January 14, 2015. Nuevo Vallarta, Mex. Darts.

Once upon a time, many years ago, our family was in The Canary Islands. David and Suzanne were newly married and Andrew was in law school, so we were together for two weeks over the Christmas and New Years weeks. Every day we went out to explore. The weather was perfect and we arrived back to the time share weary. Our custom was to eat our main meal out at lunch. In the evening, we just picked from the fridge or pantry. And we wanted to sit around and watched TV. Unfortunately, the International Dart Championship was being held in Germany so every evening, we watched darts. At first we just laughed but soon we got interested. We figured out the scoring and the strategy and even the personalities of the players. By the time the tournament ended, we knew everything about technique and winning. A Canadian won the championship, which still is the only time a non European has won the championship. I learned an important lesson, which is that everything is interesting if you know enough about the topic. Once after a baseball game, Joe commented to me that the game was not terribly interesting. Not so, said I. We saw a squeeze bunt and two pickoffs and on and on I went. He just did not know enough about baseball to know what was going on out on the field. Suzanne and I still laugh about the time we watched darts every evening…and enjoyed it too.