I have survived this year’s Celebration-fest—which isn’t shocking, since this is the 15th such festival and my life was never actually threatened in any of the previous 14 incarnations of said event. With Lily’s birthday on June 18, Emma’s on June 19th, and Father’s Day on the third Sunday of June, every year we have a trio of celebrations in a row—though some years, one of the Offspring’s Birthday falls on Father’s Day, providing a one-third reduction in the quantity of Celebration Days, with, interestingly, no discernable effect on the quality of said celebrations.
My family, which is a most excellent family, gave me an iPod Touch for Father’s Day. New technology intrigues me and this is no exception. The iPod portion is replacing my old 2nd generation iPod nano, and thus the storage space alone is a huge improvement. The external speaker is also fantastic—it’s nice to be able to use the thing without needing headphones or an external speaker system. The other part of this new gadget is the ability to get all the apps which were popularized by the iPhone. I got the Yahoo! Fantasy baseball app right away, found the Weather Channel app, and threw on the Amazon Kindle app, mostly to see if reading books on a tiny device is interesting or unbelievably annoying. After that, I am faced with about a zillion (give or take a billion) potential features to load onto my gadget. But, which ones do I need? Or want? Or will ever use? It’s like a new world opening up and I have don’t have any idea what I want to do in this new world.
I think I am going to get the app which replicates the old hand-held football game I had when I was a kid—you know the one with the moving lines and you move your line past all those other lines. I spent hours (undoubtedly well over a thousand hours—I kid you not) playing that game as a kid. I guess spending 99 cents to relive my misspent youth might not be a bad thing to do.
On Saturday, Janet and I drove up to South Woodstock, VT to see Emma ride in a Dressage Competition. Dressage is called a “sport,” but it is really just a beauty contest for horses and riders. Emma had fun, which is the only thing about which I cared. I told Emma that the Dressage Competitions should include a jousting portion—that would make it into something resembling an actual sport—but Emma did not seem to think my suggestion was worth relaying to the Powers That Be.
Very funny; at Dufresne's on Sat. there was a big horse show at the same time as Sam's baseball game and I had the exact same reaction. In college I watched my roommate compete and they were quite different- wonder why? (Now jousting, on the other hand, is quite cool to watch. We caught that at the Renaissance Fair a couple years ago:)
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