Excuse me?

I have a feeling that some people are trying to make me look bad. Well, as you all pretty much know, I have an explanation for everything (or can come up with an excuse that sounds legit though I have no idea what I am talking about).

Megan keeps talking about how well the kids can play her penny flute. And then I got jealous, so yes, I spent a good hour researching the interwebs to learn how to do it. Who knows? Maybe some day I can play it in church. I'm that good now.

Then a couple of weeks ago Megan was frustrated that I have a lot of stuff that takes up closet space, which is pretty limited in our house. Then the inevitable happened; I realized that the untouched boxes and boxes of Atari games and decomposing 8-tracks need to find a new home.

Well, depending on who you are and how you came to own nearly 150 Atari games, you can't just give those away. I mean, I spent hundreds of weekends in high school scouring all the DI's and occasional yard sales to gather as many Atari games as I could. I fought tooth and nail to buy at lower prices and I am pretty sure that during the economic slow down of 1998-99 my Atari/8-track funds single-handedly kept the struggling Centerville DI in business, which was then able to get a really nice face-lift a couple years later.

That being said, the only reason I was playing the Atari games was to make sure they work before I try to sell them. You have to understand, there is only so much I can write about dirt. I mean, we all know that it is usually black or some odd-shade of brown and it can smell bad or good and we shouldn't eat it. Can't I just make a thesis that says that? I guess not.

So I did a lot of research and am trying to sell some of the games. There's not much of an audience or market for selling 1980's video games, but who knows? The clothes seem to be coming back into style which is a good thing. Check this side story out: So I was at work when Megan called me to tell me I had to thin out my closet. I told a 35+ year-old co-worker about some of the fun junk I had and he told me that I just needed to get it out once a year so that Megan could see that I was still interested in it. He then commenced to tell me that he does that with his old high school clothes or his wife will throw them out. And sometimes he has to pull them out of the DI pile. Well, I will be the first witness to testify that she should get rid of those clothes in a more definite manner and that he wears them more like once a week than once a year. We had a fun time this winter placing bets on how outrageous his sweaters would be day to day.

Anyway. If anyone wants atari games, see some of what I have at KSL.com in the classifieds. Just search "atari". I think there's still some time to play some of the games too. Come on over, we'll have a blast!! Maybe we can get out the projector and play them on the big screen!!