Birthday Party!!

Recently I went to my granddaughter Corinne's 13th Birthday Party. Too be honest with everyone I had forgotten how mature looking and childish acting 12 to thirteen year old girls are. There was a lot of giggling and laughing. I suppose I should point out, that all of these girls consider themselves to be "Nerd Girls". Now, I am not really sure what that is supposed to be, but they seem to think it is the thing to be. They all make relatively good grades. They are all much more computer literate that I am, and they are all involved in art, music, drama or writing. Corinne has had several of her poems win state wide recognition.

At one point, in the evening, she asked me, how old boys need to be before they start to grow a brain. I was forced to tell her that by my observation some never do, however; some girls never do either. She stated that the Nerd Boys show some promise, but the jocks were hopeless.

At one point her had her friends asked me, my wife, and father's mother about computers when we were in school. Now I should point out that I was in High School from 1956 to 1960. I told her that there were no computers in my school, and the PC had not even been invented yet. In fact, I told her, there were not even hand held calculators, when I was in school. Three or four of these young girls, and her cousin, who is a 14 year old boy, exclaimed how did you do math problems (in rather excited voices). I told them, with pencils.

I enjoy all of my grandchildren, I have eight in all.