I don’t want to brag or anything, but J’s grandma, who is 95 years young, is the reigning Wii Bowling Champion at Pittsburgh’s Friendship Village community. She regular puts the hurt on those upstart 87 year olds.
We saw her last week at J's parents' house, along with her uncles, Bill and Sean. Bill and Sean flew to Pittsburgh from Miami, picked up a rental car, and the three of them drove to East Lansing for the weekend. When J's grandmother needs to walk somewhere, she pops up from her chair and gets there as fast as anyone else. (Except M and K, who run everywhere.) It was great to see everyone.
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A while back I posted a thought about how digital clocks are boring because they don’t DO anything. Analog clocks, ticking away, DO something. They move and make noise and provide feedback to their owner. You can wind them and feel the spring pushing back,. You can imagine the coil inside the clock twisting and compressing.
I was looking at some old New Yorker comics a while back, and I found a comic that reminded me of the digital vs. analog clock comparison. The comic was from the 1978 when LCD digital clocks were starting to get popular. It has a picture of a digital clock sitting on a shelf. Above it is a thought bubble that says “Tick Tock Tick Tock”. A digital clock dreaming of being analog – I love it.
So, I looked online to see who owns the rights to these comics, because I wanted to post that comic on this blog. I was hoping they would say it was $5 or something, which I would have been willing to pay, just for fun. Conde Nast, the owners of the rights to the comics in the New Yorker, replied that it would cost $125 for me to reproduce that comic on my blog.
Oh well. It was worth a try.
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School starts next week. There is a law in Michigan that says school can't start until after Labor Day. This year, Labor Day falls on the latest possible day in September. It also means the kids get out of school late in June.
We'll find out who the kids' teachers are some time this week.
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Have a great week!
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