1. What is the statue of limitations in terms of how long a completed jigsaw puzzle must remain sitting on a dining room table before being dismantled? Is there a formula based on the amount of time it took to complete it? We took three weeks finishing this triangular-shaped balloon puzzle....and now that it's finished, it seems very unsatisfying to put it away. Yet should we keep it forever as a trophy to the world showing what I did?
Two to three days seems about right....just to reinforce to each of us that we achieved a great accomplishment.
(It's kind of like books in a bookshelf. Why do we keep books we've already read? As a tribute to what we read? If we never think we're going to read it again, we should immediately donate it to a library...why take up valuable house space showcasing what we've already read.)
2. Sometimes I worry that we aren't doing enough for food storage.
But then I cleaned out the car the other day and realized we're just keeping our food storage in the car! I probably vacuumed out a day or two supply of Goldfish, fruit snacks and other sundry items that seem to preserve quite well. And better to have it in the car than in the home as it's mobile in case you have to evacuate. Plus, no matter how many goldfish crackers are in the car seat already, it seems like you can always fit more, so storage is never an issue.....
Mark
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Thursday, January 24, 2008
New Year Musings
Ah, the New Year. A time when things get busier in the toy industry than during the holidays (as we gear up for the NEXT holiday season). As such, my blog has suffered -- this after the potential surge of readership that could have occurred after mailing my Christmas card.
For those faithful who waited patiently for some new content, here we go:
• Noggin, the pre-school channel, is now 24 hours a day. It used to just be 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Lucky me...I got to experience the first "overnight" Noggin as I was up New Year's Day around 4:30 with one of the kids. Yes, there is a market for 24 hours pre-school channels.
• Matthew has no desire to be potty trained. Before Christmas, I made a run to Target and saw how much pull-ups cost! So I've now decided to deduct the cost of the pull-ups from the monthly amount I used to set aside for his college fund. If he doesn't have enough to make it through school, well, it's not my fault.
• Giants vs Patriots....not as good as Red Sox/Yankees, but fun all the same, especially as we get to play the underdog for a change in the Boston/New York relationship.
• Getting a window seat in a row of three on my morning and evening train to the city is very important to me. 95 percent of the time, it means you have an open seat next to you as very rarely does someone attempt to sit in the middle seat. (Across the aisle are rows of two). I'll gladly sit in a row of three close to a stinky bathroom if it means getting a coveted window seat of a three. I'd rather put up with the smell than miss out on my desired seat.
• I feel like I've arrived. We're doing a worldwide Monopoly vote campaign right now (I'll write about that later, but visit www.monopoly.com) and I get to do a radio interview in a few minutes with the largest station in South Africa. I couldn't be more excited.
• My next talk in church is going to be: Lessons from assembling jigsaw puzzles that can be applied to home teaching.
• I think Environmentalism is the new world religion....or at least it's the replacement for organized religion in some people's lives.
• I can now add a new name to list of famous people I've worked with in my odd career: Miss Universe.
I'll try to write some more powerful insights in the next few days.
Mark
For those faithful who waited patiently for some new content, here we go:
• Noggin, the pre-school channel, is now 24 hours a day. It used to just be 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Lucky me...I got to experience the first "overnight" Noggin as I was up New Year's Day around 4:30 with one of the kids. Yes, there is a market for 24 hours pre-school channels.
• Matthew has no desire to be potty trained. Before Christmas, I made a run to Target and saw how much pull-ups cost! So I've now decided to deduct the cost of the pull-ups from the monthly amount I used to set aside for his college fund. If he doesn't have enough to make it through school, well, it's not my fault.
• Giants vs Patriots....not as good as Red Sox/Yankees, but fun all the same, especially as we get to play the underdog for a change in the Boston/New York relationship.
• Getting a window seat in a row of three on my morning and evening train to the city is very important to me. 95 percent of the time, it means you have an open seat next to you as very rarely does someone attempt to sit in the middle seat. (Across the aisle are rows of two). I'll gladly sit in a row of three close to a stinky bathroom if it means getting a coveted window seat of a three. I'd rather put up with the smell than miss out on my desired seat.
• I feel like I've arrived. We're doing a worldwide Monopoly vote campaign right now (I'll write about that later, but visit www.monopoly.com) and I get to do a radio interview in a few minutes with the largest station in South Africa. I couldn't be more excited.
• My next talk in church is going to be: Lessons from assembling jigsaw puzzles that can be applied to home teaching.
• I think Environmentalism is the new world religion....or at least it's the replacement for organized religion in some people's lives.
• I can now add a new name to list of famous people I've worked with in my odd career: Miss Universe.
I'll try to write some more powerful insights in the next few days.
Mark
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