Blast from the Past

[dwig]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Here along the I-5 corridor of Washington, ...

The wife and I headed the other way when, after living in TX for over 40 years, we pulled up stakes and headed for someplace warm and sunny. The software company outside of Dallas that I worked for began to throw in the towel, so we sold our house and 2/3rds of the stuff in it and drove east until we ran out of road and then south until we again ran out of road. While most things here are expensive, we only spend $150 or so a year on gasoline and I can walk to work in the dead of winter in shorts and a T-shirt, only occasionally needing a long sleeve shirt.

Originally Posted by dwig

The wife and I headed the other way when, after living in TX for over 40 years, we pulled up stakes and headed for someplace warm and sunny. The software company outside of Dallas that I worked for began to throw in the towel, so we sold our house and 2/3rds of the stuff in it and drove east until we ran out of road and then south until we again ran out of road. While most things here are expensive, we only spend $150 or so a year on gasoline and I can walk to work in the dead of winter in shorts and a T-shirt, only occasionally needing a long sleeve shirt.

Sounds like you live in a high humidity and flat land with lots of alligators and pythons! Not to mention retirees who eat dinner at 4:00pm.

[Poodlemom1]

Originally Posted by crich70

Plus California has earthquakes and the ground being eroded from underfoot to deal with. Of course here in the midwest we have the occasional tornado warning and sometimes actual tornado's so no matter where you live there is something weather wise that can cause trouble.

Or come to Oklahoma and have both tornadoes and earthquakes


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[wodin]

In my drinking days the only movies I would go to were drive ins. It was hard to smuggle a cooler full of beer into an indoor theater. Now that I don't drink, I was chagrined to find some theaters that actually sell beer at the concession stand.

[wodin]

Originally Posted by crich70

Probably the weather also depends on the part of the state too doesn't it? I have heard that the weather varies depending on where you are in Texas.

Or the next valley over, and if it's Ewa side or Diamond Head side.

[dwig]

Originally Posted by jswinden

Sounds like you live in a high humidity and flat land with lots of alligators and pythons! Not to mention retirees who eat dinner at 4:00pm.

I live at the top of the highest hill in Key West proper (the old dump on the next island is in the city limits and is higher), but I'm only 18' above sea level making it rather flat.

One the other hand, the "4 o'clock dinner crowd" doesn't migrate this far south as a rule. They rarely get within 100 miles of here, preferring the mainland's vast number of theme restaurants to the small quirky one-offs found in the Keys.

The alligators (there are only a few), crocs, and pythons generally prefer the more rural Keys instead of the more urban Key West. The major invasive pest here are the iguanas. On the plus side, our range of "backyard" birds include ibis and several types of heron. Myriads of types of gulls, brown pelicans, magnificent frigate birds, white crowned pigeons, turkey vultures, cooper's hawks, and osprey are regularly seen from my porch and on my walk to work.

[cromag]

This counts a Blast from the Past for me! <HERE>

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by cromag

This counts a Blast from the Past for me! <HERE>

Couldn't tell you the name of the song, but I was listening to it just recently.

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Couldn't tell you the name of the song, but I was listening to it just recently.

Don't Stop Believing by Journey. Great song!

[drjd]

Just found this while cleaning some of my old boxes of stuff:



The poor thing is not working anymore but it made me remember my old days of late 70's as a proud owner of a 'calculator' in my college days. This Casio fx31 had a green LED display and abilities of so called 'scientific' calculations. I do remember the group of curious girls giggling and gathering to see the calculator and the jealous frown from other boys of the class.

Good old days!

Originally Posted by drjd

Just found this while cleaning some of my old boxes of stuff:



The poor thing is not working anymore but it made me remember my old days of late 70's as a proud owner of a 'calculator' in my college days. This Casio fx31 had a green LED display and abilities of so called 'scientific' calculations. I do remember the group of curious girls giggling and gathering to see the calculator and the jealous frown from other boys of the class.

Good old days!

In college during the same time frame of the mid to late 1970s I had a Texas Instruments calculator with red LED display. Sure beat the slide ruler I used in HS! A few years later in the early 1980s I bought a Radio Shack TRS-80 Pocket Computer and the printer module and cassette recorder on which you saved the programming. It was actually my first programmable computer, though basically just a beefed up calculator. However it had BASIC built into it so you could program some simple apps. I'm not sure what happened to it. I saw it last about 10 to 15 years ago. Probably threw it away...

[tubemonkey]

In the 70s, I used to wear a Seiko slide rule watch. I was real fast with it for multiplication and division, especially figuring out unit pricing while shopping.

I still have it in a box somewhere so I'm not sure if this is the exact model I have, but it looks like it.

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

In the 70s, I used to wear a Seiko slide rule watch. I was real fast with it for multiplication and division, especially figuring out unit pricing while shopping.

I still have it in a box somewhere so I'm not sure if this is the exact model I have, but it looks like it.

That is really cool! Well it would have been when I could have actually seen the dials back in the 1970s. Now a days I would have to use a powerful magnifying glass to read the dials!

[crich70]

Back in the 1970's this was a cool thing:
Simple pleasures for a simpler time.

[drjd]

Originally Posted by crich70

Back in the 1970's this was a cool thing:
Simple pleasures for a simpler time.

A piece of pleasant childhood memories indeed!

My dad had brought me one Spirograph with a lot of color ball pen refills and stack of paper during late 60's which I enjoyed for many long years. It was a very addictive toy for me then.