The Sun & the Rain

First day of work in the US back in 2004, the receptionist greeted me with 'Good Morning, looks like you brought the sun with you!' and all my confused self could think was 'That doesn't sound good, but she definitely does not look upset either'!! 

Lots of songs still remind me of that day and confusion. 

While an English song goes 'You are my sunshine....' 

a Tamil song goes 'Un azhagaale en veyil kaalam ini mazhai kaalam...' (rough translation: thanks to your beauty my sunny days are now rainy ones...)

😅

The Phone Stress

My older one in 6th grade - they had a small class project. Design something, get it made, and then come up with an advertising for it and present in class. 4 kids  in the team. They designed it, got it 3d printed at school and had a skit ready for the advertisement before heading home for the weekend. 

Three of the girls have phones. The three are texting each other during the weekend about this project. By Saturday afternoon, they realize that none of them have the printed artefact. Is it with the 4th person? How do we contact her?  .....

By Sunday morning we are in panic mode. What is our backup? Plans discussed...alternate plans made...there was a Plan C and even a Plan D.....I had to cut some wood and make something that looked roughly like a bottle. Had to take the kid to a craft store and get some wood paint.....Am guessing the other two parents were also helping out with their backup plans...

Next update was Monday evening...'oh...we found it in the classroom...we will use it tomorrow for our skit...!' 

The girl without the phone and her folks had a pretty peaceful weekend am guessing....

:) 

Minding their Business

News reports on business channels are always very focused on their business. 

Mainstream: "Russia has a 100 THOUSAND troops ready to go!!!" 

Business: "should we be more worried about inflation or Russia today?"

So are kids. Back when USA gave that submarine deal to Australia, and France was PISSED at the USA for torpedoing their deal with Australia:

Mainstream: "France recalls US ambassador, this is the MOST SIGNIFICANT peacetime warning a country can give another!!"

Our kids: "does this mean there won't be any more Macarons at Costco?" 

Electric Gas Stations

 Another day, another TV reporter talking about electric cars. It’s usually the same pattern. Go in a couple cars, marvel at the technology, exclaim how smooth the ride is or how fast it accelerates and then go to a charging station and lament how slow it fills up. Then compare the number of gas stations to the charging network. 

They usually skip the one crucial factor: everyone who has a house essentially has a ‘gas station’ at home and are leaving the house with a full tank every morning! So we don’t need an equivalent network of charging stations!