Empty nest blog recap

Okay it has been a long time past that empty nest started. So I am going to recap and hit the highlights here.

First off what you have to understand is that empty nest starts before the child actually goes off to college. This is a weird time for both the child and the parent. The child is exploring it's independece, and the parents are trying to figure out where the boundaries are. Relationships need changing but rarely do those involved know how to change them. We are after all human and more inclined to emotion than ration. So even in the most ideal relationships ideals pre-emp common sense. Basically nobody knows where they fit they just know that things will change and try to prepare.

The preparation is itself worrisome. How far to go? How far to let go? Admitedly I fared on the side of long windedness. But still how do I speak with authority. Where does my gerisdiction reach?

iPod log phase 1 (aside perhaps?)

Okay so here goes nothing or something. I don't know but i am typing from my itouch thing and it is totally different than having a keyboard. But, it's better than not logging at all. Well not really the thing is I totally need s video game because some days are worse than others. So, what happens when you get an ithingee and only have like a dozen cd's to add to it? Well in my case you fill the stupid thing up with podcasts and free apps. Although if I were going to be completely honest it is not even half full yet. Still I can play cribbage and roll dice and score boardgames. And now apparantly I can post to my blog as well. The sad thing is that this doesn't work when you turn it sideways. Okay that isn't truthful completely because it "works" BUT...it doesn't slide the keyboard into the wide and less likely to hit the wrong letter thing. So, I am not writing this in order to complain about the stupid tiny keyboard, but more so that I can talk about th podcasts I listen to and what i think about them. It's funny because the look of the keyboard reminds me of when I was a kid. For Christmas one year my father got the family a computer. Specifically s timed Sinclair 1000. With the big block extra ram and a cassette storage device. Ahh the hours of fun playing "dukedom" and then the even more fun changing the program to triple my crops. Bug that silly thing had s membrane keyboard which is exactly nothing like this "touchscreen" keyboard. EXCEPT. The fact that you cannot type forcresl on either one. still it was my first introduction into the wonderful world of technology. And now where an I? I've got e cell phone without the phone and I have actually concidered a facebook account. What I really want to know is why in the ever-lovin turbid world can't I log my games through my ithingamajobby? There is a bgg app but it doesn't log plays. Or am I just to technophobic to actullu check for that? One thing I have learned is that I still forget what I'm typing mid sentence. Oh yeah I learned that wifi is not near as common as media portrays it.


Questions to ponder:

Why do people feel a need to pretend like they are going to pass me and then just pace me as the lanes end?

Do they make the screen keyboards so cramped to discourage parents with fat fingers from emulating their children?

How likely am I to post more frequently now that I can do it in a new and tinier yet more portable way?