I’ve always thought it odd how I have some memories that are crystal clear, and so many large portions of my past life that are gone, escaped from my consciousness, buried deep in my brain somewhere maybe but I don’t know how to access them. QUICK: What was I doing on September 3, 1997? No idea. I’ll never be able to tell you.
But I can tell you that one summer afternoon when I was about 5 or 6 years old I went to the kitchen to pour myself a big cup of Kool-aid and the pitcher was quite full and I was rather small and, well, the delicious sticky red beverage went all over the floor. And I remember thinking two things: 1) That’s a lot of Kool-aid on the floor and 2) Mom doesn’t like it when we waste things. Those two thoughts led to my next choice, which is why Mom walked in to find me on my hands and knees, licking that Kool-aid off the kitchen floor.
She was horrified, but honestly, she kept a really clean kitchen so it was probably fine.
Greg Moore September 3, 1997 – I was back in class after the Labor Day holiday in my first year of college. I was still saving up to buy a bicycle so I had to leave my dorm early to walk to my classes across campus; my portable CD player held like a pizza box the whole way because it was too old to have much skip protection.
annie's micro(b)log @gregmoore love this crystal clear memory (and ohhh the portable cd players, how I remember)
Greg Moore I had to share since you just happened to pick a date I remembered. 🙂 I went through a couple of portable CD players that year, each somehow cheaper but with longer skip protection. It helped that bigass pants were in style so I could fit them into my massive pockets. In September of the following year, I replaced the CD players with the very first portable mp3 player.
annie's micro(b)log @gregmoore Technology influencing fashion: Bigass pants popularity driven by the need to have somewhere to stick that book-size music player. What a time to be alive