The hair on and inside your ears

The size of the steak you order decreases by about 2 ounces every decade (if you are still ordering steak)

when you're still buying CDs instead of downloading your music

Or the more rare "poppy red" -

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Here is the part they clipped off...

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I remember the Chevy Show! We went to Six Flags with the whole family in 1976. That was the year the Screaming Eagle Roller Coaster, the tallest and fastest Roller Coaster in the world at the time opened. I was either too short or young to ride it, but by older brother did, and they gave out metal badges that season proclaiming you rode the Screaming Eagle.

The Chevy Show had bench seating with no backs. I remember the last part was as if you were driving down the road, first person, and at the very end you went around a curve and there was a stopped Chevy (Corvette?) in front of you and the camera abruptly stopped behind it. I was startled and flew backwards, arms flailing and I took my Dad down with me. The entire place roared with laughter!

Well that made me feel a little younger, I still had two plates this year. I did skip breakfast though so I would have enough room

Wow, looks good! Evidently they have come a long way since I have last did a paint by number - I remember doing something like this

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Your getting the Shingrix (shingles) series of vaccine and the COVID series two weeks apart (minimum time between). Started the Shingrix first not thinking I would be getting COVID one for a while. Just got the second Shingrix yesterday (crappy weekend ahead) and second COVID in two weeks on Friday (same crappy weekend I am sure).

My wife told me something like that too but I wasn't paying attention - I will give it a try, thanks

Yes it was much worse than the COVID. My second COVID, just tired the next day, no fever no chills. Went down for the count with the second Shingrix.

Double down. Dutch Oven

I just bought two new WiFi garage door openers that will work with Alexa so I can ask "Alexa, is the garage door shut?" Yes, I am not afraid to use technology as a memory crutch

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You have to give it a security code I think so the bullhorn won't work. Yes the sensor could go bad but that is less likely than me forgetting if I closed it or not!

Clearest night sky I have seen was when I was in Afghanistan. First real good look at the Milky Way. This is an internet picture, not one I took, but one of the Afghan Sky and yes it really looks like this - Outside of the major cities, almost no night pollution at all combined with the higher elevations and no cloud cover.

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Class of 1983 - we have a lost a few over the years including some very recent cancer victims (and those that have made it through that). There is probably more but a surprising large number of my classmates keep in touch via Facebook. That is one of the reasons I kept my account though I am not really active.

Tell the wife you are never going to believe this, they called back and said they found one in the back room, but I need to pick it up now. Get in car, go to the right store and pick it up

Sister's wedding -$50k divorced
My wedding $1,500 (including reception with a band) - wife/bridesmaids made their dresses, made the flowers, etc. Biggest expense was photographer. 37 years, still going strong.

It has never bothered me because I don't think it is about me, it is an acknowledgement of the value of the military in protecting the country, a sentiment that has not always been shared by the public. I happen to be wearing the uniform and therefore get the accolade, but I think it represents something bigger. I know most who say it, even as a reflex now, it makes them feel better, and why wouldn't I want people to feel good they recognized the value a strong military brings to our society? It is why I don't argue when someone buys my lunch (as a senior officer, I can afford my own lunch just fine). I politely say no, it is ok the first time only they offer. They almost always insist, and they go away happy that I didn't insult their generosity (and they get to feel good about themselves and the military all day).

For the few (and it is very few) who say it out of social obligation but don't mean it, well I get to feel good they had to acknowledge some things are bigger than them.

And @cottonm4, I never quantify or qualify anyone's service, whether they deployed, served 2 years or 20 years, went to war, stayed in the states, was a mechanic or infantryman, went in to service for the college money or true patriotism. LTG has it right - you raise your hand and put on the uniform, served honorable always knowing you might get a call serve more. So thank you for your service, really, especially since it was during a time when not a lot of people were saying it.

Sorry for the long oration, I retire from the National Guard at the end of the month after 37 years of active and reserve service here and abroad, so it is weighing on my mind right now. Ready to retire, but going to miss a life time of service, especially with what is going on in the world right now.

Didn't see it IMAX but the movie was terrific, very glad to see it in the theater.

Had to look - $5.32 @ HD today. 4X8 zipboard $43.85 - both down from their highs but still double from 2 years ago...

All this talk of Lawrence Welk has reminded me of Hee Haw - at least the the lady's were pretty good looking on that show

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Well not all of them. Some of those dumbshits never made it past the "hold my beer" phase.

My former dentist and I were on the same page on a lot of issues, and that was nice. He retired and sold his practice to a group, so I wasn't sure as we left a group practice previously for being a revolving dentist door.

However, just had a crown put in, only partially covered by insurance, but it came in less than the estimate because the new dentist got it done without having to go too deep. Quick and easy. She is younger but did a great job, and it looks like she will be sticking around a while. Probably don't have as much in common, but honesty and competency go a long way.

Bought our first house while in College in 1988 - 10.5% interest rate, no money down (VA Loan). We were THRILLED to get 10.5%. Last mortgage we had, 3.24%.

That is $1,000 a square foot. Crazy. My house is that market would be unaffordable.

At least that one comes with an ocean view (and a railroad track, that is interesting and not in a good way)

Here is one aircraft that I can honestly say I took off in far more times than landing in back in the early 80s. Ultimately I logged a lot of hours in a C130 over the past 40 years, the air frame is nearly 70 years old and still going strong. Have to say though, the service onboard was not up to standards. The toilet was a can behind a curtain.

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When you know who Jim Jones was and where that saying came from.

We had a couple of the Chipmunks albums. Their Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer was also released as a single in 1960 and it went to #21 on the Billboard top hits.

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While I do think overall since the 90s there has been a drop in reported crime, I also know the FBI compiles this from local law enforcement submittals, which have been at an all time low (compliance in the 1990s was in the high 90s percent, it was just over half by the deadline for 2021). Like most complex issues, statistics seldom provide the whole story (one of my favorite books is How to Lie with Statistics, written in 1954, so using caution when reviewing statistics has always been prudent) . It has been estimated that over half of violent crimes go unreported to law enforcement, which then would never show up in this report at all (another statistic frequently reported for which I do not have a source).

Bottom line here is always the same - if you or someone you know has been a victim of a violent crime, all the statistics in the world won't change that fact. And when we hear empirically about seemingly random ones (wrong place wrong time), we can all put ourselves in those shoes.

I use adblock plus in Firefox. Lately if I leave Youtube up too long, I will get the adblockers violate their terms yada yada message. I just exit the browser completely and come back in, and are good to go again. If a content creator I am following does an in video ad, I usually watch it to help them out, they don't get credit if you skip over it.

I was your upvote - still a kid in the 70s and some of this I probably wasn't fully aware of at the time, but certainly later as someone who appreciates history.

But I do remember CB radios, Convoys, Breaker Breaker 1-9 and all of that.

I remember going to see Smokey and the Bandit at the theater with my step-dad, who almost never went to the movies. I have never seen him laugh so much which was almost as cool to see as the movie itself.

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It was definitely on a print ad....

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