Today a big box arrived in the mail addressed to me. It was an assortment of goodies that my daughter had found up in my mother’s house, along with a birthday gift for me. A lot of the things were old brain-teaser puzzles. It was fun to pull them out and challenge my wife to see if she could figure out how to do them. One of them, called the Russian needle she did what I told her she had to accomplish, but she cheated. Of course she pointed out to me that I did not specify HOW I had to solve the puzzle, and she did accomplish the goal, so I guess she has a point there! Next time I’ll be more specific!
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My wife’s parents live in a very remote area that is not highly populated. When we go to visit them, it seems like we have left all civilization behind us! And that’s really saying something because we live in a very rural area ourselves! Out where they live it is very poor radio reception, and up until recently they only recieved one television station! With the digital conversion, however, we’ve convinced them to look into getting DIRECT TV. They only have a couple of rooms with television, and for the most part it is just the two of them.
I was surprised when I went online to see what DIRECTTV options might be available for their neck of the woods, and found that there are a whole host of DIRECTV offers at reasonable prices for them. So I’m going to email them the information that I found out. I hope it helps them to make up their minds about what to do for the television entertainment needs!
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Today I found a television channel that displays photos of the music bands of the 50′s and 60′s while playing the popular songs from the era. That was the time I was growing up. The music of MY generation. I’ve been listening to the music all afternoon, singing along to every single song. Sitting at the dinner table, eating our dinner I told my wife “now THAT’S REAL music!” She just gave me a funny smile. When I asked her what was behind that funny smile she said “That’s what my parents used to say about the big bands like Glenn Miller and Lawrence Welk!” It’s hard to imagine in about twenty or thirty years ago our kids will be listening to songs like “Put a ring on it” and saying “now THAT”s REAL music!” (Although I have to admit I like that song!)
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