Have you ever been doing something and doing it so well that everything you're trying to accomplish comes together seamlessly and flawlessly? You're 'in the zone' and that's what happened to me this week when I put up a record breaking score in pinball.
Bells and chimes are the sounds most people associate with pinball. Modern pinball machines may have abandoned those sounds long ago, but now there's a twist to the term Belles & Chimes coming to Portland in the form of a women's pinball league.
Every year, I attend a pinball tournament held in Pittsburgh called Pinburgh that attracts pinball players from all over the world. This year, Pinburgh had grown so large that they moved it to a convention center and turned it into a pinball and video game festival with over 700 classic and modern games. If you love video games, you'd love the Replay FX Arcade and Gaming Festival.
I swear Ed Robertson of The Barenaked Ladies is just like me except for the fact that he has a lot more talent, can sing, play instruments, is very successful and...okay he's nothing like me except he like's pinball!
Pinball is just a game right? Yeah it is, but people like me who play it competitively sometimes forget that it's just a game. I've been known the throw a few expletives when I drain the ball, but this guy wins at losing.
If you listen to the Q Morning Show then you know I play pinball competitively and it's one of my greatest loves. I'm also a big fan of The Walking Dead. You can imagine what happens when two of my great loves come together. Nerdgasm!
Over 400 pinball machines are switched on this weekend for PAPA 17, the World Pinball Championship in Carnegie Pennsylvania just outside of Pittsburgh and I'm not there.