September 20, 2010

I know this is no excuse, but I keep forgetting to post to this thing!  Last weekend my son came in from college and I had him set his Beatles Rockband up so we could play and I could see what was so fun about it.  I decided to play the bass - it was the easiest, my son played guitar and my daughter played the drums.  Was it that I love the Beatles and love singing along to their songs?  Was it the fact that I was hanging out with my kids which doesn't happen very often now that they have gotten older?  I don't know which one it was, but it was alot of fun!  Of course, my fingers weren't very nimble and I never had many points, but watching the graphics on screen, singing along, and trying to keep up really was fun.  My son was fantastic at it - he started taking banjo lessons this summer, and says that playing the guitar on rockband has helped him alot with finger placement and agility.  My daugther wasn't the best at the drums, but she enjoyed trying to keep up and we all enjoy belting out Hey Jude - out of tune of course.  I see where this type of game could be alot of fun for families.  It brings them together in a good old fashion way - like back in my days when we used to play board games!

September 2, 2010

Ok, I was reading my fellow classmates blogs and wanted to comment on a couple, but couldn't figure it out!  I really am feeling a little stupid right now.  I wrote my nice long comment and went to submit, but it didn't post and then wanted me to put in facebook account and allow it to repost to my facebook account and on and on and on .........  Technology is not my friend right now - I just get SO frustrated and give up easily - does any one know what I'm talking about and can give me short concise directions on how to comment on someones blog?  I am hoping that by the end of this sememster, technology is my BFF :0)