all the way to April without doing it, then I slipped up. Sometimes it has happened in January.How about you? What’s your record for how long into a new year have you g... moreall the way to April without doing it, then I slipped up. Sometimes it has happened in January.How about you? What’s your record for how long into a new year have you gone without writing the wrong year’s date?~
For me, freshly-popped popcorn, stale popcorn, freshly-roasted peanuts still in their shells, real-love animals and what they deposited on the ground, the canvas tents, etc.... more For me, freshly-popped popcorn, stale popcorn, freshly-roasted peanuts still in their shells, real-love animals and what they deposited on the ground, the canvas tents, etc.
Just in time for the new year, I stumbled across this yesterday, and I have decided to implement it beginning two days from now. I plan to report the results if we&rsq... more Just in time for the new year, I stumbled across this yesterday, and I have decided to implement it beginning two days from now. I plan to report the results if we’re all still here on January 1st, 2021.~
Cell phones, mobile phones, smartphones, whatever you want to call them, almost everyone on the planet has one nowadays, even youngsters of single digit age. There are... more Cell phones, mobile phones, smartphones, whatever you want to call them, almost everyone on the planet has one nowadays, even youngsters of single digit age. There are millions of people alive today who don’t know what life was like or could be like without those phones. There are also millions of other people who remember very well what life was like before those types of phones ever existed: you and I. Let’s collectively compile a list of things that involve telephones as they were when you and I were growing up, things that the whippersnappers don’t know about, things that show a comparison between then and now. I’ll start:
1. All of the members of an entire family had exactly one home telephone number, which would remain the same for years, decades even. Forgetting your own phone number was as probable as forgetting your own name.2. There were no telephones sold in stores, they were the property of the telephone company, which supplied you with y... less
