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What I learned on vacation
Jun. 24th, 2007 11:23 pmI learned a few important life lessons while on vacation last week, and I want to share my wisdom with you all.
1. It's a very, very bad idea to have a cell phone in your pocket while sitting by the pool--you know, just in case you have to jump in and save a drowning five year old. (I also had my son's virtual pet in the other pocket, but he was OK with the way it met it's premature death; the Tamagotchi met a worthy end.)
2. Never trust that your signficant other has put sunscreen on your children before sending them out to the beach/pool.
3. Posting super-secret info from your job on your blog is of course a no-no, but if one is going to do it (as someone my brother-in-law recently hired did last week), one really shouldn't also post identifying information such as a photo of "my cubicle." Oh, Ogre, (whoever you are) don't you know that when you work for a software development company your boss just might know enough to set up Google Alerts to message him when the company name pops up on a blog?
4. If attending an outdoor theater performance on a sunny day (Cinderella performed by the Lost Colony cast), it is worth sitting farther back from the stage to get seats in the shade.
Update: The Tamagotchi and the cell phone are alive! Right after their near-drowning, I put them in an air-tight container and filled it with stuff that soaks moisture out of the air: crystals from inside a (clean!) disposable diaper and uncooked rice. After three days, I took the gadgets out and replaced the batteries. Hooray! The cell phone is fine and the Tamagotchi only suffered slight damage to the LED screen.
1. It's a very, very bad idea to have a cell phone in your pocket while sitting by the pool--you know, just in case you have to jump in and save a drowning five year old. (I also had my son's virtual pet in the other pocket, but he was OK with the way it met it's premature death; the Tamagotchi met a worthy end.)
2. Never trust that your signficant other has put sunscreen on your children before sending them out to the beach/pool.
3. Posting super-secret info from your job on your blog is of course a no-no, but if one is going to do it (as someone my brother-in-law recently hired did last week), one really shouldn't also post identifying information such as a photo of "my cubicle." Oh, Ogre, (whoever you are) don't you know that when you work for a software development company your boss just might know enough to set up Google Alerts to message him when the company name pops up on a blog?
4. If attending an outdoor theater performance on a sunny day (Cinderella performed by the Lost Colony cast), it is worth sitting farther back from the stage to get seats in the shade.
Update: The Tamagotchi and the cell phone are alive! Right after their near-drowning, I put them in an air-tight container and filled it with stuff that soaks moisture out of the air: crystals from inside a (clean!) disposable diaper and uncooked rice. After three days, I took the gadgets out and replaced the batteries. Hooray! The cell phone is fine and the Tamagotchi only suffered slight damage to the LED screen.