Saturday, June 21, 2003

I was playing chutes and Ladders with my daughter tonight.  She has all the stories of what happened to the people down pat.  "This boy ate too much chocolate and the consequences are that he has a stomach ache".    Hence the long slide back down to square 14.  This boy pulled the cats tail and the consequences are that the cat rearranged his face, plus he slid all the way down to square 20.  This girl returned the woman's purse, hence her climb up the ladder to square 90.  The problem that I see ( and I think a clue to the degradation of our society) is that in the game these rewards and punishments come at you completely at random - through a roll of the die.  So it is teaching the kid that she has no control over the rewards and punishments that she gets; they come from a truly whimsical God.  One day you're getting some good love from a dog you were nice to and the next you are sitting at the bottom of the longest chute on the board with a busted ass and a pile of broken dishes around you. I might feel differently about it if I had won. 2:52:21 AM    comment []

Sushi is my favorite food.  I made the mistake of eating it in front of my co-workers.  It is strange, but about the entire Division of Fisheries at the DNR just hates sushi.  They hate the very idea of it.    Maybe seeing all those fish cleaned on dirty picnic tables with knives that were wiped off on someones pants last season made them believers in cooking.   Maybe it is a class thing; yuppies eat sushi.  My co-worker told me that the emergency rooms of Japan are full of sushi cases.  This I doubt, but have no proof.  2:28:15 AM    comment []

Tonight, the young master had excessive flatulence.  His sister told him that the sound from the farts was a monster that was chasing him.  So he comes running by me bare naked with this expression I won't call terrified, but deeply concerned, looking over his shoulder while farts are shooting out of his butt.  I had to chase him down and explain really clearly that there was no monster. 2:19:42 AM    comment []