Here are some things that I look back on and wonder about:

• Remember back in college when staying up practically all night, most nights was normal and didn't almost kill you? I have to say that I am still a night owl, always was, and will probably always be that way to some degree, but I now have trouble staying up past 1 AM. And then if I had stayed up that late, I have to sleep until about 8 AM to have a good day the next day.

• What about those people who you once were (you thought) great friends with, and were never going to lose touch with? I can't even count the number of people that I have not kept up with over the years. Do you ever find yourself sitting there and all of a sudden something reminds you of an old friend and you just wonder where they are now and what they are doing. You know you should just try to look them up and drop them a line, that they would surely like to hear from you, but you just can't bring yourself to do anything. For me, it is the problem of thinking that I don't have much to show for the time that has past, and not wanting them to think what a loser I am.

• What ever happened to Saturday morning cartoons? I remember getting up at the crack of dawn to be down in front of the TV even before the first show started. I didn't want to miss Muppet Babies or even Garfield & Friends. These days there is nothing more than info-mercials and things like that on Saturday mornings on network TV. I know, because I check every once in a while, just hoping that I might find a little of that comforting feeling of my childhood once more. I am sure that the change has come from all the new networks like Cartoon Network and the Disney Channel where there are cartoons on most of the time. But what about all the kids who don't have cable TV? What do they get? Nothing! How fair is that?

My brain seems to have shut off for now. I think it might be from the trauma of remembering those good old days of the morning cartoons that were so much a part of my childhood and how no one will ever have that again. Those were, most definitely, the days...

¶ 1:19 PM