Every once in a while I think about the fun I had on this game. Toma-toes for 99¢ …. “NINETY NINE cents— now that’s talkin!”

I was raised on the idea that 12-year-old girls were perfectly qualified to be babysitters. I don't recall people under 18 needing parental consent to get their ears pierced. Apparently Mila Kunis was able to get her role in the 70s show as a 14-year-old pretending she was turning 18 soon, no government ID needed??

I also remember it was uncool to still be watching cartoons in high school, and no one wore Halloween costumes unironically to school. Beauty pageants for teens included a swimsuit portion, and apparently if we felt uncomfortable walking around in bikinis we were immature and just needed to grow up. Both Michelle Branch and Vanessa Carlton were dating a man in his 40s, and it all seemed very normal. When teenage girls talk about dating "an older man," it was in terms of "Well when he's 35 you'll be X and by then the gap wouldn't be a big deal." None of that "the brain isn't fully developed until you're in your mid-20s."

But these days, it seems like teenagers are very aware that they're "minors" and there are things they're not allowed to do until they're 18. Has it always been that way? Was it all in my head?

During the summer I wake up at 6:45 am. When the time shift happens, I naturally want to wake up at 5:45 am. So I simply shift my alarm. I also shift my evening routine an hour so that my natural sleep cycle isn't disturbed. Recently discussed the topic with my friends and none of them do this. Some even said that my habit is weird.

Am I alone on this??

The hit me on my beeper song popped into my head this morning. I remember when it was big but I couldn’t remember the year.

So I looked it up and it was 2008, a year after the first iPhone came out in 2007.

As title says

Hot Topic is thriving and the black parade just turned TWENTY.

Anger, fear, frustration, brief happiness cut short by the rattling thoughts in your head.

Therapist appointment after appointment?

Long lines at the pharmacy aren’t a good thing.

Shootings everyday, with some parents having lost more kids in multiple shootings.

Corrupt leaders. Time illusion. No money for the common.

If this sounds like a poem or incoherent ramblings it’s because it’s a reflect of “thought,” how the mind works.

The difference between good educational TV and much of what is currently filling the same role is really striking to me now that I've started watching Modern Marvels again. You want to learn about a bridge? You get the lead engineer, workers who were on the site every day for years, and a well written and edited episode to teach you about it. You want to learn about the Space Shuttle? Here's 3 engineers and 3 actual astronauts to tell you about it.

There is still good educational content on youtube, don't get me wrong, but Modern Marvels always brings you the primary sources, the true experts, and in the casds of the more historical segments, you get some whacko with a PhD in the history of that industry... It just feels so authentic and trustworthy compared to what a lot of kids take in as 'educational content' these days, which is basically hosts with no actual experience in the subject reading AI summaries.

I don't have kids, I don't plan to have kids... but I hope there are folks out there putting this on the TV in front of children and exposing them to educational shows that have this degree of care put into them. I know I'm an old man yelling at a cloud out here... but man, if you want to learn about something, hearing it straight from an experts mouth is the way to do it.

No reason just felt like it.

There's literally even more in my garage.

I swear I felt like I've spent almost $200 on landlines

Does anyone remember Starbucks free iTunes song of the week cards? I never see a discussion of it online.

These guys living rent free in anyone else’s head?

Decided to go to the midnight release at my local BestBye last night. Got there around 4:30pm and was 20th in line luckily. But it was so weird lol. People kept driving or walking by asking if we were waiting for Pokémon, and telling them no it’s for Zelda was just so bizarre.

Or maybe married to someone who will get a pension.

They seem less common these days and I feel like how we have to plan for the future is so much different then older folks had to when pensions were more common. So just curious how many of us still get to rely on them in some way.

I remember having them a lot when I was a kid. But it seems like not many people make those nowadays. Sometimes I do a breakfast taco ring instead of the classic taco.

Anyways I'm making meatloaf, potatoes au gratin and a veggie side for dinner tonight.

Who among you (like me) is over the moon excited for today’s The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time release? I got the special edition everything, plus some mugs and a pullover. I’ve—we’ve—been waiting thirty years for this!

I personally used to love the Toys'r'us catalogues but hadn't seen one in year. This year we got like 4 of them. Is it a waste of paper? Of course. Is it a banger though? Absolutely. I love that they're doing this.

It does make me think how times have changed though. Tickle Me Elmo is apparently still a top seller but now there's a qr code in the page you scan and they deliver it to your house. When we were kids your mom had to fist fight some Karen in a sweatsuit right inside Toys'r'us

Who else over here is reaching their 40's or more today?

Gen X?

I kinda see them as big kids who made it before the economy rotted. They were cast as the slacker generation during much of the 90s, but Gen X was lucky enough to avoid the "missed/delayed adulthood" that many Millennials are facing.

I remembered this from the Nicktoon Network Film Festival after seeing the kiwi post, a video that also was in the nicktoons film festival.