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This is new feature I’m going to try. It’s called “I Remember” and I’m basically lifting the concept directly from Andy Detskas, which I found via 2020 Hindsight. I’m adapting it to my needs. As you will find out, my past is kind of weird. I am disabling comments as this is more of a passive thing then an interactive thing. Enjoy!

I remember in 3rd grade, I didn’t want to go class that day. So I stayed out in the hall with my mom, with my Tintin book. I think it may have been Red Rackham’s Treasure. My mom had to leave at some point. She had a meeting or something. I remember crying and the principal from our school coming out. Her name was Zoe. I remember she knew something about Tintin and said she had some tracing paper and I could trace stuff out of the book. I never did trace anything. But I remembered she liked Tintin.

When I was around 7 maybe, my Dad, my brother and myself drove for a long time in the off white ‘84 Toyota 4×4. We then took a train ride with open-air cars. As we crossed over a bridge, a man pointed out a big foot print in the sand. “Look at the Big Foot print, over there!” the man said to me. That was the first time I heard about Big Foot. I don’t think I believed him. On the way home, we hit a dear.

I remember was in eight grade at Billings Middle School. Our class was small, just 13 students (if you count Sully). I had never heard of the game and only a few people hadn’t played it (myself being one). I went out of the room and waited for them to come and bring me back so I could diagnose their problem. I came back and I started asking questions and I couldn’t stop laughing. I don’t know why, but it was so funny.

I remember going into a class room with our 8mm video camera and taking video so I could look back at it later. Although I don’t think I ever did. I think I just wanted to make a video. I didn’t go back to AEII for 5th/6th grade.

I remember that I was around 4 or 5 years old (I think) and I was at an amusement park with my friend Eric Boyd and his dad, Tom. And we were going to meet up with my dad, but we couldn’t find him. So we paged him. I was upset.

I was in the 5th grade at Bryant Elementary. We had these large, tall, green lockers. I thought I might be able to fit in one. I was right.

I remember in the fourth grade, at Perkins Elementary, if you didn’t turn everything in completely correct, you would get what was effectively detention for Friday afternoon while the other kids got to watch videos or play games. And you wouldn’t find out if you were perfect until Friday at lunch, when you got either a Caveman (meaning “detention”) or a “21 Crayon Salute” (how cheesy is that). One week, I got a Caveman and I was convinced that I turned everything in and someone was “out to get me” or something. I literally stormed out of the classroom (with a very large fuss) and marched down to the office and cried. It still gets me all rilled up inside to this day.

10/19 Update: I’m going to cut back on the “I Remeber” and only post one a week, on Monday’s.

There was a cement turtle at Dahl Playfield. It was a dark green. I remember crawling under it.

We played baseball in our backyard:
my brother, my neighbors (Eddie & Chris), and me

Home was in front of the brick wall,
First was the rockwall, next to the garden,
Second was the crack that marked the pathway,
Third was planter, next to the cliff.

We played two on two,
with lots of ghostrunners.

We played until the sun went behind the house,
past the trees, and out of sight.

We played until we couldn’t see,
and then we played no more.

I remeber playing Goldeneye on the Nintendo 64. I think I first played during a lunch break at school in 6th grade. It was the game to play until Halo came out. I think it would be cool to make a version of the original Goldeneye for Xbox 360 with the original graphics, especially now that Microsoft owns Rareware.