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November 14, 2008
NaBloPoMo 3.14: Conspiring
I've been having some serious connectivity issues lately. I always thought the Mac was surfing a bit slow, way back here in my office, but lately I'v been getting about 20 seconds of surfing for every 10 minutes of refreshing. I'll admit, I like to spend time back here with my electronic babies, but not futilely hitting refresh until a single page finally loads, and then trying to move onto the next to get it refreshed before my packets get sent off into oblivion again.
Then again, it seems like everything I do is futile, lately. I swear, I tell the kids the same things over and over, obviously without results or I'd shut up and move and nag them about something new. Isn't the definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result? That's also the definition of how to teach your kids manners. No wonder i feel like I'm going insane.
Speaking of insane, I got Wii Music the other day. At the time, I was hoping to interest the girls and get them off my back, and it's music, right? Can I call it culture if they learn it from a video game? They weren't too impressed at the beginning, mostly because it's a lot of tutorial stuff to get you going, and it's hard to teach them when I don't really know what I'm doing myself. They've asked for it the past couple of nights, though and will "play" some of the games with me. As in, I have a controller, and they watch.
Amusingly, I can't really tell who's playing what part and how badly in the Jam sessions (although the resulting "music" is horrific), but Jamie keeps going on and on about how good she is. Now that I think about it, she might not be half bad at the drums/percussion, since she apparently has rhythm, despite her complete lack of tune. I can't really tell, though, because the sound of six different instruments being played less than perfectly is my definition of hell. I've discovered in the last five years that I'm somewhat sensitive to sound, and that too much or the wrong kinds drive me absolutely batty,
Information that would have been useful to me prior to having kids.
Posted by me at November 14, 2008 8:54 PM