The Gray Gamers

Between awesome weather and some games we got for our birthday, there hasn’t been much chatter here because we’ve been happily distracted elsewhere.

We have a cluster of family and friend birthdays that we tend to get together for. One party covers all.

This year Jan was off at a board meeting and wound up in hospital so the partying was set aside for a few weeks.

She’s fine and we got together to make up for lost time.  Party means play time, be it giving a everyone a PC game or a Wii game, getting lots of finger food together and making a day of it on the Wii.

Friends gave me Deal or No Deal for the Wii. I didn’t know what it was, I don’t watch game shows.   I don’t know if I’d enjoy it as a single player game, but as a party game, it’s a hoot. Your mii  gets to be a contestant or the banker and there are a bunch of mini games we didn’t get an opportunity to explore. We’ll have to have another party soon. It’s hard to blog about playing when you are, er, playing.

The Nielson rating company blog says their survey shows more people are playing games since the economic downturn. And they found that more of us are buying used games. 
Well yeah, if you are going to entertain yourself,  the game store used self and the library are a good way to save a few bucks.

We did break down and pre-order a Wii game that is coming out July 26th. hehehe. Can’t wait. As soon as I get my paws on it, I’ll fill you in.

I haven’t put up a new charity of the month. The lure of the outdoors is beating down my altruism.   I think for the summer I’ll claim donor fatigue and kick it back into gear in the fall. I told iWin the next charity would be a California wildfire fund, so that’s what it will be.