video poker
Ugh! My husband has hijacked my our computer. I haven’t blogged for a week because any free moment we have, my husband is on the computer playing video poker. Like everything else in his life, he attacks his new interest with gusto. This is what I love about him, but it also drives me nuts. Biking, fishing, running, hunting for fossils- he gets obsessed and thinks about it all the time. How can poker be that interesting? He watches it on t.v. for gosh sakes. Similar to watching paint dry, but at least the wall is getting painted (hint, hint). But here is the good news. He isn’t using real money. It is all pretend, but he still gets pretty angry when the chips are down. This is our conversation the first couple days. I would get money updates every hour or so (yes he would play for hours). “Jane, I’m up $40,000!!” Me feigning interest, “Honey that’s great!” one hour later “Jane, I’m up 50,000!!” “Wow, that is awesome!” as his children are screaming in the background. (yes my kids scream and I yell - get over it.) two hours later “Jane, I up 72,000!!” Me - “You do realize this is pretend money don’t you???” Okay I’m exaggerating a titch (is that really a word??? Spell check didn’t catch it so I’m using it. Get over yourself Webster’s). When I stopped getting updates I foolishly thought that he had stopped playing. No, he was now losing. This made him grumpy. “I’m getting crappy cards.” This game is free on the internet. I was convinced that after they got you hooked they would introduce a game you could play for actual money. Thank God that hasn’t happened yet. For now I’m going to try and get his attention. I think I’ll dress as a pair of aces tonight. Wish me luck.
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I always secon guess buying my husband a new XBox game because it invariably means I will not get to watch ANYTHING on the big TV for at least two weeks and that I will have to dance naked in front of that same TV if I ever want anything else to get done (”Don’t I look sexy with this bag of trash, baby? You’d look just as sexy actually taking it outside.”).
Best of luck with the aces.
Does he win any money?? If so, tell him to buy you a computer of your own!
I know this sounds a bit pathetic, but I could losing our life savings at the casino or have a drug and alcohol problem. I am a compulsive _________ (fill in the blank), I don’t want to do anything mediocre, therefore I practice to perfection. I think a lot of people have addictions such as diet pepsi (my lovely wife’s favorite), wine, beer, coffee, etc. My addiction right now is video poker, at least until school starts in August then I will be concentrating on other things. We have friends who allow their kids to play hours of Wii or they play Wii with their kids. I know I should be doing many other productive things such as cleaning, painting, remodeling, etc. Teaching is a profession that allows for a lot of recreation, however golf, fly-fishing, and cycling are much too time consuming, therefore I sit at home and play during times when Jane and the boys are doing other things.
Let us know if the aces thing works! I hear you on the shared computer no longer working. Although, over here it is completely my fault. I seem to be spending a lot of time, um, well, blogging, ahem.
I feel you… It’s World of Warcraft here… and Halo… I’m about ready to - I don’t know what I want to do to those games - but it would hurt.