Awww, thanks Dad
Sep. 28th, 2008 10:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daidoji_giseiI got a phone call from my Dad this evening. It's been awhile since we've talked, so that was nice. What was even nicer was the reason he called--tonight 60 Minutes devoted a large segment of the show to the Large Hadron Collider, and he immediately thought of me. I was deeply touched. :-) I won't say that he's done everything right in being a Dad, but I think I'm still pretty lucky to have him.
Discussing the LHC with him was kind of fun, because although he has essentially no knowledge of high-energy physics, he grasps completely what it means, in construction terms, to build a 27K concrete tunnel underground. This results in a situation where the two of us both understand the scale that the LHC is built on, but for completely different reasons. This made me happy.
I think of him sometimes when I am writing L5R; specifically when I am writing for Doji Domotai, who is a confirmed daddy's girl. Domotai gets a lot of what I consider to be weird reactions from some readers. I mean, she loves and admires her father and wants him to be proud of her. Is that really so bad? Really? (Granted, she currently displaying this by having a war, but given her status and Rokugan's culture this is perfectly normal--praiseworthy, even.) I was once sufficently baffled to the point where I wrote a post asking one of her critics if they had a father, because their argument didn't make sense otherwise. I ended up deleting it unposted because I couldn't tell if it would be considered flaming and I didn't want to put the board's moderators in a bad spot.
I've never tried explaining any of this to my dad. He knows I write for a game company, and he was pleased when I showed him AEG's website (and a story with my byline!) last Christmas, but I've never really talked about *writing* to him. I'm not sure why. I'm not sure if it matters, or if it does, why. Maybe I should think about it some. We don't see each other often; perhaps I should be prepared for the next chance.
Discussing the LHC with him was kind of fun, because although he has essentially no knowledge of high-energy physics, he grasps completely what it means, in construction terms, to build a 27K concrete tunnel underground. This results in a situation where the two of us both understand the scale that the LHC is built on, but for completely different reasons. This made me happy.
I think of him sometimes when I am writing L5R; specifically when I am writing for Doji Domotai, who is a confirmed daddy's girl. Domotai gets a lot of what I consider to be weird reactions from some readers. I mean, she loves and admires her father and wants him to be proud of her. Is that really so bad? Really? (Granted, she currently displaying this by having a war, but given her status and Rokugan's culture this is perfectly normal--praiseworthy, even.) I was once sufficently baffled to the point where I wrote a post asking one of her critics if they had a father, because their argument didn't make sense otherwise. I ended up deleting it unposted because I couldn't tell if it would be considered flaming and I didn't want to put the board's moderators in a bad spot.
I've never tried explaining any of this to my dad. He knows I write for a game company, and he was pleased when I showed him AEG's website (and a story with my byline!) last Christmas, but I've never really talked about *writing* to him. I'm not sure why. I'm not sure if it matters, or if it does, why. Maybe I should think about it some. We don't see each other often; perhaps I should be prepared for the next chance.
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Date: 2008-09-29 05:56 am (UTC)Opinions, as always, should be taken with a pinch of melange.