The doctor’s away, Otis will play(ish)

The Tree Doctor chose a particularly inopportune time to have a wedding anniversary.

It’s not like he didn’t know this weekend was the Lake Eden Arts Festival (where we usually are on this weekend every year). It’s not like he didn’t know I couldn’t attend the festival and would be bored as a result. It’s not like he doesn’t know he signed me up for the Upstate Disc Golf Classic. It’s not like his last words to me before he left for San Francisco weren’t, “You owe me fifty bucks” for the entry.

No, he knew all this and still went off on vacation to the west coast and left me here with my bag of discs and a bunch of rain. He knew that I’ve been on the road and am getting rusty. He knows that I’m beyond terrified of playing in a tournament against good players when my ego can barely stand looking at my discs. He knew all this and went off on an anniversary trip anyway. This is the type of thing selfish people do. They leave their self-loathing friends in a lurch.

And so, as the Upstate disc golf courses turn themselves into swamps and all our friends go off to the music festival, I’m stuck wallowing in my own worthlessness.

It’s times like this when someone puts a Wii controller in your hand and says, “Hey! You like disc golf! Try this out.”

And that’s what I did last night.

Much to my surprise, the Wii Sports Resort game has a disc golf game on it. Players can choose between 3, 9, and 18 hole games. And it’s just about as frustrating as the real game, but for different reasons.

Here’s a video of a couple of guys playing.

I played 27 holes last night. Here’s a quick overview.

I played with two different downloaded Mii characters last night. I can confirm that the John Lennon Mii was much better than the Batman’s Joker Mii. The Joker was pretty self-destructive.

In short, if your friend sticks you with a dead weekend and the rain keeps you from playing solo, Wii Sports Resort Disc Golf is an entertaining way to kill an hour or two.

But don’t expect it to serve as practice for the Upstate Disc Golf Classic.