There are two main reasons I've been remiss in writing: 1) I've been busy at work (district technology plan being written). 2) I've been busy at home (kids finishing up marching band season). When I'm busy either place I find it pretty difficult to find time to write. When I'm busy BOTH places it's pretty much impossible. This last week it would have been almost impossible to write.
But if I HAD written, here are some of the things I MIGHT have said:
- Rick Perry: Pack it up, man. You're done!
- National Champs: Speaking of marching band, my kids' marching band won the national Class A marching band championship this past weekend! Awesome!
- Cell Phone Withdrawal: I was reminded this weekend of how much I'm attached to my smart phone. Its battery died during said marching band championship (apparent cause: an app that wigged out and drained the battery), and a number of times I wanted to post an update to Facebook to keep family and friends up to date about the competition, or to post a picture or something, and I couldn't. But more than that, I found myself, during awkward moments, reaching for the phone to check to see if I had an email, and I realized it had become a crutch. When I first got contact lenses and lost my glasses, I found myself for weeks reaching up to my face to adjust the glasses that were no longer there. I had that same feeling with my dead smart phone. I'd reach for it, get it halfway out of my pocket and think, "What am I doing?"
- Colts Stadium: The marching band competition was in the Indianapolis Colts stadium, and as a prop parent I got to go down into the bowels of the stadium several times. While in there I got to see the press room, the coaches room, a classroom (where presumably the Colts learned how to lose), and a group of referees reviewing for the game the next day.
- Quick Turnaround: Speaking of that, the marching band competition ended after midnight Saturday night / Sunday morning, and there was a home football game at 1 PM that next day. I was amazed at the amount of work that had to be done to flip that stadium to get it ready for a game in 12 hours. There must have been an army of workers who started as soon as the band thing was over and worked through the night.
- Enjoying the Moment: One of the things that I'd say I haven't always done a good job of in my life is enjoying the moment. I made a conscious effort during the marching band competition to do just that. My daughters got to compete on the Colts' field three times, twice in competition and once just in exhibition as the winning Class A band. The first two times I hustled my props onto the field, and then sprinted off the field quickly, and once the performance was over I hustled back onto the field and quickly pulled and pushed the props off the field (The band has 15 minutes from the time we're told "Go!" until the last prop or instrument or band member has to be off the field) and didn't really get a feel for the moment. It was a whirlwind. That final performance, though, when there was nothing really on the line, I took my props out, got them set, and then turned around to face the audience in the stands at Lucas Field, and I soaked in the sight of seeing the filled stands from the field. I'd seen the reverse (a field from a packed stand) many times before, but I'd never really seen it from that point of view, and I stood and enjoyed the view for what felt like a very long time (It was probably about 4 seconds) before sprinting off the field to watch my daughters perform one more time.
- Kindle Fire: My Kindle Fire is shipping tomorrow, and I'm so excited! I'm like a little kid. I can't think of a time when I was looking this forward to getting what basically is a toy for me. Maybe when I picked up our Nintendo Wii when it first came out. But I hadn't PLANNED to buy that. It was back when you couldn't find the darned things ANYWHERE and everyone wanted one, and I just wandered into a Target and saw two sitting on a shelf. I bought it, and the clerk said to me, "Who told you?" When I asked him what he meant, he said, "These only arrived about 10 minutes ago. We got 30 of them and they're gone already. Somebody leaked that they were here." I assured him that I hadn't known; I'd just stumbled upon them. He said I was a pretty lucky bastard and gave me the device. That's not the same, though, as waiting for the Kindle Fire.
- Kindle Fire II: Okay, that last paragraph ended up not being about the Kindle Fire but about the Nintendo Wii. Maybe I could go back and edit the paragraph and cut that out, but I'm in rapid fire, non edit mode and I'm not going to do that, so I thought I'd just make a second bullet about the Kindle Fire and take it from there. So here it is. Uh...
- Kindle Fire III: Okay, that last paragraph ended up not being about the Kindle Fire but about why the first paragraph wasn't about the Kindle Fire. This one really IS going to be about the Kindle Fire. All I wanted to say about it was that I'll write a review of it once I get it. I'm too cheap to pay for standard or overnight shipping. Instead I got the free Super Saver shipping, so I'll probably receive it sometime in March, but once I receive it I'll write the review.
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