Tag: ‘electricity’ · TangleBones

Morning Celebration

Jared has been play­ing the “Jimmy Neu­tron: Boy Genius” game on his PC lately, and the level that has always stopped him is the power plant. You have to run through a power plant full of toxic waste and turn off a bunch of switches and nav­i­gate obsta­cles by toss­ing base­balls and swing­ing on a grap­pling hook. No matter what he did, he couldn’t get past a door­way that was blocked by an broken power line that kept shock­ing him.

This morn­ing Jared let me help him, and I don’t know if it was dumb luck, or my clever strat­egy of hug­ging the wall and jump­ing spas­ti­cally, but we got around it for the first time. Jared fought through the rest of the level and com­pleted it in one attempt. As soon as he real­ized he has won, Jared started jump­ing up and down yelling, “I did it!  I did it!  All by myself!”

I asked him, “Didn’t I help with the electricity?”

Jared smiled at me, gave me a high five and said, “That’s what best friends are for.”

Best Sat­ur­day morn­ing ever.

Glowing Apple keyboard

Pho­tographed by Arkku

Yeah, I need one of these. Too bad I’ve already used up my yearly ration of luck with elec­tric­ity installing a light fixture.