A week and a half or so ago there was a Rock Band contest held on campus. I had played Guitar Hero 2 a little but and I was in a band back in high school so even though I had never played Rock Band I figured I would go and check it out. Well, it turns out that I ended up on the drums and even though I had messed around on our drummers drum set playing drums in Rock Band ain’t the same as playing a real drum set (for one the drum pads that take the place of the cymbals are at the same level as the ones that are supposed to be drums which means that it makes it hard if not downright too hard to bother with to hit the “snare” with your left hand and the “high hat” with your right so you end up doing the snare with your right hand and the high hat with your left). Needless to say we did not win.
This week I had an interview for a teaching fellowship so I went to get a new suit. While I was at it I figured I would go to Radio Shack to pick up some stuff I needed. One of the things I was going to get at the shack was watch batteries. You see, I had got this little key chain sound maker thing out of a gumball-style vending machine and I pressed the button on it and it didn’t make any noise. So I’ve been meaning to get batteries for this thing since I came back from Tokyo so I go to Radio Shack and tell the salesperson I need batteries for it and she looks at it and pulls out this little plastic tab sticking out of the back and it works.
So I’ve had this noise maker thing for something like two and a half months and all I had to do was pull the tab out so the batteries would make contact…