Mom always hid the Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies in the freezer behind the trout frozen in blocks of ice. The cookies were easy to find, though. There was not much else in the freezer and the cookies didn’t have didn’t have little tails sticking out of their boxes.
He has done okay. Pre-ACA (Obamacare) an medical mishap took all his college money, so he never got a degree. But, he taught himself to code, became an entreprenuer and has recently released a VR game on Meta, Playstation and Viveport.
They are 50% off the artificial list price. When they do go on sale, there will only be two dozen left—21 in size XS in mung green, 1 in size XXXL in puce, and 1 with a snag and a lipstick stain, size M in aubergine.
In northern Va, I remember spending cold winter nights in the 1960s, listening to rock & roll on the skip to WBZ from Boston, WABC from New York and WLS from Chicago. (But it was WWDC right here at home, that first played the Beatles.)
When I recently told my son about listening to music from far-distance radio stations, and about how ‘under-ground’ stations played rock music that the mainstream stations wouldn’t touch, he was amazed.
On the other hand, when the kid was about 12, we tried limiting his TV watching by refusing to let him have a TV in his room. He countered by cobbling together one from an old computer monitor and salvaged electrical components. To not stifle his ingenuity, we let him keep that TV.
There is a squirrel in the tree. Seagull is in the bottom right corner beside the farmer’s shoulder.