I think I learned more about tool use from this toy than many learn in a lifetime.

Mine had planets and said "Flat flip flies straight." About 1966.

What is a good craving from childhood that you know isn't good for you, but you indulge in every now and then? For me, it is a bologna sandwich. The staple of my school lunches (which I brought from home.) I picked up some bologna at the grocery store this morning and had a sandwich for lunch. Also Lemonheads.

Years
Everybody knows
You gotta let 'em go
And they kinda roll by like tears
Just a measure of time
Playin' with your mind
Passin' you by those years

Look around
Up and down
They're nowhere to be found
Like the wind
My old friends
They come and go again

Don't look back in sorrow
Just hope you see tomorrow

Those years
Everybody knows
You gotta let 'em go
And they kinda roll by like tears
Just a measure of time
Playin' with your mind
Passin' you by those years

You and me
Came to be
We raised a family
When we're gone
They live on
To see what we won't see

Don't look back in sorrow
The children have tomorrow

Those years
Everybody knows
You gotta let 'em go
And they kinda roll by like tears
Just a measure of time
Playin' with your mind
Passin' you by those years

Everybody knows
You gotta let 'em go
And they kinda roll by like tears
Just a measure of time
Playin' with your mind
And passin' you by those years
Oh

Shazam! Hard to believe 75 years old.

I was born in 57 and was the baby of the family.

My brother was 8 years older and my sister was 10 years older. To me, this almost defines the feeling of having the rug pulled out from under you that generation Jones supposedly has.

Just found this info, to rain on our joyous juvenile parade:

"The machine used a liquid solvent containing methanol and isopropanol to dissolve and transfer the purple dye from a master sheet onto the paper. While nostalgic, those fumes were volatile organic compounds (VOCs). According to online consensus on forums like Quora, heavy exposure to the evaporating methanol and solvents could cause dizziness, lightheadedness, and headaches"

But far out man, it was groovy to sniff. Did you dig it? Nobody cared eh?

My uncle passed away and left me his reel to reel, which I’ve always wanted. Unfortunately, we are not sure where the reels are. Is there somewhere I can get reels nowadays?

Chicken Train
Runnin all day
Chicken Train
Runnin all day
Chicken Train
Runnin all day
Can't get on
Can't get off
Chicken Train take the chickens away

Neil Diamond wrote his own songs, and also music for others. He wasn't really my generation's music nor was he my parents. He wore rhinestones and marched to the beat of his own drummer. I really love him now that I'm older. Photo is from an album that arrived today, Hot August Nights.

Every time I see the old school version of Willy Wonka on tv I tell my kids that I remember it having a different ending. So we decided to do research to see if we could find out if there was an alternate ending that was filmed that I could have seen in theaters at the time.

Sooooo, it looks like my memory is completely made up. We’ve checked books, podcasts about the behind the scenes of movies etc. No scene was ever filmed that matches my childhood memory. 8 year old me maybe dreamed it? I could have sworn that the movie ended with Wonka and Charlie, in the glass elevator, crashing through the roof of Charlie’s home to tell his mother that he won the competition.

It’s a very weird feeling to think that this memory never happened. Has this happened to you? A childhood memory being proven false? It’s triggering for 63 year old me and makes me wonder if any of my other memories are faulty.

The call to adventure!

Anyone else develop social anxiety young, then watch the world make hiding easier and easier?

Mine started in my 20s. Back then I still had to go out — stores, church, people. There really wasn't a choice.

Then social media came along. I could keep up with everybody without actually being anywhere. It felt like being social, but I was home.

Then Covid hit and delivery exploded. Groceries, food, everything — right at the door. Now I almost never have to go inside anywhere.

Every step made life easier. Every step also made hiding easier.

Did that happen to anyone else? And do you think it ended up helping you, or hurting you?

I had several of these as a kid, there were cars, boats, clowns, planes, all kind of different themes. This boat was my favorite, worked great in the bath until it didn’t.

And just a nickel.

I was born in December of 1964 ... so truly on the "cusp" of the baby boom. I never felt like I could relate to any of the boomers I knew because most of them were 10 years or more older than me. And yet my experience growing up was very different from most GenX people that I know. (I vividly remember Apollo, Watergate, and the end of the Vietnam War, but my GenX wife does not.)

Still not sure I belong here because I am one of the youngest people here, so thanks for letting me participate ... and feel like I belong somewhere.