So apparently there are oyster cults? I mean sure, there was Blue Oyster Cult, and more cowbell. But apparently there's such a thing as an oyster cult, where people worship pearls or something like that. This is what we gathered from reading the big finish to tonight's "The Thirteenth Pearl." Nancy Drew once again solved the case, Mr. Moto is rescued, and everyone is happy again. It was a fun read, as are all these books, and clearly not the last ones we'll be reading. Tomorrow, we'll start a new one, and that's a surprise for Madison. I just have to go over to the library to pick it up!
'Tis the season for a filling calendar! We have Easter, St. Patrick's Day and Spring Break looming, plus ballet performances and filming for Summer Xtreme. All the while, there's writing and more. Daddy and Mommy came up with an idea to have Madison in the skit on Sunday, which is something she is really wanting to be a part of. Daddy just needs to write it out, but more than likely that will appear here. Sunday afterwards, there's ballet production practice. In fact, there's practice all day. Daddy has to go to a Kids Day Out roller skating event for KidPak this weekend, while Madison is dancing to "Frozen" again. Madison practices more on Sunday after KidPak, and starts off "tech week," which is going to be an interesting week for all of us. Lots going on!
Madison already has a good handle on her vocabulary words for the week. One of the words is "telethon," which goes with "telephoto," "telescope," "telemarket," and "televise." The telethon word brought out a pretty big conversation this morning about what a telethon is, exactly. Isn't it amazing that if you're of a certain age, when I say "telethon," you think "Jerry Lewis"?
Anyway, the words seem to be good in her mind currently, so she'll probably be doing well on the test on Friday. In the meantime, she's been assigned this electrical project to create - we'll be doing a bit of thinking on that one, because maybe we can make something fun there.
Also, today was her "Live to Give" session after school, where the kids were making gift bags for new students that are transferred in, some "welcome bags" that all the parents went out and got stuff for. We bought some candy last week to send in, and these were just part of the loot that went into these bags. Madison and others were stuffing these bags after school, getting them ready for new students.
She had piano today, which is going fine. She can play "Greensleeves," which is allegedly written by King Henry VIII, which is another reason to not like this song. Seriously, it drags on and on. And it has Christmas lyrics to become "What Child is This," which make it slightly better, because Christmas makes things slightly better. But Daddy's not a big fan of the song. Nevertheless, Madison is playing it well, a somewhat more complicated song to play than you'd think.
Madison had "media" today, which means a trip to the school library. She was excited to pick up a copy of "Dolphin Tale 2," which suddenly is on her mind again. She wants to watch both the movies again. We'll do that, although tonight was a little tight on time with the piano class. She actually did her math homework in the car on the way there. Getting home, we had just enough time for playing some Darkstalkers, this after the increasingly and amazingly frustrating "Epic Mickey 2," which I think we've given up on at this point. As much as we want to like it for the steampunk elements, the basic gameplay is just too frustrating to actually enjoy. Daddy was okay, but Madison was having a hard time with it.
This brings up one of the most important rules of video games: if you're that mad or frustrated about a game, it's not worth it. If you're screaming at the screen, it's not worth it. In this case, we both were pretty frustrated. I remember back in the 90's, how I was a "completionist" with games, wanting to get every achievement and every item available for games, to have it completely done. There was a video game company called "Rare" that cured me of that. Although I was doing well with "Goldeneye" and "Donkey Kong 64," there was this one last honeycomb in a game called "Banjo Kazooie." I remember vividly the day I looked at it, and what I had to do to earn it, and just imagined all the yelling and screaming I would be doing at the screen. Because earning that honeycomb would take a lot of frustrating effort, and repeating the same thing over and over again, hoping to get lucky, getting so close and falling short, time and again... was it worth it? No. Epic moment. Ever since then, I've been cured. And hopefully you will be too. It's just not worth all this stress and effort to get a honeycomb on a screen. Or whatever it may be!
Anyway, thus concludes today's lesson! And now, it's off to sleep, but before that, a few items on the market: a CD and a mattress or waterbed.
Tonight, I just ordered yet another new TMBG release. That's Daddy's favorite band for many years now, and they've just released a new CD called, "I Like Fun." It's downloading right now, in fact.
But the other thing we've been doing is trying to decide about a mattress. It's a big deal, apparently. Here's an email I sent out to some friends, asking their advice:
Until recently, I had one of those memory foam/water bed things designed by some NASA scientist (or at least that’s what the salespersons told us). I was absolutely sold on the idea of some team of guys at Cape Canaveral in full astronaut gear, tinkering with some experimental foam found in space, testing a waterbeds in zero gravity atmosphere. “Think of it, honey! A space waterbed!"
