Small put a huge amount of work into his Team Skylanders entry last week. He designed the new character requested in pencil drawings, and then set to modelling it and animated using Zu3D software (review forthcoming). Somehow he misread the entry date as being last Friday so the day was taken up with entering, and a last minute panic from me when I realised that the entry was supposed to be a tweeted photo and somehow he hadn’t taken a picture – so I lifted a still from the animation via YouTube.
Somehow, in the middle of all of that I completely failed to notice that you also had to leave a comment. So I didn’t. Which pretty much invalidated his entry and all the hours of work he’d put into it.
Today the winners were announced. Unsurprisingly, he didn’t win. I did shed a tear. Look, I’m shattered. The baby was up at 2.30 throwing up through coughing, and then was awake until around 4. Exhaustion does funny things to you.
I went to tell Small the bad news. He took it fairly well, the not winning, until I told him the rest of it, about not leaving the comment. Then he cried too. But I can pretty much guarantee he’ll read terms and conditions very carefully in the future and we won’t have that to go through that again.
So, was my honesty worth it? We’re both sad and cross, and he’s sad and cross with me. But I’d given him the details and left him to it, thinking that he was old enough to manage that. Really, with hindsight, given that he missed the photo thing and got the date wrong you’d think I’d have triple checked at that point, but somehow I didn’t.
And now the cat’s been sick on my armchair. I’m having a great day. How about you?
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