Day Two

7:05am on March 22, 2009

I slept a triumphant 5 minutes longer than yesterday morning – so for the record I was wide awake 6:38am on our first day here and 6:43am today. That’s me. Do you remember those cars we had when we were kids that you would rev up by repeatedly rubbing them on the floor. They would rev higher and higher until you pressed a button on top and then all the revved up stored energy would burst. That’s how my brain works; it revs all night and when I wake up it’s like someone pressed the button on top. My brain explodes with ideas and things to do.

And I’m fine with that; I like my brain.

Yesterday was a glorious day. I started with some breakfast, excellent coffee, and writing. Shane Hipps new book Flickering Pixels: How Technology Shapes Your Faith is relighting the parts of my brain originally lit while reading Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media.

Another point – lest any of you are ready to chastise me for “working” on my vacation: vacation for me means reading, thinking, and writing. These ARE my leisure activities. The difference is I didn’t bring any school reading or schoolwork along.

Anyway, the beach was AWESOME! We spent about three hours there, the girls on the beach chairs, Mark and I in the surf, standing in the water talking, enjoying cold beverages, and occasionally jumping into the water for a swim and some wave battles… but mostly standing around talking.  A couple of times we so engrossed in conversation that we didn’t see a large wave approaching – large enough to almost knock us over. It didn’t manage to knock us over completely but we both had salt in our eyes and our cups.

It started raining around 3:00pm. We went to another pool and Mark and I tried to keep swimming for a while where we were informed that if we’d like to smoke a joint later, we can go to room 7211. Eventually it got too cold and we scampered up to our room – where Mark had a 5-hour nap!  And the great thing is: we’re on vacation, so anyone can do that if they want to.

The rest of the day was food and rest and bad TV. We watched “Jon and Kate + 8” –the first time I had ever seen it – and within 3 minutes I strongly disliked Kate. She’s sarcastic and puts her husband down and demeans him in front of their kids (not to mention the thousands of strangers watching).  “Oh come on,” you might say, “they’re a young couple with 8 kids – it’s bound to be stressful!” Agreed.  Now, ask yourself this: would their lives be more or less stressful if they weren’t being lived in front of TV cameras for all the world to see?  So I won’t be watching that again.

That’s where we’re at. How are you doing?

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Michael Krahn (michael.krahn@gmail.com) is a husband, father, Pastor, writer, and recording artist who enjoys books, theology, technology and the Ottawa Senators.
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