Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Recovery

Sorry it's been a while. I was a tad under the weather this past week. The Kid brought a case of the sniffles into our humble abode. While she was only moderately phased by it, the virus in question grabbed my normally superhuman immune system by the scruff of the neck and kicked it repeatedly in the groin until it lay whimpering on the metaphorical floor.
I didn't help matters by ignoring the symptoms and pushing myself too hard all weekend until it was far too late. By Monday, it was all I could do to get out of bed and onto the sofa.

Having said that, The Kid is making some fairly dramatic and rapid developmental advancements. She can now crawl with ease, and pull herself up into a standing position using tables, chairs, and on one warm day recently, my leg hair. She is even capable of standing un-assisted for several seconds at a time. Less than a week ago, she could do none of these things. She even danced for the first time, along with some music on the TV. We got a short snippet of that on video, which I hope to post soon.

The creator of Dungeons and Dragons, Gary Gygax, died the other day, and the 14 year-old nerd part of me is saddened by that. It reminded me of that terrific Tom Hanks made for TV movie Mazes and Monsters. Tom plays a kid who gets way into a game just like D&D, and can no longer separate fantasy from reality. I think he even ends up stabbing a friend because he thinks that the friend is a goblin or something. Apparently that was a concern at the time. Would that our modern child-rearing concerns were as mundane...

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Anonymous said...

I remember that movie - in the end they find him atop the World Trade Center because it represents the Twin Towers of Tolkien s world.

ps, I hope you moved on from D&D to Melee: In the Labyrinth

Collinszicr said...

I remember that movie - in the end they find him atop the World Trade Center because it represents the Twin Towers of Tolkien s world. ps, I hope you moved on from D&D to Melee: In the Labyrinth

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