The Art of Rotting
One day we might go outside again.
The weather here has been simply horrible since Christmas Day with ice, winds and snow.
This means we’re all on day 3 of being together. ALL THE TIME.
All this to say WE ARE BORED, have spent way too much time on our devices and the couch and each other’s nerves. Also, we’re out of Christmas cookies and this makes me sad.
Simply put, it’s time for 2025 to get on with it and get over so we can get back to school and a somewhat more regular pattern of accomplishing something other than laundry and overusing my robot vacuum.
We did have a late Amazon delivery show up yesterday with a late Christmas present of a Mad Libs book, and so far this has been the hit for her this Christmas. Forget the $500 video game console she’s afraid of - this is the thing that now gets the most use.
And it’s great. She hasn’t quite realized that you can/are supposed to play it alone so for the time being we’re all gathered around the table to play. She’s pretty good at it - she knows her verbs and nouns and adverbs and adjectives - which is more than her old Dad can do.
This is a good game because it uses her brain, and makes it fun too - all for about five bucks a book. She woke up this morning and after she gorged herself on YouTube Kids she came downstairs to come back to reality and the first thing that she wanted to do was to play this game.
This is great, because it makes her think and write and love story telling which is a well respected pursuit in this household because well, reading and writing is important.
AI can write some garbage and spew it out, but it can’t replace the smiles and full on belly laughs that comes at the end of the game when she reads aloud the results of adding some random nouns and verbs to a half-finished story at the kitchen table with family.
When the game is finished, we get the results read to us twice because if it was funny the first time, it’s even better the second time around.
Just wait until she finds out about Scrabble.
Reluctantly Housebound,
TH and Co.