The biggest challenge between our family and a successful vacation is keeping Ryan occupied. We bring along enough comforts of home — laptop, Hockey Guys — for him to keep a sense of routine, but we also don’t want him spending an entire vacation engaged in these solitary activities. So we limit his time with […]
Read more "Vacation, Part Two – Let the Games Begin"This morning, I shaved and put on shoes of the non-flip flop variety for the first time in 10 days. I was not happy about either of these developments. This morning, it’s back to the routine, back to the morning commute, back to reality. Vacation is over. I was happy, thrilled even, to return from […]
Read more "Vacation, Part One – Going Home"I have been trying to get Ryan to watch the movie Miracle, well, forever. As a hockey-loving eight-year-old in 1980, the Miracle On Ice was an amazing thing for me to experience. I didn’t understand the geopolitics that amplified the importance of the event well beyond sports. All I knew was that the USA was […]
Read more "Do You Believe in Miracles? Yes!"“I thought you were surfing the internet?” “I was. I finished it.” Those lines come from an old commercial for DirecTV’s DSL service, suggesting that with their high-speed service, one might actually reach the “end of the Internet.” (See the spot here.) It was a silly suggestion (geek comment: With DSL? As if!) even 10 […]
Read more "The End of the Internet"Boredom. It is the chief obstacle to any successful down time for our family, whether on vacation, a weekend, or a random summer day. Ryan almost always opts to spend his free time engaged, typically alone, in his favorite activities: typing standings, playing NHL2K on the Wii, playing Hockey Guys. His initial reaction to any […]
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Pucks and Puzzle Pieces 