Where to start. Let's get the feeling like a kid again stuff out of the way. Only some of this was intentional, while some of it was unintentional, but still felt fun.
#1.) I had not 1 but 2 Burger King cheeseburgers today. I haven't had Burger King in about a year (See, I generally avoid fast food at all costs unless it is an absolute emergency...and if you have seen my ass lately, it looks like I'm a regular at the Chaska ER). But I can rationalize this one. See I had an appointment today, a very good appointment as it turned out and I was running late. I had to get home from Eagan, change down into business casual clothes, drive to the Park & Ride, and hop on the next bus into the city for my new job. I had zero time to grab anything for lunch and my stomach was already clamoring like a junkie (Way to go Kashi whole grain, “I look like dry catfood” breakfast cereal). So my only really option was to grab a couple burgers and maw those sonsabitches as I drove home to save time. Which leads to...
#2.) Playing Hooky. When I got home and changed as fast as I could, I looked at my bus schedule and realized the afternoon buses only pickup on the hour. It was 12:09. I missed the noon bus and getting on the 1:00 bus would not help me get to my new job in the city for an important 1:00 meeting. So much for my blazing speed attempt at changing – sorry floorboards. So I called my boss on day two of the job and told him I missed the bus and probably wouldn't make it in time for the meeting. No problem he said. He set me up with a conference bridge to call in and participate remotely. I think he was more at ease and okay with it since they hadn't setup my computer and access yet. So it would have been another payday for reading, anyway. So even though the new boss was okay with it, it still felt good skip out. Even if this new job was important.
#3.) I played a ditty on a casio keyboard. Yay!
So we recently signed up for Netflix's instant movie downloads via the Wii and let me tell you, that is the future for movies and televsion shows. Though they need to tighten a few of the screws, because when you download Muppets From Space, you expect to get all 1 hour and 32 minutes of it, not just the first 52 minutes. Now I'll never know if Gonzo found his ancestors or not!
Anyway, I bring this up because the kids were scrolling through the options after homework tonight and I was amazed to find the first season of the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. The kids of course reacted exactly how I figured they would - “What the heck is this crap?”
I told them to have some patience and watch it – Rocky and Bullwinkle accidentally make a high-powered rocket fuel from Grandma Moose's chocolate cake recipe. Everyone wanted the recipe: the government, Boris and Natasha and even the moon men, one of whom had an itchy scrooch finger. Yeah, scrooch.
From the soaring flying squirrel sound effects to Boris' thick Russian accent to Bullwinkle's signature voice, I felt transported back to childhood, where I never fully understood the jokes in the cartoons, but damn a talking moose – that's funny shit. Back then I never picked up on the metrosexuality of Mr. Peabody, the satire of the cold war or the commercial irony of the fractured fairy tales, but I do now. And you know what still gets me – that damn talking moose and how he could never pull the rabbit out of his hat. I'm sure the new reboot would follow up that bit with a fresh Viagra ad.
That's what's nice about thinking about the past. Sure their was a commercial footprint in the world, but it at least kept its distance.
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