I did it! What nonsense have you done that you're proud of?

Ok, I am embarrassed, but I did it!!!!!



I sort of don't DO computer games (except my lovely flight simulator which my computer is too wussy and under endowed to run, so I can't do that until it is time to get another computer......dammit....but I digress....)

But...(you knew there was gonna be a but, didn't you?)...I have been ensnared by this dumb game called Luxor.


It is all dressed up in Egyptian kitsch, and has pretty balls which make a satisfyingly loud rolling noise, which you have to make disappear by shooting them with same coloured balls, before they disappear into a pyramid. As you get up the Luxor tree, the balls get more dramatic in colour.....I have reached where you get some gold ones, and am hanging out for the black. It is all accompanied by very dramatic, portentous music...and there are weird noises as well when you hit a lot of balls.



Quite why a pyramid wishes to swallow balls is beyond me.


Anyhoo, I have been stymied by the devilish Level 8, part 4, for some time.


And, each time part 4 defeats you, you are bounced right back to the beginning of Level 8, and have to do the three boring bits to have a go at part 4 again.


Look, I am not proud, but the damn thing has obsessed me. I had to beat it.



I DID!!!


Such a sense of accomplishment over a dumb game. You'd think I cured AIDS and ended global poverty.


What IS this weird joy?


And what dumb stuff have you been able to do which gave you far more pleasure than it rationally ought to?