Merry Christmas to all.
We have gathered at the lake place to spend time together. There were 15 of us for a while and now some have left to spend time with other parents and grandparents. There were presents, plenty of food, and good times.
The new toy for the family this year was an Oculus Quest. I have had only one turn so far, but it appears to be very impressive technology. It is enough to convince me that the VR thing might be for real. One of the activities we downloaded was for me – a travel application. I am not much of a gamer, but I admit the games are intuitive with this hardware.
We have some of the “old” games going as well. We have a “Wii” that still works and a couple of the grandkids will play it for hours. Sid is a mastery of the bowling game. He sometimes scores over 200.
Then there is the other old/new game that I even remember from my youth. They still make those football games that vibrate to propel the players. It takes as long to set up as it does to run a play and some of the plays go in circles. I even read the directions this year. You are supposed to trim the “runners” under the players for different purposes. Untrimmed is for strength (linemen) and cutting the middle out of the the lateral strips underneath the players adds speed. Make a mistake and the player becomes a pure blocker (or you have to send in for a new base).
