Monday Meanderings - 1.19.2015

We were sitting quietly the other day and Barb's iPad rang! As in, there was a phone call. Turns out that is a new feature of the current Apple software, but of course, Apple makes these things hard to learn about.

I ordered something the other day that promised 2-day delivery. I ordered on Friday, and the confirmation said the package would be delivered on Sunday. Sure enough, we got home from church and there it was. Maybe Amazon is already using drones.

Passed a new/old business the other day - a trampoline park. You remember when these were all the rage, back in .... oh, never mind. This one was indoors, which makes a lot of sense. The businesses that sprang up back in the 60's were merely a series of pits dug in the ground outdoors with trampoline frames covering the pits and gravel piled around each of the tramps. From the pictures I have seen of the new venture, they have improved on this model with a LOT of padding.

Padding is a good thing. Back in the day, I was out at one of the parks with some college friends, one a football player originally from Breck named Glenn Dixon. Glen was about as wide as he was tall, and very solid. He was better at football than the art of trampolining, though. He would take about 3 big bounces and the mat would launch him out into the gravel median. He thought that was the funniest thing that ever happened. Then he would get up and do it again. We just stood around and watched in awe as a 300 pound body hit the ground from about 8 feet up.

And at long last scientific inquiry has revealed that all those YouTube videos showing how to fold a fitted sheet are fake. The truth is that they cannot be neatly folded. I'm so relieved.