The Best Zoom

Google Meets, Zoom meetings, Facetime, voice conference calls, electronic meetings of every shape and flavor have been the primary way for adults and children to communicate during the Safe at Home time of COVID-19.    It's just a normal occurrence to the children and they think nothing of it.   Calls in pajamas are one of the best plusses I think we would all agree on here.

I've attended good and bad calls.   There is the problem where someone is new to the technology and can't figure out how to mute so they keep crashing into the call with their accidental audio.   Sometimes the resolution isn't great due to a poor connection on one end or the other or, and this is more likely, the ISP is throttling the data because there are just too many conferences going on at the same time and there's not enough total bandwidth to get all the children in video conferences at 9:00AM.

I had one birthday call that was a nightmare to tell what was going on with terrible resolution and an almost psychedelic flickering of faces to the forefront as everyone tried to talk unintentionally crashing into each other's sound.

Tonight I had the best video call though.   My nephew, Kyle, is graduating today.   He's at home and there is no graduation ceremony.   His diploma may be in the mail at his condo in Florida and he's not sure how or when he'll get it.   So tonight, his mother coordinate a call with close family.  

Kelly got it just right.   She hit the Goldilocks Zone for a Zoom call.  We could all fit nicely tiled on the screen and we didn't have to be on mute if we weren't the current speaker.   We congratulated Kyle and then had a good time catching up as a family.

The Big Boy Update:  My son heard Madison, Kyle's girlfriend for many years, say hello to him on the call tonight.   He got shy!  He disappeared and tried to come up with something he needed to do outside, which I didn't let him do.   I think he remembers her and still has a crush on her which started over four years ago.

The TIny Girl Chronicles:  My daughter wrote a "Biopoem" today about Kyle.   It's a certain format of poem that starts and ends with the person's name and describes them in the lines in the middle.   She read  it to him on his graduation call tonight.   It was cute.