Joe

Saturday was the last game of the season. I learned a lot of things about communication (with 6 year-olds and with their parents), time-management, teamwork, motivating children, etc.

I’d like to try this again soon, but probably not next season.

In 1st grade, our class built a robot that could quiz you. On its chest, it had a row of questions and a row of the answers. If you touched its right arm to a question and its left arm to the correct answer, it would light up. (The secret was that there was a wire between the matching questions and answers that would complete a circuit!).

That year, I went to Bellingham, WA for my cousin Matt’s Bar Mitzvah. I was playing with my other cousin Daniel and his friend Robby. I remember commenting that our robot shared his name.

Actually, I recall the exact phrase (though it’s a bit embarrassing to recount verbatim): “You think my name is weird? Your name is the name of our class robot.”

One of my sons was singing the theme song to the old TV show Heathcliff (where do they hear this stuff?) which brought back a memory:

I’d go to my friend Mathew’s house after school, and Heathcliff was on at the same time as a show that he wanted to watch. So we’d watch 15 minutes of Heathcliff and 15 minutes of his show.