Wii are the champions

Our household recently entered the modern age of gaming consoles.  For Christmas, Santa brought us a Wii.  Or maybe Gimpy bought it for us, my memory is a bit hazy.  Either way, my goddam arms feel as they they've been ripped from my body and used to beat the remainder of me.

And it is SO damn fun.

It's been at least 25 years since I've really been into a gaming console.  Not since the heady days of my youth, when I'd spend an entire day locked in on Atari Missle Command, striving for the holy grail - rolling it over at 999,999.  That only resulted in a lost day of my life and a flat ass. The Wii extracts a higher cost.

Seriously, I think I've injured my rotator cuff at least twice on baseball.  The batting isn't bad, but the pitching will kill you.  I might be able to take it if I were still on the low side of 30, but I'm already at retirement age for a professional pitcher.

But I keep going back for more, because it's so addicting.  It's like digital heroin.

We've gotten a few of the bigger titles, which are fun, but we keep going back to Tennis (hello, Pong).  With four controllers, all of us can get into the mix, but there's more risk for injury there.  We have a fairly small den, so four yahoos swinging wildly at thin air is a recipe for injury.  Poe has taken a controller square to the back of the head, and I have nearly lost my left hand.  Mama was the culprit both times.  Watch out for that woman - she's got a wicked swing.

There's also the Fitness program (not to be confused with Wii Fit) which scores you on a battery of three ever-changing tests to determine your "age".  My first time out resulted in an utterly deflating age of 66.  I quickly improved though and can now boast a score of 20 while rubbing on the old Flexall 454 afterward.

Seriously, if you're at all into playing games, but aren't keen on the idea of becoming (or remaining) a couch potato - get a Wii.  It'll keep you moving.  Probably to the hospital.