Re: http://sandradodd.com/ifilet
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Re: http://sandradodd.com/ifilet
I read that as I Filet probably the first twenty times I saw it. Had no idea
why you'd call it that but figured it MUST mean something. I felt pretty dumb
when I finally parsed it out correctly. :)
Anyway...
Patrick (14 this week) is really into video games. Loves them. Absolutely. In
addition to owning a Game Cube, Nintendo DS, and half interest in an XBox,
he's trying to aquire a complete historic Nintendo hardware collection. He plays
a LOT of video games, and thinks and reads and writes about them when he's
not playing them.
And still, it's not all he does.
For the last half hour he was picking out Camptown Racers on the electronic
keyboard. He's been picking out songs almost every day this week. Thursday
evening he went to the driving range with his dad, they're just about ready to
finally go out for a round. Every day for the last week (month, year) he's gone
for a bike ride, at least a mile round trip. Twice this week he was at the
skate park working on basic skateboarding skills, as well as almost every day on
our patio. (He's asked for a GOOD skateboard for his birthday.) Today he was
out with friends whacking around with the foam swords he made, riding bikes, and
generally running around together. This week he's been reading the most
recent book in the Series of Unfortunate Events, Nintendo Power, GamePro, a book
about fencing, and a book on WWII tanks that his fencing instructor lent him. He
just picked up the Muse issue from March 2005 about Pompeii and took it up to
read while asking me for what else we have around the house on the subject.
He was awestruck by the recent exhibit at the Field museum in Chicago from the
excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum, it's taken a while to want to probe
further.
His twin sister Sarah is also a gamer (one of her favorite T's reads "Video
Games are a Full Time Job"). She owns the other half of that Xbox, as well as a
Playstation 2 and Nintendo DS. She's often found on the unschooling gamers
list talking about the games she loves. But it's not all of her life. Yup, she
spent a LOT of time on the computer this week - she started a new SIMS family.
She also rode her bike 2 miles to the forest preserve to do some nature
sketching. She wrote a little more for her ongoing artist encouragement series. She
spent quite a lot of time painting. She read several more chapters in her
current fantasy novel. She spent hours and hours and HOURS on the phone with her
best friend who moved 1 1/2 hours away last summer.
They've never, ever, only played video games, even on days when they had new,
wonderful games.
And they're still pretty smart. :-)
Deborah in IL
I read that as I Filet probably the first twenty times I saw it. Had no idea
why you'd call it that but figured it MUST mean something. I felt pretty dumb
when I finally parsed it out correctly. :)
Anyway...
Patrick (14 this week) is really into video games. Loves them. Absolutely. In
addition to owning a Game Cube, Nintendo DS, and half interest in an XBox,
he's trying to aquire a complete historic Nintendo hardware collection. He plays
a LOT of video games, and thinks and reads and writes about them when he's
not playing them.
And still, it's not all he does.
For the last half hour he was picking out Camptown Racers on the electronic
keyboard. He's been picking out songs almost every day this week. Thursday
evening he went to the driving range with his dad, they're just about ready to
finally go out for a round. Every day for the last week (month, year) he's gone
for a bike ride, at least a mile round trip. Twice this week he was at the
skate park working on basic skateboarding skills, as well as almost every day on
our patio. (He's asked for a GOOD skateboard for his birthday.) Today he was
out with friends whacking around with the foam swords he made, riding bikes, and
generally running around together. This week he's been reading the most
recent book in the Series of Unfortunate Events, Nintendo Power, GamePro, a book
about fencing, and a book on WWII tanks that his fencing instructor lent him. He
just picked up the Muse issue from March 2005 about Pompeii and took it up to
read while asking me for what else we have around the house on the subject.
He was awestruck by the recent exhibit at the Field museum in Chicago from the
excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum, it's taken a while to want to probe
further.
His twin sister Sarah is also a gamer (one of her favorite T's reads "Video
Games are a Full Time Job"). She owns the other half of that Xbox, as well as a
Playstation 2 and Nintendo DS. She's often found on the unschooling gamers
list talking about the games she loves. But it's not all of her life. Yup, she
spent a LOT of time on the computer this week - she started a new SIMS family.
She also rode her bike 2 miles to the forest preserve to do some nature
sketching. She wrote a little more for her ongoing artist encouragement series. She
spent quite a lot of time painting. She read several more chapters in her
current fantasy novel. She spent hours and hours and HOURS on the phone with her
best friend who moved 1 1/2 hours away last summer.
They've never, ever, only played video games, even on days when they had new,
wonderful games.
And they're still pretty smart. :-)
Deborah in IL
Nancy Wooton
On May 7, 2006, at 11:48 PM, DACunefare@... wrote:
iFilet...
Nancy
> Re: http://sandradodd.com/ifiletI did that, too; it must be a Mac person thing. iPod, iTunes, iBook,
>
> I read that as I Filet probably the first twenty times I saw it. Had
> no idea
> why you'd call it that but figured it MUST mean something. I felt
> pretty dumb
> when I finally parsed it out correctly. :)
iFilet...
Nancy
Sandra Dodd
On May 8, 2006, at 12:48 AM, DACunefare@... wrote:
My favorite is wordswords
http://sandadodd.com/wordswords
It looks more like word swords, but that's FINE.
Ambiguity can be another fun connection. <g>
Sandra
> I read that as I Filet probably the first twenty times I saw it.I see it that way every time. <g>
> Had no idea
> why you'd call it that but figured it MUST mean something. I felt
> pretty dumb
> when I finally parsed it out correctly. :)
My favorite is wordswords
http://sandadodd.com/wordswords
It looks more like word swords, but that's FINE.
Ambiguity can be another fun connection. <g>
Sandra