My Kids Grew Up in the '80s
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| I really didn't want to do it...but I did. I downloaded PokemonGo |
My oldest son, Derrick, who will be 34 next week, was mentioning it about 10 days ago, saying to get ready? Then my youngest son, Paul (28) and my niece (29) and her boyfriend came up to lake last weekend and that's all they were doing: Catching Pokemon! They were hoping to catch some on Lake Wawasee but were afraid to take their phones on the boat.
I remember drawing the Pokemon characters in Kidpix in 1996! My students could guess who I was drawing after I drew the first line! It was all the rage! and it appears, its all the rage now, twenty years later, in 2016.
So here I am, at a google conference with a bunch of techies and we are talking about Pokemon Go! I'm at the hotel, not really hungry for dinner as lunch was HUGE! Thunderstorms are approaching so I decide to see if there are any Pokemon in the area.
Guess what? There were three! I was excited and headed outside towards the Pokemon. All three of them were within 5 feet of each other at the corner of the hotel. But I couldn't catch them. I ended up texting my kids for tips. When I finally figured it out, catching Bulbasaur (My 1st), I was out of pokeballs...so I headed back inside, before the impending thunderstorm hit the area.
So here I sit, kind of deflated, writing a blog about Pokemon. Good thing there is a box of wine in the room!
I remember drawing the Pokemon characters in Kidpix in 1996! My students could guess who I was drawing after I drew the first line! It was all the rage! and it appears, its all the rage now, twenty years later, in 2016.
So here I am, at a google conference with a bunch of techies and we are talking about Pokemon Go! I'm at the hotel, not really hungry for dinner as lunch was HUGE! Thunderstorms are approaching so I decide to see if there are any Pokemon in the area.
Guess what? There were three! I was excited and headed outside towards the Pokemon. All three of them were within 5 feet of each other at the corner of the hotel. But I couldn't catch them. I ended up texting my kids for tips. When I finally figured it out, catching Bulbasaur (My 1st), I was out of pokeballs...so I headed back inside, before the impending thunderstorm hit the area.
So here I sit, kind of deflated, writing a blog about Pokemon. Good thing there is a box of wine in the room!
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