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I Support My Children...
Nov. 5th, 2009 02:05 pm...even when I don't understand them, quite.
When I was a kid, I briefly got into marbles. A pit version of the game was hot on the playground during recess, so I got an assortment of marbles, lost a bunch to the gambling aspect of the game, then started winning a bunch. My dad heard about my new hobby, found his old marbles (!), and then watched in amazement as the two-dimensional ring-based game he grew up with was ignored in favor of the three-dimensional black-hole-based game I played.
My younger daughter is very much into the Circus Arts; she has a diablo and devil sticks, and takes a class in aerials (silks, the lyra, and some kind of modified trapeze).
But what did she want for her birthday? Stacking cups.
Are you, like me, too old to know what the deal is? Check out this kid:
Last night, my younger got started on her new set of glow-in-the-dark stacking cups. She assures me she's not ready to actually try them out in total darkness yet. But just by practicing last night and this morning, she got her time down from 57 seconds to 45 to 33 to 27. It amazes me that this activity has a set of patterns for different "sprints", which are internationally recognized for competitions.
When I was a kid, I briefly got into marbles. A pit version of the game was hot on the playground during recess, so I got an assortment of marbles, lost a bunch to the gambling aspect of the game, then started winning a bunch. My dad heard about my new hobby, found his old marbles (!), and then watched in amazement as the two-dimensional ring-based game he grew up with was ignored in favor of the three-dimensional black-hole-based game I played.
My younger daughter is very much into the Circus Arts; she has a diablo and devil sticks, and takes a class in aerials (silks, the lyra, and some kind of modified trapeze).
But what did she want for her birthday? Stacking cups.
Are you, like me, too old to know what the deal is? Check out this kid:
Last night, my younger got started on her new set of glow-in-the-dark stacking cups. She assures me she's not ready to actually try them out in total darkness yet. But just by practicing last night and this morning, she got her time down from 57 seconds to 45 to 33 to 27. It amazes me that this activity has a set of patterns for different "sprints", which are internationally recognized for competitions.
