haven't written since Jeff was a pup

Have you ever played Guitar Hero? I am not a video game girl. I actually hate video games. I don't get the appeal at all (except, when I think back on it, I did really love my hand-held yellow arcade-style PacMan game from fourth grade...but, see, I was in fourth grade!). But my 2 coworkers are really into Guitar Hero, and they talk about it all the time. "You have to try it," they said. "I will suck at it," I said (due to being grouchy, which I was from Monday morning through Friday at around 9:00). "It's fun," they said. So to kill time before a board meeting on Monday, we went to R's house and busted out the two plastic "guitars." They played a few songs together, then handed a guitar to me. I wasn't really expecting to like any of the songs, but dude! I warmed up with Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight, and that was exciting, even though my much-younger colleagues didn't know about Spinal Tap. I then moved on to a super smoking hot take on Sweet Child o'Mine (also a preferred karaoke number for me). But it was War Pigs that got me standing up and rocking OUT. My colleagues got to see a new side of me. I don't think they ever expected to hear me say, let alone sing, the words, "Satan, laughing, spreads his wings," especially not with such passion. But now they know about me.

The thing I still don't get is that each of them has spent dozens of hours on this game, yet neither is any closer to knowing how to play an actual guitar...