This Week’s Highlight

March 24th, 2006General4 comments

Last Saturday: Eating hamburgers with my dad at Carl’s Jr.; he says re: french fries, “You shouldn’t eat too many of those, they’re bad for you.” In the background a Spanish soap opera was playing on television, the guacamole in my six dollar burger was pretty darned good, and it was all pretty nice, this every day moment.

My dad has subscribed to Time Magazine since the early Paleolithic period. Every time he renewed his subscription they would send him a new tchotchky as a reward.

So when I was a kid I had this Time Magazine calculator watch. It was one of my favorite things in the whole world. Wearing it made me feel smart. Prepared!

I don’t know whatever happened to that watch. I can still remember the distinct electronic chirp it would make when you pushed its squishy buttons.

Anyway, nostalgia and the recent death of my pocket calculator (from being sat on too much while in my back pocket) have combined to lead me to purchase a new calculator watch off of Amazon.

It was $24. Anyone who tells you that a “man’s watch says everything about him” is usually trying to sell you a $600 watch.

Now when I look at the time, calculate the tip, or figure out color percentages, I can remember simpler days — when Reagan was our president, Kadaffi was our Osama, and I spent a lot of my time upgrading my Bard’s Tale characters with a hex editor.

Though I feel more in control of my own life now than ever, it’s nice to remember a moment in my life when I wasn’t responsible for everything — when I still had a bed time.

Also computer games sometimes had no graphics.