I’m 53 now, and could easily draw a map of the 2 houses that I lived in as a kid between 5 and 18 years old, along with most of the 10 or so houses I’ve lived in as an adult (a couple were very short term as a young adult, and I’m kind of vague on the exact layouts).

Before 3 years old I don’t remember much, a couple of vague things that could just be from pictures of me in those houses, rather than real memories. I kind of remember some of the house from 4 - 5 years old.

We use AnyList, with the annual family subscription (really worth the $14 a year).

It includes recipes (including an import plugin for browsers), shopping list, and meal planning.

I can’t find it now, but I saw a video just yesterday of a lady with one hand chopping onions and some other items. She had an implement on the counter with pins facing upward that she could stick half an onion on while cutting it.

I’ll keep and eye out for it, but in the meantime searching for “one handed cooking” on youtube will get you a ton of interesting things, from gadgets to methods of dealing with prep.

Yea, the 2012 build was a 3770k with 16 gb ram, multiple SSDs, a GTX680, etc. So it was a pretty fast machine back in the day.

I upgraded the video card and SSD drives several times, just didn’t have the budget to replace it all at once for a long time.

Minus the case and video card, I have an entire 3rd gen i7 machine sitting in a box that would actually make a pretty good machine for a lot of different uses.

Same … I hadn’t upgraded since 2012, and had some extra cash, so rebuilt in August. Feeling pretty lucky to have done it then, and really glad I went ahead and put 64GB RAM in it.

I’m that old too!

But that’s way before I started real online gaming, where Vent was during the peak of my online gaming days.

Granted he does have a full beard and has a ridiculously deep voice

Reminds me of my high school buddy that had a beard / deep voice, and looked just like his older brother. He would use his brother’s old drivers license to buy beer and smokes for us.

Thanks.

Looks like it has improved quite a bit over the years.

As an old: You kids and your TeamSpeak … back in my day Ventrilo, and we were happy to have it! (uphill both ways or something about my lawn).

It may have changed since then, but after my dad left the USAF in the early '80s, my mom was a civilian employee on the base for a bunch of years, and we didn’t have access to any of the additional benefits. I know that we couldn’t go to Aaffes, the Px, or use any base services. Not sure about retirement / insurance at that time, but we certainly didn’t take advantage of insurance if it was available.

About the only thing we had access to was some of the Recreation services: My mom worked at Arts and Crafts, and that was attached to the Auto Hobby and Wood Shop so they let employees use those facilities, along with the place where we could rent lawnmowers and other recreation equipment.