Fighting a Case of the Mondays with My Embarrassing Younger Self
Unfortunately, we’ve all suffered a Case of the Mondays – I don’t want its ugliness contaminating my entire day, let alone my week so I’m gonna do something about it.
How it works: Every Monday, I’m gonna share one of my favorite things and a short description of why I love it. Do the same by leaving one of your favorite things – anything – in the comments. It doesn’t really matter what it is as long as it qualifies as being a personal favorite.
Here’s mine…
This weekend, I was going through some old pictures and stumbled across a few from when I was a kid. Most them were nothing to speak of – pictures from birthdays, holidays, and other things my family and I did when I was young.
But I stumbled across one little gem that I couldn’t pass up.
I was hesitant to even share this thing, but then I realized this may actually help people.
I figured looking at this would give some hope to those that feel they may never get over whatever wardrobe malfunction they’re experiencing. If I can get past things like the haircut and the over sized t-shirt (that would probably fit me here at 12 years later), you’re gonna be fine.
Oh man. So much of my childhood consisted of CRT monitors and floppy disks.
This is a great picture. It makes me want to go back and see if there are any in the archives like that for me.
I was having a conversation with my dad not to long ago. We were on our way to go buy myself a MBP and him a MBP. We were talking about when he was my age and how the only thing he ever bough that cost over a $1000 was a car. He was telling me how there really wasn’t anything to invest in technology wise that would have a return. Fast forward to present day and we were spending well over $1000 but he realized that these tools were going to be invested and have a return.
He told me about how when I was a kid, around the age of 13, that he intentionally bought a computer only for the reason that I could use it and get familiar with how it worked. He had no clue how important that was to present day.
The picture says so much, because that was the beginning of your career right there.
And don’t worry, I wore the same sized shirt and had the same haircut.
Your in good company.
When I was a kid and was interested in getting into computer programming, I remember my Dad calling me into his office one afternoon saying “I don’t know if you’ll go anywhere with this, but I want you to have enough stuff to help you get started.”
He handed me a couple of books and my first compiler. It has been all downhill since then.
I LOVE that I knew you back then. You were the friend who was good with computers and was learning to play guitar (be still, my 13 year old heart). So glad you’re now the husband who is still good with computers and rocks out on guitar. And so much more.
xoxo
~Meghan
ps-no one makes great fashion choices when they are 13.
Heck yeah, man. Computers, guitars, lawn mowers, and vacuum cleaners. My repertoire is one that should not be mocked.
Just keep me away from the kitchen.
Wow. I’m old.
My first computer —> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Color_Computer
No drives. I lost all my “programs” when the power went off and had to write them again, hand-coded from a magazine.
Chris
We had an Apple IIe but I was too young to really do anything beyond place the basic games. I do remember the dual floppy disk drives, though. And the ridiculously heavy keys on the keyboard.
What really gets me is that our current phones are more powerful than our PC’s were just 10 years ago.