It's that time of year

If only we were able to hold on to this type of weather for a majority of the year.  How beautiful the surrounding trees look with their contribution of colors just waving in the wind.  The aroma of fire places emitting smoke into the gray skies of fall.  Sweatshirts and long pants coming out of hiding and showing their true meaning of existence.  It brings us to a sort of homecoming I have never experienced before.  My girlfriend is a grad student at Gallaudet University, which is a school for the deaf in the middle of DC.  Their homecoming was yesterday and she invited my daughter and I to join her.  We went and loved it, the score was 26-0 by the end of the third quarter and we got up from our chilled bleacher seats to go get some of her school stuff.  However prior to us leaving, watching the fans chat with one another using nothing but ASL was very intriguing to both my daughter and myself.  My daughter made the best attempt at signing that she could, but we spent a majority of the day with her mind turned on, yearning for knowledge to better her signing capabilities.  I as well learned some new words and feel a little more confident in signing.  But the true magic was the way it captivated my little girl and made her want to learn more.  While walking around the school we were looking around and I noticed they have a lot of cool gadgets for the deaf students that attend school there.  One thing in particular that caught my mind was a touch-screen TV that was located next to the elevator that would guide the students to the necessary spot in the building they needed to be.  Very cool.  On the screen I noticed a lot of different things going on all at once.  I don't know if it was Adobe products they were using, but I caught the use of Flash, Photoshop, InDesign, After Effects and Premeire.  To see all those products being used to create one screen and do it in complete harmony was truly amazing,  My girlfriend had to pull me away, literally, but I did manage to push a few buttons and it was so awesome.