...when you’ve gotten your first pin. And after a couple of months or so you’ve messed around with it enough to get a sense of how the settings and leveling affect the game play, and you’ve replaced the rubbers, flippers and whatever else you think needs replacing and adjusted things so that the game is playing just how you think it should be. You’re already pretty good at the game at this point just from messing around with it for a couple months, but it takes a while to get used to how it plays when you’ve got everything just right- it’s amost like learning a whole new game. But then, you start to really feel it. You aren’t getting to wizard modes yet but you’re very comfortable with all the shots, even the tight ones, and you’re playing this game on a totally different level than you could ever play any game on location. And it’s your game, you picked it out, you decided how it should play, etc.

That’s exactly where I’m at right now. I just got in bed but you know what I’m gonna run down and play a couple more games of DH first...