Gaming Wife

Nicole will play games with me. Fun games. Games that both of us can play at the same time. It was part of the wedding vows.

We first played LEGO Star Wars. It was two player co-op and ultimately a test of the strength of our relationship. Two people controlling characters on the same game screen and sharing mutual game goals and game lives. Trying not to yell at each other was half the fun.

She has the genres of games that she likes. I have mine. Occasionally they converge and we experience a co-existence in the living room. I'm not saying we spend a lot of time apart, but my hobby is one that tends to lean toward a solitude that even some life-long sailors would respect. The language alone would make them blush.

Tonight Nicole has gotten bit by my latest gaming bug that involves an Xbox Live Achievement and me driving all 1000 miles of road of a polygonal representation of the island of Oahu to get it. It's something I've been working on for almost a year off and on and I'm finally at 98%. Keep in mind that driving games are not one of those genres we share in common, so when I threw her the controller and she picked it up with moderate interest, I was surprised.

But her ability to become obsessed with trivial things is something that brought us together. She can dive deeper into a subject than I can most times. I imagine that's what makes her a good editor.

But tonight, we won't sleep until all the roads have been covered. Something I like to think bleeds into our real life in some form or another.

I think she just cussed at the police car.