on tuesday morning, i got a calender reminder on my iphone that said,
“Apple iPhone Announcement @10am online”
of course, he would put it on the calendar.
i got a call from him as i was hefting my baby seat into a restaurant with my girlfriend for lunch that day, and i listened to all of the specs of the new phone whilst ordering my chipotle philly chicken sandwich…
turns out i married my dad.
cc was going on about “and then there is this chick in your phone that you tell her what to do and your phone just does it… like your voice thing… on steroids…..” and i was just thinking of saturday mornings growing up… i used to climb in bed with my dad reading his macworld magazine, and he would somehow find a way to talk to me attentively and still absorb that techno garb at the same time. he still sleeps with his macworld. and he has owned at least 8 different models of the apple computer…. needless to say, my family has iphones.
when cc and i were first talking about getting married, i remember it was almost a deal-breaker that he wasn’t a MAC user. we joked that we would be a cross-platform marriage, and that was just another compromise i would be making. {there weren’t many}
within weeks, he was converted. within months, we purchased our first mac together. {i hope this sounds as melodramatic as intended}
listening to cc go on about the ins and outs of the keynote address {see, only true nerds even know what that is}, i just thought of how i’m sure my dad piped that through at work just like he listens to conference while mowing the lawn. i assured him that we could watch it while we made dinner… which we did. and that made him one giddy little schoolboy.
last night, cc called to tell me he wanted taco bell for dinner. i assumed it was a rough day at work, and i hadn’t made it to dinner ideas, so i obliged. plus, he had dinner in his hands and was home within 8 minutes.
that sad sad boy came home and told me about steve jobs passing. i hadn’t learned of it because, well, i’m on a social media “diet” right now. {turning off all those little notifications on my phone has already changed my life} he admitted that while he didn’t know him personally, he couldn’t understand why he felt “in mourning” over it. it didn’t help that his day was long to begin with…
we have talked lots about what life must be like for the jobs family and what they could do with all that money. its not that secret of a fantasy, and makes for fun conversation over our $20 dinner at red robin….
and the conversation usually ends with our resolve to be millionaires, because we would be pretty charming at it.
well, i couldn’t not write in our family journal about the man that gets talked about more than most at our house.
“The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.”
– Obama
