As I did with my novella experiment (which performed very poorly with the public at-large but quite strongly amongst the highly sought after "DeForest" demographic) I am once again repurposing this blog.
Why? Well, it has much to do with the events of December 7th of last year. On that day, I awoke bright and early at 5:00 A.M. and headed out into a snowstorm on my way down to Quincy, IL. Why did I do this and why am I continuing to ask rhetorical questions? Because at my destination a beautiful, original Donkey Kong machine was waiting for me. I passed many a stranded vehicle and one jack-knifed semi during my travels, but managed to return safely from my 600-mile, 12-hour journey with the cargo safely intact.
And while I was heading back up I-55 with DK in tow, I was also simultaneously officially becoming a Chicago Cubs
So I thought that I would use this blog to chart my experience with these two over the next couple months. I will also throw in some other random thoughts as they occur to me, but these will be the main topics. So if you don't like Donkey Kong and you don't like the Cubs . . . well, I guess you can just go on ignoring this blog like you have for the past 10 months.
Without further ado:
Donkey Kong: Bit of a long story (which I will spare you the minute details of) but I actually am only the temporary custodian of this machine. It will be going to its permanent home at some point, probably in the next 6 months to a year. So time is of the essence! I have no desire to make a run at any of the records (you need over a million points just to crack the top-20) but I would like to make it to the kill screen - which happens on Level 22.
The Cubs: You know the old axiom about the stock market "buy low, sell high"? Well that's what I'm trying to do here. Because it doesn't get much lower than where the Cubs are right now. Losers of 90+ games 4 years in a row (and 101 games in 2012) it is really no surprise that after 8 years my number came up in the Chicago Cubs Season Ticket Wait List. In fact, as I recently found out, the Wait List is no more - they went through every person on it and still have some additional seats available. But it has been a dream of mine to be a Cubs season ticket holder so I'm glad I could make it a reality. My goal for this year is to sell enough of the "premium" games that it doesn't end up costing me an arm and a leg and hopefully the Cubs will surprise everyone and prove to be at least watchable.
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| It's tough to tell, but this is DK loaded into our Mazda5, ready for its voyage to its foster home. |
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| Here it is in all its glory. |
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| Zac, playing his first game (and big kudos to him for helping me get it in and downstairs) |
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| Our respective scores from our first game - not a good score for me but at least not completely embarrassing |
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| Scores from Day 2 - the 4th and 5th place scores demonstrate what happens when you play with kids on your lap. |
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| Starting to get respectable . . . |
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| Well, the score is definitely good but what's going on with the left side of the screen? Hmm . . . more on that next time. |
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