'Tis the season for a filling calendar! We have Easter, St. Patrick's Day and Spring Break looming, plus ballet performances and filming for Summer Xtreme. All the while, there's writing and more. Daddy and Mommy came up with an idea to have Madison in the skit on Sunday, which is something she is really wanting to be a part of. Daddy just needs to write it out, but more than likely that will appear here. Sunday afterwards, there's ballet production practice. In fact, there's practice all day. Daddy has to go to a Kids Day Out roller skating event for KidPak this weekend, while Madison is dancing to "Frozen" again. Madison practices more on Sunday after KidPak, and starts off "tech week," which is going to be an interesting week for all of us. Lots going on!
Madison already has a good handle on her vocabulary words for the week. One of the words is "telethon," which goes with "telephoto," "telescope," "telemarket," and "televise." The telethon word brought out a pretty big conversation this morning about what a telethon is, exactly. Isn't it amazing that if you're of a certain age, when I say "telethon," you think "Jerry Lewis"?
Anyway, the words seem to be good in her mind currently, so she'll probably be doing well on the test on Friday. In the meantime, she's been assigned this electrical project to create - we'll be doing a bit of thinking on that one, because maybe we can make something fun there.
Also, today was her "Live to Give" session after school, where the kids were making gift bags for new students that are transferred in, some "welcome bags" that all the parents went out and got stuff for. We bought some candy last week to send in, and these were just part of the loot that went into these bags. Madison and others were stuffing these bags after school, getting them ready for new students.
She had piano today, which is going fine. She can play "Greensleeves," which is allegedly written by King Henry VIII, which is another reason to not like this song. Seriously, it drags on and on. And it has Christmas lyrics to become "What Child is This," which make it slightly better, because Christmas makes things slightly better. But Daddy's not a big fan of the song. Nevertheless, Madison is playing it well, a somewhat more complicated song to play than you'd think.
Madison had "media" today, which means a trip to the school library. She was excited to pick up a copy of "Dolphin Tale 2," which suddenly is on her mind again. She wants to watch both the movies again. We'll do that, although tonight was a little tight on time with the piano class. She actually did her math homework in the car on the way there. Getting home, we had just enough time for playing some Darkstalkers, this after the increasingly and amazingly frustrating "Epic Mickey 2," which I think we've given up on at this point. As much as we want to like it for the steampunk elements, the basic gameplay is just too frustrating to actually enjoy. Daddy was okay, but Madison was having a hard time with it.
This brings up one of the most important rules of video games: if you're that mad or frustrated about a game, it's not worth it. If you're screaming at the screen, it's not worth it. In this case, we both were pretty frustrated. I remember back in the 90's, how I was a "completionist" with games, wanting to get every achievement and every item available for games, to have it completely done. There was a video game company called "Rare" that cured me of that. Although I was doing well with "Goldeneye" and "Donkey Kong 64," there was this one last honeycomb in a game called "Banjo Kazooie." I remember vividly the day I looked at it, and what I had to do to earn it, and just imagined all the yelling and screaming I would be doing at the screen. Because earning that honeycomb would take a lot of frustrating effort, and repeating the same thing over and over again, hoping to get lucky, getting so close and falling short, time and again... was it worth it? No. Epic moment. Ever since then, I've been cured. And hopefully you will be too. It's just not worth all this stress and effort to get a honeycomb on a screen. Or whatever it may be!
Anyway, thus concludes today's lesson! And now, it's off to sleep, but before that, a few items on the market: a CD and a mattress or waterbed.
Tonight, I just ordered yet another new TMBG release. That's Daddy's favorite band for many years now, and they've just released a new CD called, "I Like Fun." It's downloading right now, in fact.
But the other thing we've been doing is trying to decide about a mattress. It's a big deal, apparently. Here's an email I sent out to some friends, asking their advice:
Until recently, I had one of those memory foam/water bed things designed by some NASA scientist (or at least that’s what the salespersons told us). I was absolutely sold on the idea of some team of guys at Cape Canaveral in full astronaut gear, tinkering with some experimental foam found in space, testing a waterbeds in zero gravity atmosphere. “Think of it, honey! A space waterbed!"
ANYWAY, I woke up one morning recently and said to myself, “Either I’m leaking or this bed is.” Fortunately, it was the bed, which is now dead. It is a dead bed. But it’s been around for many years, so there’s that. It had it coming.
THE POINT: Does anyone have a purple mattress? Or know of someone with a purple mattress? This is a much-ballyhooed mattress, and the marketing campaign is rather clever. BUT, a mattress is somewhat of a big investment (approximately $1400 more than the latest TMBG CD). I’m reading reviews, and getting a new mattress is a much bigger process than I remember it being in the past. I feel like I’m researching for a car!
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| This is a purple mattress.
The science of it was first suggested by Prince, who then sent it to a NASA engineer friend of his.
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If you have any thoughts or commentary or personal experience, feel free to respond to this email. Just curious, really. We’re leaning towards what we had before (with some updates as it’s been twenty years). But color me curious, and purple.
But don’t color me badd.
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