n the days before laptops, controllers, game pads, or
video games for me pretty joysticks.
much reached the apex in
the Space Invaders/Asteroids era, When I first got started on
and I never played them at home. laptops, Tetris was all the rage.
I played them in bars, where it I tried it a few times, but soon
was a good way a) to kill time lost interest. Then along came
and b) avoid being stinking drunk Solitaire. Vegas Solitaire. Vegas
by only 9:30pm. Idle hands are 3-Card Solitaire!
the devil's workshop, especially
if one of them is constantly I was hooked. My co-workers and I
wrapped around a twelve-ounce set up marathon games on the
Budweiser. single laptop in our workspace,
going for days without rebooting.
Of course, once one outgrows the Woe unto him who wiped out our
bar scene which I plan to do any steadily increasing winnings. We
day now many of the things didn't care if it wasn't real
associated with it begin to lose money. It was the thrill of the
their luster as well. I can't thing.
shoot pool nearly as well as I
used to, not that I was any sort Then the world changed. I bought
of Mosconi Fats to begin with, my first personal laptop. I
but that is not the point. landed a new job where, for the
most part, I was working alone.
But I am totally lost in today's The camaraderie that made
laptop gaming world. Nor do I own marathon games of Vegas 3-Card
an X-Box, Playstation, or Wii Solitaire so enjoyable was no
(which looks to me like a longer there. My gaming days, it
misspelled abbreviation of World seems, were finally at an end.
War II). I know nothing of
Then somebody showed me how to an OC thing, and I ain't talking
play Freecell. Orange County. The idea was to
line up all my cards on my laptop
I became a man obsessed. At screen in neat little rows, Kings
first, the object was to win. on top, deuces on bottom, side by
Every loss was personal, every side, until clicking that last
victory a reason for celebration. little card preferably the 48th
My winning percentage climbed releasing the aces and sending
into the 70-80 percent range, the whole deck skittering to the
then into the 90s. top as I basked in the beauty of
it all :Freecell Master of The
But it wasn't enough. Winning was Universe.
no longer the only thing. I
wanted to win PRETTY. It became
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