It finally happened, everyone. After six months of taking up the Open Forum mantle for Thursdays, I completely forgot about setting up the morning’s post until the very last minute.
I went to bed a merry man, filled with a weird but palatable mix of red sangria and vermouth, taking it down after a late-night session of the newly-acquired Everspace on the Switch, fresh from a warm shower. Then, as is customary for our cat to do at the time of Way Too Early, she bothered me awake to give her breakfast. With that done, I laid back in bed to get those final hours of shut-eye before the workday begins.
A couple of minutes after that was when I finally realized that something was missing between the mild alcohol consumption and the end-of-day showers. Oh shit, I thought in a fit of embarrassment, as my mind finally recalled the task that I had left behind.
So here I am, hashing this out at 6 in the morning with proverbial egg on my face. Complete with the world’s worst MS Paint rendering of a clock, put together by yours truly with love and panic in a last-ditch effort to not piss off the Shutterstock gods with what was going to be the original image.
It’s been an emotionally weird, rough past couple of weeks for me, personally speaking. So if something like this was just eventually going to happen no matter how mindful and diligent I was, this week right here was going to be the week for that.
Hopefully I’m back into the groove one week from now.
Today’s questions:
- Regale us, my fellow people, with tales of the most mortifying times that you found yourself remembering or doing something at the last minute!
- Anything that you loved back in the day that, upon revisiting it, is still just as good? My wife recently re-experienced George Orwell’s Animal Farm in library-provided audiobook form, and from the bits I overheard, it still totally holds up.
- On the flip side, what stuff has aged a bit more poorly upon rediscovery?
And, as always, Talk Amongst Yourselves!
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Ditto to DisturbedShadow with Mass Effect. For books, Redwall was a series i read as a kid. I recently went back and read one for some light reading and it was still enjoyable even as an adult. I also started re-reading the Wheel of Time. The books are just as good as when I was a teen, if not better!
On the flip side, what stuff has aged a bit more poorly upon rediscovery?
Most PS2 games...
There are quite a few that do not hold up by today's standards though. Games that are overly difficult for no reason. She used to love playing Rocko's Modern Life: Spunky's Dangerous Day when she was a kid so we bought a copy and oh man is it hard. I understand they went for difficulty to expand the play time then but it makes it hard to revisit some games today when we're not used to it anymore.