nostalgia

I’ve had computers for a long time now. Many things have changed. I used to hear all sorts of sounds from my computers that aren’t there any more.

Today has been one of those rainy and foggy winter days. Tonight it’s got me remembering hearing the fog horns on ships once in a while growing up not too far from the Delaware river.

I happened to see a link to an old recording of Action News from Philly. It brought back plenty of memories. My mom always turned on the news in the morning and evening.

We came across an old unlabeled CD-r in the attic. II had to see what is on it, if anything. I was hoping for some forgotten pictures or something, but sadly, it was just a backup of the Windows 98 CD.

I have been listening to Alice in Chains’ old stuff live on YouTube. Layne Staley was so talented.

I’ve done my share of stupid things relating to computers. I learn by doing and that means I do break things sometimes. I’m remembering the time I deleted the DLL files to free up hard disk space.

Hearing from an old friend I was reminding me of hunting season up the mountains.

I have been hearing quite a few wrens singing outside. It’s really bringing back the fond memories of summer days up the mountains with Nan and Pop.

Today is a much cooler day compared the the hot and humid weather we’ve been having. It certainly made working out a lot nicer than it has been.

Today has been much cooler and drier than it has been. It really reminds me of going to the mountains when I was a kid, where the evenings were much cooler than the Philly suburbs.

It looks and feels like snow today. It reminds me of hanging out with the guys up the mountains for buck season. Being visually impaired I did not hunt, but I did eat, drink and play cards.

Today I stumbled across the winamp skin museum and that brought back the memories of using that program to play mp3s that I’d downloaded from napster and mp3.com. I descovered and purchased a tone olf music because of that.

The other day I got a message on Facebook from an old friend from the mountains daughter. I got his phone number and called him and we caught up. Hopefully after the pandemic we can hang out in person. It was great to hear from them.

Every once in a while I see a post that reminds me of old school ECW that was based in Philly. I really enjoyed watching that from the time I stumbled on it on some TV channel in the middle of the night.

I wish I still had my old video game systems. They were a lot of fun and like a lot of older games a bit more than newer ones. Sadly I gave them away. The one guy said his kids would like one of them so I gave it to him taking the chance it might bring them some joy. I’d bet he was an addict. The very next day he bragged about how much he sold it for.

Something reminded me of all my cactuses when I was in elementary school. I loved plants and growing them. Cactus and succulents were my favorites because they were different.

When I was in high school we went to East Windsor race track most Friday’s because some guy my dad worked with raced there. Shortly after that my dad tried racing. He went to Bridgeport, never went fast but it was fun. I found a picture of his car recently