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Flower on the Rails

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We went to Pittsburgh last weekend for my dad’s 50th birthday. (Yeah, my parents are young ‘uns.) After the traditional debate about what to get my dad for his birthday, Tom and I settled on the Logictech Harmony remote, so that they don’t have to do the remote-juggling dance while they find all the remotes for their devices, remember which one has to get turned on first, etc. Tom and I have one, and it has made managing our plethora of devices a million times easier- it had gotten to the point where I had nearly given up on watching TV when Tom wasn’t home, because even as tech-oriented as I am, I couldn’t keep track of all the different settings. So I figured that it could handle my parents’ three devices quite easily.

The remote was always sort of a family in-joke in our house- when Dad was around, he was in possession of the remote. And when he inevitably dozed off in front of the TV, someone would try to snag it from him, and he’d always wake up as you tried and grab it back.

On Easter, we went to church with my parents at the church I had grown up in, and where I’ve only been back to visit once in about the last 10 years. I’m old. There was a family sitting in front of us whose eldest daughter had been a buddy of mine, but I didn’t recognize any of the (now mostly grown) children until the mother sat down with them. When a young man sat down with them, I thought he was the middle daughter’s boyfriend… but then I realized he was the youngest boy, who I haven’t seen since he was in diapers. Yikes. On the other hand, the guy who ran he youth group when I was in high school hasn’t changed a bit. I think I might have detected a teensy bit of graying at the temples, but aside from that, he looks exactly the same as he did 10 years ago, despite having gotten married and having two kids since then. Time is weird.

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