I don’t typically think of myself as a gamer. I think of myself as the wife of a gamer. Someone who bakes Pac Man cupcakes in support of her husband’s 24 hour Extra Life marathon. Who makes a pixel wedding quilt for her Bethesda-employed brother-in-law.
Tag: video games
Adam marathoned like a champ. And has now been asleep for most of the day.
Kathy grabbed this screen shot of us when I joined in from 1-3pm for Guitar Hero and Lego Rock Band. My throat is still sore from all that singing!
It’s that time of year again.
Adam will be doing his 24 Games in 24 Hours video game marathon on October 16th. Last year he raised nearly $1000 for Texas Children’s Hospital, and I’m so excited because this year Extra Life has partnered with Children’s Miracle Network. And you can designate the CMN hospital that gets your raised money, so Adam’s donating to the Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ.
At the beginning of the school year I started a new reward program in the library. Inspired by XBox 360 Achievements, students have been “unlocking” library achievements all year. They earned points (written on funky patterned badges cut out from scrapbooking paper) for lining up perfectly, coming in 1st, 2nd, or 3rd in any of our library games, cleaning up without being asked twice, showing me their library bookmark from the beginning of the year, etc.
I recorded just the first 5 minutes of Wil Wheaton’s speech at PAX East in Boston last weekend. He gave a great speech, even if I only understood a handful of the references. He really inspired the crowd.
Day 3 is really just heading home. It’s about 5pm, and I’m sitting on the Bolt Bus back to New York.
I finished my blog post last night before we went to dinner. So here are my last highlights from Boston.
Today was a good day, but man is it cold here in Boston. I wish I had my winter coat, but all I packed was my rain coat.
We took the T over to Cambridge this morning so Adam could go to a Microsoft event with Major Nelson. While he was there, I walked around MIT in the cold. It was actually snowing when we woke up.
We’re heading to Boston for PAX East (Penny Arcade Expo for the East Coast)! We went to PAX in Seattle last September and had a great time. Really, I wandered around the convention floor for a couple of hours and then flitted around Seattle the rest of the time. So I can’t say I was actually at PAX. But Adam assures me it was excellent.
I’m pretty excited about these. Late night cupcakes while Adam is mid-marathon. Actually, he’s more than halfway through. But I promised I would bake him something, and after dinner I baked and decorated these Pac Man cupcakes. I’m especially proud of the cherries, complete with white frosting highlights. I made 4 different colors of frosting, not counting the base white and chocolate. 
Then I had to make a milk run because we were out. Our 24 hour convenience store around the corner apparently closes at 11pm, so I made it in with just a few minutes to spare. The frosting is the vanilla flavor I made for the book club cake, the chocolate used for eyes is store bought.The cake recipe is the Dark Chocolate Sheet Cake recipe from America’s Test Kitchen Family Baking Book. I’ve posted so many cake recipes lately, this one I just want to enjoy looking at. So no recipe tonight.