Me and my Shine

As a convocation gift, my wife and kids got me an activity tracker called a Misfit Shine (pictured right), which works to help me keep track of my daily activity goals.

In addition, it looks really cool - it's a dark blue colour called "Storm" and wearing it makes me feel like I'm living a little bit in the future.

Although not as well known as the Nike Fuel band or the FitBit, for sheer cool factor I'm pretty impressed with the thing.

I'm still in early days as far as claiming its effectiveness, but so far it seems to work pretty well, and I'm really enjoying using it for it's secondary feature as a pretty neat little analog watch.

So my oldest daughter is a University Graduate

At 10:00 this morning my family headed to our local university to watch our oldest daughter's Convocation ceremony.

It was pretty darn awesome.

Although I don't necessarily feel old enough to have a University-graduate daughter, it doesn't really matter, as I now have a University graduate daughter.

And I couldn't be more proud.

Things I've Noticed: Sometimes Pomp and Circumstance can be pretty cool

I just got back from my university convocation - kind of like a graduation, but with strange medieval style hoods and a lot more razzmatazz that anything I've been to before.

The picture to the left sort of looks like the outfit I had, only there wasn't a hat and the red area was a little fancier.

When I was seventeen I skipped the province rather than attend my own high school grad, so today was my first education-related ceremony I've attended since my daughter's high-school grad last year (or my junior high farewell back in the early '90s - our slow song of choice that year was More than Words by Extreme), and I've got to say, this was a pretty amazing shindig.

Good eats, nice people and very fancy, I'm also quite enamoured with the various items you get to wear with higher education - the hats are pretty amazing!