...fifteen years; literally a generation ago...

...my family ethnicity is mostly ulster scot, english/celt/french mutts who emigrated stateside before the american revolution; i've worked crews where i was the only english speaker and they all presumed i was argentinian...

...okay, that's pretty f*ckin' rad...

...we used to have this hybrid see-saw / merry-go-round thing where pumping the two crossed see-saws advanced a central rotation mechanism on great exposed child-chewing gears...

...yeah, my wife tells me some stations have started disabling the two-o'clock mute button; haven't encountered one yet but the day i do is the day i start carrying an icepick to mute those speakers the old-fashioned way...

...halloween candy bowl...