Planning Ahead

Here's one guy's take on how to do it.

So I haven't been posting much at all because I've actually been running! I'm not sure how or when it happened, but I slowly slipped into the lifestyle of an active adult, and I have been working on my C25K regiment regularly, plus doing yoga and other activities. Even went swimming today! So I'm slowly working on that Cardio goal, and I'm pretty excited to imagine that when the need arises, I may actually be able to pick up my kid and run for my life.

However, I'm also aware that I'm not invincible, and I'm on the early part of my training as of yet. Thankfully, the folks at the Run for Your Lives 5k race have made the days of my departure a bit easier on my friends and family by offering their funeral services as a prize. I have entered to win this unusual $5,000 award, and am wondering how others will feel about it if I were actually to be randomly selected. Honestly, I don't see it as a negative. $5k is nothing to shake a stick at, and really it was their run that got me off my butt and moving in the first place. Lucky for us all, the chance of me actually winning are practically impossible. But props to the run organizers for a super interesting marketing attempt.

Braaaaiiin Food: Where do you draw the line for collecting money?

Passing It Down to the Generations

If only we got to experience Pac Man
 like this as children.

My boyfriend and I took our kids to the Art of Video Games exhibit at the Smithsonian this weekend. We really wanted a chance to share our memories - and in a large way our heritage - with our youngins, and in some ways the show allowed us to do just that. Both of them got to play Pac Man and Flower on giant project screens, and then took a tour listening to stories about all of the different consoles we grew up with, to include not only NES, Genesis and the original Playstation, but even Commodore 64 and Colecovision (though now that I think of it, was the Atari even there?).

The exhibit was fun and a nice trip down memory lane for us 30-something gamers. But if I had any complaint, it would be at the brevity. I think all told the exhibit was about two large rooms, maybe three. And while the consoles were on display with a few images, there wasn't really any art. I think, in my head, I was expecting framed prints of landscapes, characters, and iconic pieces of lore (like the bob-omb) to adorn the walls so that we could share our personal memories with our offspring. Instead, I felt like it was more of a scientific reverie on what once was and what now there is. Surprisingly, there wasn't a little addendum about "what could be," either.

I wouldn't say that it was a waste of time, and I think I'd like to go again to explore a bit more in detail without the munchkins. But I did think the entire exhibit could have been so much more.

Now I just need to find a new way to share all the oldies but goodies with the wee ones.

Braaaaiiiinnn Food: What bits of nostalgia would you want to share with your kids?