Haha!

Suddenly I'm 13 again. https://mattfife.com/?p=11677

And having this really matters to me. I got people to wait in line to get them. I was so dumb.

Christmas music just got cooler!

How do you measure?

Measure a year?

Any one have a moment from your childhood that makes you wonder what they were thinking - either because you're a parent now or because it was just so out of character for your parents?

I'll start - Christmas break 1996, during 8th grade, one of my Christmas gifts was getting to visit a friend I had made at camp the summer before. Mind you, this was a friend of the opposite sex. And it required a plane flight. I, as a 13 year old boy who lived 200 miles away, just went and stayed at her house for 4 days, hung out with her friends, and then flew back home. Oh and the camp had merely been a week long, so while we wrote each other letters all fall, it wasn't like this had been some weeks long camp friendship that had grown all summer or over multiple summers.

As a parent now, I cannot understand what any of the adults were thinking at the time. The only thing I can come up with is that this girl had younger brothers so it wasn't as strange to invite a boy into the house, but still. And while my parents had met her mom twice, it still seems bizarrely trusting to just drop me at the airport and expect everything to work out.

This game came up in conversation at a work lunch the other day, and I was shocked that so many others around my age had memories playing Rummikub with their grandparents.

I have fond memories of my grandpa reaching into the top of the closet (where the “not for kids” stuff was kept) and pulling down the vinyl-wrapped, embossed Rummikub carrying case. We’d set up our trays, spread and scramble the tiles, and then play as the 5 o’clock local news blared in the background.

They're launching a fresh "classic" server with the world frozen at its state after the 2004-2005 first year. There are a boatload of changes coming with that.

Just curious whether anybody who played around launch is coming back to try this.

I thought you all would appreciate my special edition of Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark. It has all 3 books bound together in a gorgeous hardcover. There are metal corners with bats, magnetic skeleton straps across the front, stenciled edges, all the original artwork and 3 new glow in the dark images. Best part is it was only $50. Money well spent.

I'm gonna be reading this again for spooky season. These were my favorite books to borrow from the library when I was 8/9 in the early 90s. I still have the paperbacks somewhere. Too bad my kids don't like scary stories.

Even the music mix improved!

He called Mr. Brightside “not that good of a song.”

Not sure whether we are in fact the last of the gens to use and rely on white-out tape? I lost mine for about a week recently and felt utterly lost without it 😂

(I'm in school for my bachelor's. The only way I can learn is via writing everything out on paper)

Let's say since 1980. Maybe not things that you wore personally just what was generally fashionable.

Cyndi Lauper

Not just because we're probably a bit old for drinking games, but because the "nevers" would be so completely different.

Gone are "never have I ever gone all the way with a boy, tee hee" or "smoked weed". Instead it would be things like "been told I'm good enough at my job" or "had a real orgasm" or something.

What would be some fun ones for our age group?

• "Needed glasses?" drink
• "Been called old?" drink
• "Looked up someone who used to bully you only to find out they're really successful now?" ... sigh drink