One thing I like to do in my very rare spare time is play on my Nintendo Wii. The games are great but sometimes you just get too tired to stand up and keep waving your arms around. I know Nintendo wanted to
develop a gaming console that made you burn calories while you played, instead of sitting on the couch
stuffing your face with pizza and coke, but geez, after a hard days slog sometimes thats exactly what i’d like to do. Ok I admit that in the beginning part of the way I justified buying a Wii was that I’d burn calories playing andtherefore not feel so bad about sitting there. The Wii boxing was great for exercise and I found the Wii golf so addictive I often catch myself practising my swing while waiting for a train home from work, and I don’t even play real golf! The bowling is great for socialising with people, it avoids the awkwardness of just two people playing while others sit patiently waiting for their turn,always a conversation killer. Saying that though the Wii Tennis was ok like that. I would like to get a decent size flat screen TV too but with the credit crunch and oncoming global recession I don’t feel to secure in my employment. Maybe at Christmas, yeah right! Thats the thing about video games - they’re not cheap. I tend to trade- in or swap games these days, afterall the only game I haven’t got board of is Guitar Hero, all the other ones hold little attraction once they’ve been completed.

One other good thing I like about the Wii is that it compliments my martial arts training, namely Karate. When I say compliment, what I mean is I think that as your reacting in the game you have to react physically also, to a much higher degree than just pressing buttons on a control pad. So that’s another reason not to feel guilty!