Spike
By Mitch Berg
I’m prone to carrying out little experiments on my kids.
For their own good, of course.
For instance, when my kids were in first and third grades, my son’s reading scores were lagging a bit. So late that May, about the time school let out, the TV broke.
No, really. It did. And I pled poverty, and let it sit unused all summer long, until late September. The kids had nothing to do all summer but play and read. And the kids’ reading scores improved; Bun went back to school reading at a ninth grade level, and Zam was way ahead of his level, too.
So the following summer, the TV broke again. OK, this time it “broke” – a cable broke, and rather than replace it I pled poverty again, and let it sit for four more months. The reading scores improved quite a bit again.
Late last spring, my laptop and the family’s desktop broke down almost simultaneously. Part of the problem was gross overuse; the kids were just online too damn much. So I let ’em stay broke again. And it was a generally good experiment.
But it kinda played hell on my blogging. For the last three or four months, I’ve been blogging at coffee shops, libraries, and on the occasional break at work.
Well, no more. I got a computer put together last night. And was able to actually blog at home for the first time in quite a long time, quite a long time, quite a long lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time.
My output today probably was your first clue, though…
