From the Mouth of Babes, etc.
Mago tends to like old-style “chiptune” Nintendo music. This is pleasing to his father. I played for him my mp3 album ripped from the game Legacy of the Wizard - explaining to him that this title more or less means “remember the wizard” - whatever that is supposed to mean, ha! - and he liked it. Here’s an exemplary track to accompany your blog reading.
(download .mp3, ~1.2 MB)
I also explained to Mago that this is from a game I played as a kid. On the same drive (this was all quite a while ago - but every now and then he’ll ask me to play it again) a song from my collection came on entitled ShadowFire -
(download .mp3, ~2.2 MB)
- a Commodore 64 tune I found and burned. After he learned this was from a game I hadn’t played, Mago said:
I played ShadowFire! when I was a kid.
- which he reminds me every time the song is played. On a different occasion while I was playing with him before bed, he said:
Daddy, I want to come live with you at work.
Whoops.
There’s a wall in the bathroom without an if-I-knew-the-name-of-it-it-would-probably-be-there thing that would keep water from spilling into the wall, and spiders from coming out of the wall - though we haven’t seen but very few spiders (as opposed to dozens) since politely asking them to find somewhere else to live - if you have faith, this works! - but by those spiders he has seen coming out from under that wall, he has dubbed it “The bug wall”.
Nem-nem has started waving “hello.”