Grandma's Techie Pearls

This week was apparently my week for tech support......I didn't call tech support.......I WAS the tech support.  This is a problem because I'm not all that "techie".  But I'm proud to say that I added another pearl to my strand.  (Just wish I knew how I did it!)

On Monday my husband and I took care of our grandson, 6 yrs old, who had the day off from school.  He has a new Wii game called Skylander.  It's pretty cool with a portal that connects to the game.  You place whatever character you want to be on the portal and on the screen you become that character.  No problem, right?  Just press the button on the remote and "Voila!" it all works!  Ah no, that's not what happened.  We did what any grandma and grandson would do.  We called for grandpa...."He'll be able to figure it out!"  This time even grandpa (after a call to daddy) admitted he didn't know what was wrong.  We moved on to something else for the day......low tech board games and endless rounds of cards and K'nects with time out for a bit of football outside in the yard.  (Grandpa taught him how to do a "head fake after a button hook"....??????)  Okay.......moving on....

The next day Grandpa went to take care of our 7 month old grandson and I stayed to take care of  the 6 yr old plus his cousins (6 and 4).  We made granola bars and hot chocolate and headed downstairs for a game on the Xbox Connect,  great way to work off energy.  I pushed the button on the remote and everything came on just like it's supposed to.  My grandson was exuberant and we cavorted around the room high fiving and whooping, bumping hips and yelling "Yes! Yes! Yes!!". The cousins just watched us with perplexed smiles.   They obviously didn't get the significance of my accomplishment!

Imagine the celebration the next day when I pushed the button and, wonder of all wonders, the Wii came on!  My grandson and I again did the celebratory circuit around the room.  "Grandma!  You did it!  You figured it out!  Great job, Grandma!!"

I have no idea why it worked.  It does raise expectations for next time ......sigh.   I'm going to go with the "shut it off and restart it" trick though.

It's easier to follow pattern directions so I think I'll just sit down and knit!