Toys

Angry Vixen recently posted an entry about toys that one had really, really wanted when they were kids and the weight it carries now as a parent.

Abby, for example, has all of the My Little Pony toys that Rachel used to have when she was a little girl. On the other hand, I have none of the toys I used to have a child--a fact which I am still bitter and unforgiving to my mother about, but that's a whole another set of entries or perhaps a whole other journal about. Anyway, it also got me to thinking about the toys I used to have. The Atari 5200 system--that I just killed hours upon hours that could have been spent learning how to interact with others or say, exercising--is one that comes to mind. Another one was our Timex Sinclair 1000 which I loved, but our cassette decks did not--see, the software came on cassettes. Yeah, cassettes.

A few years back Rachel sold off my Super Nintendo Entertainment system in a garage sale, along with all the games I had amassed through my stint at the mom and pop video store I used to work at. I must add that I was asleep during said garage sale. I sincerely hope the young girl's psyche wasn't too horribly damaged from Mortal Kombat II and 3 that her grandma unsuspectingly bought for her.

I don't know about you, but I'm still big about toys, and hope I remember to save the ones that Abby and Jon really like for later years--until they choose to get rid of them or not.

Now I want to listen to The Happy Worker and The Closing of The Year.

Ms. Kitty

Here she is. Cute, hmm? Hmm?



Yeah, that image is a bit blurry, but this was really a test post anyway. I'll have to take a better pic of her sometime.

Ahhhhhhhhhhh!

So here we are...but I still feel the same.

Still, I've now made a committment and can perhaps be more liable to do more with my LJ.

Hmmm

I don't know which is more sad...how long ago it was that I saw Iron Maiden and Ace Frehley in concert at the Hollywood Sportatorium--in support of the Seventh Son of a Seventh Son album, I believe--or the fact that I actually went to go see the show. Hey...I was a Teenage Dirtbag.

Oh my GOSH! I just found out what date that was: 5 August 1988!

I ♥ the 'net!

NS-13

Oh yeah, I forgot the other upcoming change--not an earth shattering event, but I mention it nonetheless.

Only four more days until NS-13!

Fonts!

Via Kottke.

"Peter Saville, the British designer closely associated with Factory Records, is offering free downloads of some of the fonts he used in designing record sleeves and other work for New Order, Joy Division, and other Factory Records artists."

Nifty, to say the least.

Poor Rachel

I'm off to Wal-Mart for supplies, since Rachel and the sun combined don't tan in as much as they burn--even with the SPF protection she had. It must have run out, I suppose

Abby and Jon tanned for the most part.