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18 Sep 2015, 6:13 pm
were you an MOS 52?
No, I was in the Navy. I worked my way up from Keypunch Operator, to Computer Operations, to Engineer, to Director of the Training Department.
you a chief?
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19 Sep 2015, 7:18 pm
My daughter and I talked this topic a little bit at lunch today.
Her eyes got huge big around when I told her that I remember a time before McDonald's had Chicken McNuggets. 
And how there were only six channels on television and NO devices by which one could play whatsoever movie one chose. No BluRay, no DVD, no video cassettes--you just had to wait and hope that channel five or whatever would play a good movie one night that week. She was astonished at her mother's deprived childhood.
Just thinking that her mother is older than videogames and Chicken McNuggets seriously floored her.
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22 Sep 2015, 9:38 pm
Back in 1974, the year I was born, Mr. Potato head went through a dramatic change where he no longer had arms, was much bigger, and his potato body was a dark brown that made him look like he'd been baked for too long. He was very strange and kind of creepy-looking. Also instead of holes you had to put the pieces into slots that were deigned only to hold each piece in its proper place, so you couldn't have the fun of mixing up his face or having his feet stick out of the top of head. I vaguely remember my brother and I getting him for Christmas, but he disappeared so suddenly and mysteriously that I used to wonder if that was just some weird thing I imagined. It was in the 80's that Mr. Potato Head got his more modern and more pleasing shape and appearance, and regained his arms and holes. He also got that sweet door in his butt for storage. 
I actually have several holiday-themed Potato Head toys that I bring out when each holiday gets close.
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22 Sep 2015, 10:24 pm
I guess you could call that storage compartment a "rumpus room"
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22 Sep 2015, 10:51 pm
Her eyes got huge big around when I told her that I remember a time before McDonald's had Chicken McNuggets.
And how there were only six channels on television and NO devices by which one could play whatsoever movie one chose. No BluRay, no DVD, no video cassettes--you just had to wait and hope that channel five or whatever would play a good movie one night that week. She was astonished at her mother's deprived childhood.
Just thinking that her mother is older than videogames and Chicken McNuggets seriously floored her.
I work with kids a lot and the other day I accidentally mentioned dial-up. Took a while to explain that one to them.
Here's something a friend brought up the other day and for some reason it scares me a bit. We all remember 9/11, right (recent anniversary)? Well there are kids in high school now who weren't even born when that happened.
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22 Sep 2015, 11:21 pm
that makes me feel ancient. 
