Which is more important: the tiny conversation or the game?
As I wind down to go to bed a bit earlier (in the hope of some proper shut eye this time!), I thought I would find and play the Tetris game that 
The plan was to play a game. Get a high score (because that's what you do right out the gate, right?! 馃榾), take a screenshot and then talk about it here.
But first I replied to a message from my Dad.
He lives in Asia, while I live in Australia and so I rarely get to see him. In fact, I've seen him, in person, on two short trips in the past 7 3/4 years.
While I love him dearly, we have pretty different worldviews as this point. So, our conversations are not easy, flowing or joyful.
They're not necessarily hard either, just a little bit stifled, polite, restrainted.
He still wants to be the Dad who knows all the things whose daughter takes his advice (even when she didn't ask for it). Yet, I have become a wise, worldly woman who sees and understands things he will never even try to grok.
Yet, still I love him. He is super smart and could teach me in endless topics that surprise me that he somehow knows anything about. I wish he was better able to talk about hard things and express his emotions but I'm grateful that he does not take his relationship with me for granted.
And I am still grateful to have him in my life, even if he's thousands of kilometres away.
So, even though our text conversation tonight was surface level small talk, I decided that this was more important than seeing if I could somehow play the only real game I ever play (Tetris) on the Hive block chain instead of elsewhere.
Because one day, my Dad will be gone. And I'm sure as hell not going to care if I missed out on optimising my gaming behaviour to make the tiniest bit of HIVE.
(Sunrise photo from my phone camera from somewhere here in Southern Victoria in lieu of a photo of my Dad since he would hate having his photo online. I request I shall respect as long as he lives.)
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