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Waxy Buildup
Jul. 23rd, 2007 11:30 pm"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein
I'm thinking with my upcoming birthday and my big trip into middle age (not the middle ages, that's what Renaissance Fairs are for), I probably need to go buy something expensive, silly, and something I'll possibly regret.
No, not that...I bought that last month, and frankly, I love it. No buyer's remorse there.
No. I really can't afford some shiny new sports car, or a motorcycle, or even a Segway (now that would be stupid). I know Chris wants a water-bike again, but that's Chris' thing not mine. We'll see about that in a few years. I don't need any new electronics or home theater or Playstation.
I guess it comes down to the other compensations for age...tattoos, piercings or leather. Hmm. I've never gotten a tattoo because I never found anything I wanted to have all the time on me (the extra weight was enough). Thank goodness I decided not to get the frat letters. I love my frat, but i don't need their letters on my ass.
Piercings make me squeamish and I don't know how well I'd heal after something like that. Love the look on some of you other boys, but I'm not sure it's me. Leather interests me, but I hate having to order the extra cow to cover me. It's expensive stuff that I would hardly wear, like my overalls or Utilikilt.
I find it interesting that I don't really collect anything anymore. i used to be a big collector, with probably my strangest collection being the Garfield Bookmarks. Remember when Garfield was funny? Yeah, in that couple of hours they managed to make over 150 Garfield bookmarks, and I had all of them. They were on a door in my room, just hanging there. Where other people might have a poster of Farah Fawcett or something, I had a door full of bookmarks.
I collected Star Wars toys and figures from when they first came out for Christmas 1977 (yes, I saved the proof of purchases for the Boba Fett figure) through the ones from the Empire Strikes Back. By that time I was buying my own - that and Atari games. My parents told me that I was too old for action figures, and I shouldn't buy the Return of the Jedi figures and toys, so I missed out on having a collection of Ewoks.
Of course a few years later I had a large collection of Star Trek: The Next Generation action figures. I fell right back into it. Unfortunately I really had no place to display all of it after my parent's changed houses and I lived in the dorms and in apartments in college. I ended up also picking up many of the DC comic character figures too. The Star Wars ones eventually got old off to pay for tuition one semester, but the Star Trek and DC figures still take up a large spot in the storage shed I rent with my parents. There's really no place to put them here at the house.
I never really collected movies, I don't watch them over and over, so it didn't become a big deal to buy them. The formats keep changing too, so what's the use? I don't really collect music as I just keep adding to what I've got to feed my interest. iTunes is like a big music Katamari.
I do still buy comic books, and over the last 25 years I have quite a stash, but I wouldn't say that I really collect them anymore. The oldest are nicely put away, stacked, bagged and even backed. after a while I didn't really see the point in doing it, so I don't take as much care with them now. I'm sure those who are serious would be appalled at the stacks i have in the back of closets and in the storage shed, but really, most of them I'll never read again, and aren't really worth much. unlike some guys, I was never going to send anyone to college on the basis of my collections. I just like to read!
So there we go. Maybe I just don't need any crazy thing right now. I should save my money for something better.
I'm thinking with my upcoming birthday and my big trip into middle age (not the middle ages, that's what Renaissance Fairs are for), I probably need to go buy something expensive, silly, and something I'll possibly regret.
No, not that...I bought that last month, and frankly, I love it. No buyer's remorse there.
No. I really can't afford some shiny new sports car, or a motorcycle, or even a Segway (now that would be stupid). I know Chris wants a water-bike again, but that's Chris' thing not mine. We'll see about that in a few years. I don't need any new electronics or home theater or Playstation.
I guess it comes down to the other compensations for age...tattoos, piercings or leather. Hmm. I've never gotten a tattoo because I never found anything I wanted to have all the time on me (the extra weight was enough). Thank goodness I decided not to get the frat letters. I love my frat, but i don't need their letters on my ass.
Piercings make me squeamish and I don't know how well I'd heal after something like that. Love the look on some of you other boys, but I'm not sure it's me. Leather interests me, but I hate having to order the extra cow to cover me. It's expensive stuff that I would hardly wear, like my overalls or Utilikilt.
I find it interesting that I don't really collect anything anymore. i used to be a big collector, with probably my strangest collection being the Garfield Bookmarks. Remember when Garfield was funny? Yeah, in that couple of hours they managed to make over 150 Garfield bookmarks, and I had all of them. They were on a door in my room, just hanging there. Where other people might have a poster of Farah Fawcett or something, I had a door full of bookmarks.
I collected Star Wars toys and figures from when they first came out for Christmas 1977 (yes, I saved the proof of purchases for the Boba Fett figure) through the ones from the Empire Strikes Back. By that time I was buying my own - that and Atari games. My parents told me that I was too old for action figures, and I shouldn't buy the Return of the Jedi figures and toys, so I missed out on having a collection of Ewoks.
Of course a few years later I had a large collection of Star Trek: The Next Generation action figures. I fell right back into it. Unfortunately I really had no place to display all of it after my parent's changed houses and I lived in the dorms and in apartments in college. I ended up also picking up many of the DC comic character figures too. The Star Wars ones eventually got old off to pay for tuition one semester, but the Star Trek and DC figures still take up a large spot in the storage shed I rent with my parents. There's really no place to put them here at the house.
I never really collected movies, I don't watch them over and over, so it didn't become a big deal to buy them. The formats keep changing too, so what's the use? I don't really collect music as I just keep adding to what I've got to feed my interest. iTunes is like a big music Katamari.
I do still buy comic books, and over the last 25 years I have quite a stash, but I wouldn't say that I really collect them anymore. The oldest are nicely put away, stacked, bagged and even backed. after a while I didn't really see the point in doing it, so I don't take as much care with them now. I'm sure those who are serious would be appalled at the stacks i have in the back of closets and in the storage shed, but really, most of them I'll never read again, and aren't really worth much. unlike some guys, I was never going to send anyone to college on the basis of my collections. I just like to read!
So there we go. Maybe I just don't need any crazy thing right now. I should save my money for something better.
