What's Going on?
K serves up a winner
K has been playing tennis after a few weeks off. He played in some instructional matches over the weekend, where they don’t keep score of the games, they’re just to give the students practice. He's going to practice weekly with a group consisting of other students 14 and under.
He also got a new violin not too long ago. Shar Music allowed us to borrow some to try at home before buying, and K picked out the one he liked best. Violin cases are very, very light these days, so taking it to school doesn’t strain his muscles much more than his backpack already strains them. Whether my wallet is strained is another question.
The mysterious sport of Ultimate Frisbee is partially depicted here. Parents are not allowed to know the rules or why it's played.
M is doing more Ultimate Frisbee and scoring points and it’s all still a great secret to his parents who aren’t really welcome at his games. But that’s OK - when he’s out playing Frisbee with his friends, we’re at home going through his room to make sure he’s not hiding anything from us.
The schedule for the conference at which I spoke
I spoke at a conference on Monday, the first time I’ve done that. The conference was sponsored by my company, and I was on the committee that organized it and picked the speakers. And volunteering to do it filled in an empty space in the schedule, so the committee (including me) were clearly not employing high standards in filling the slot. But - it counts. So there.
The talk was titled “C is for Cookie: Web Development Concepts for Analysts and Managers”. Before the class began, we watched this video. The “cookie” in my talk wasn’t an edible cookie, but rather the kind of cookie that your computer might store when you’re browsing the web. The point of the class was to introduce technical concepts to non-technical members of our development staff. It went well: the audience laughed when I hoped they would, my rehearsals in front of other people paid off, and it was a fun experience for me.
Book Nook
I read the book "Divergent" which is very popular with the kids these days and is also a movie. It was a pretty decent book until the end, which was quite unsatisfying. I'm not the only one who feels that way. Divergent belongs to a genre that has been very popular: books set in dystopian societies. "The Hunger Games" and "The Giver" are two more examples. Doesn't anyone write books about talking pigs and spider webs anymore?
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