Well, this game is very meaningful to me because it represents my entire photography career.
Everytime I would do some work on the computer I would have Microsoft's Solitaire opened.
For those who see me on Xbox Live it may appear as if I was playing the whole time, but a lot of time I was just working.
However I would play here and there, and slowly level up. Leveling up is something new they introduced until fairly recently, probably last year.
I have to mention that I cannot play any other theme other than the beach theme. If it is not the beach theme, it is not Solitaire.
That's a theme Solitaire has have since probably Windows 3.1 before Windows 95. I could be wrong. At some point I knew those, and MS-DOS too, from school, but I'm not sure if it was there.
Although I remember playing it on my Windows 98 computer my uncle gave me when I was a kid. I used to play a lot of Mario Typing on that computer as well, very nostalgic indeed.
That computer was soon replaced by one with Windows Millennium, and then one with Windows XP which is probably the computer I had for the longest time.
My computer with Windows Vista broke right away, but good thing Windows 7 came out, and fixed everything wrong there. I regret it when I upgraded to Windows 8, but Windows 10 has been fine so far.
Looking back at my computer history, the one thing it had in common was Microsoft's Solitaire, Klondike as they call it now.
Obviously the game is 10 out of 10, it is said that games like this and Sudoku can even delay Alzheimer. My grandma from my father's side passed away last year from Alzheimer at age 93, so having games like this can even be considered a healthy thing too.
During the pandemic I tried to reorganize everything I have worked on during the years, and by doing that I also reached level 100, which is a great milestone in the game.
I remember playing on Medium and taking 20 minutes to complete anything, but soon I moved to Hard, then to Expert, and now I can do Master decks in 3 minutes.
I still suck at Grand Master, but I feel happy with my level. I always draw 3, I cannot play any other way. I'm actually level 116 now because I kept going after that.
The significance of these milestones is big because my life is changing a lot in 2020. I cannot longer do what I do and survive. I even had plans of buying a house this year, but I'm basically starting from scratch again.
I managed to get my license as an insurance agent here in California, a complete different field I never thought I would end up in, and I signed up for classes to go back to College on Autumn.
Doing all of this in a very short period of time, it feels like I'm reinventing myself, and it is a strange thing, but I'm still the same guy, I will still do photography whenever I can, but it will be on the side, and on the side I will also keep on playing Microsoft's Solitaire.
