii when I had it, I couldn't help much with, but had a lovely chat with Annie when she left the room and we could both hear. 

By the time she joined the party again, there was whooping and hollering and laughing, and it sounded like they were having a great time. I wish I could have been there with them. I let Annie go so she could have her time in the mix. I called her back a little while later just to see how it was going and to give a tip or two, and it sounded like they were figuring out things pretty well. It might have gone smoother with me there, but I was the one losing out more than them without me.

Since they were playing Rock Band, I decided to break out RB, too, sorta to join the party. I hadn't really gotten very far in Hard, so I knew I had a lot of work to do. But, surprisingly, all the work I had done in Guitar Hero has paid off and I went right through most of the songs and got in the songs I really prefer playing. There were a few that I had to play a few times, but mostly I made it on the first time, and if I had played it before, I bettered my score. In fact, I had at least one five star song. 

Here's where the Ben Gay comes in... well, Icy Hot to be exact, but the smell the same. I played literally all day, and my hands just get to aching and it makes me slow, and actually my brain gets slow, too, but I don't want to stop, so I've discovered that if I take my pain pills, then a little while later use some Icy Hot, I can keep playing for a while longer. It's actually my mind wandering that signals that I have to stop. I'll play til my hands cramp, but if my mind keeps wandering then I just make too many mistakes.

I had a great time, and it was so much fun playing the Hard songs, cause there is so much more style and flair in the songs, but there are definitely songs I have to take into practice mode, and I can't wait. When I get these solos and hard sections down these songs are going to sound so cool and be so fun to play. 

I told mom that I liked Medium because I didn't have to think, but I'm getting there in Hard, Not quite yet, but it's not the struggle it was. I do think the Ben Gay smell adds a charm all it's own, too.