I’ve reached that place in my mind where I only occasionally think about youth sports. I don’t long for being a part of it anymore but I do, once in a while, remember the excitement of the moment and the routine of getting up to get to the game and watching it all unfold. It was, in truth, a very long moment in time, and now that it is over I do get the occasional flashback. I still engage with sports at the HS level and I enjoy that. It is growth and it is different than the youth situation by far.
What triggered the thought today was being in the gym on the treadmill and noticing there was a USFL game on. The game was played in a near empty stadium, which prompted me to think, “youth games draw bigger crowds.” The rest is obvious. No, I did not check scores. I’m not that far gone anymore. I reflected. I thought about how far my kids have come. Then I turned my head slightly to the left to watch the screen playing Rambo Last Blood. That, dear reader, is a terrible bit of fiction. And now…
Some Thoughts:
- Won’t be long before we start to trivialize what is a quite serious solar flare problem with some crappy made for TV movies and one errant blockbuster. Yeah, I might write a story that ends up being used for evil… The issue here is a concept called fast magnetic reconnection, which if properly harnessed could be the key to limitless energy. It is basically the real science behind an arc reactor, which MIT is legit trying to build, BTW. The problem with these outputs are that the sun is unpredictable — especially in regards to how powerful a flare will be and where that energy will be directed. We get hit wrong and it is a post-apocalypse in a heartbeat.