Tech Review

I followed my friend Tom's advice and spent some time with my kids this weekend. After we introduced ourselves to each other, we talked about some fascinating things for which my kids curiously couldn't summon much enthusiasm: SEO, pagerank, sitemeter, the future of the Republican party. They tried, selfishly in my opinion, to talk to me about some of the things they care about. My son plays baseball somewhere. My other son babbled something about interlocking plastic pieces and apparently there's a game out there called "Yu Gi Oh.". My daughter won something at school or maybe got kicked out...I don't know, but either way, it wouldn't have made a good post.

My wife mentioned leaving, but I think she just meant that she was going to the mall.

Really, it was one of the best weekends of my life for its complete relaxation and lack of drama. My wife was in a state of euphoria conducting her garage sale, and when she's happy, I'm able to do other stuff. My kids were relatively nice. Technology-wise, it was a winning week, with successful upgrades and a new phone and computer in the home. Entertainment-wise, I watched a few episodes of Firefly.

Firefly - The Complete Series

I performed two works of techity (technology charity); I fixed one of my students' computers and gave another one that I had in the garage to another student so that she can do my homework.

I was a man in a complete state of peace. Which usually means that I should prepare for some kind of problem soon. As Solomon said, "This too shall pass." Far be it for me to add something to the wisest man in the world, but I will anyways: it's not a good idea to get too up or down and never, ever, get complacent. When things are going well, that's when you have to work hardest to keep things going.

One thing I didn't do is blog. I don't know if you know what I mean, but I have so many things to write about, including some thoughts on the things above, that I freeze when I approach the keyboard and wish to avoid the computer altogether, which I'll do for a couple of days.