{"id":867,"date":"2016-04-12T23:22:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/?p=867"},"modified":"2021-06-18T02:22:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T20:22:38","slug":"its-never-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/?p=867","title":{"rendered":"IT’S NEVER TOO LATE"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well, there goes another two months.\u00a0 I cannot believe how busy I have been.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>\"Scott<\/span><\/strong> The new job has been exciting<\/span><\/strong> but my down time has been either precious or precious little.\u00a0 I had to take a sick day today because I was getting run\u00a0 down and whatever flu like illness that was going through our office caught up with me today.\u00a0 I’m not sure how much of this blahg I’ll get written today because I’m supposed to be resting but the temptation of the available time to write this blahg is getting to me like this flu.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I thought the title of this blahg being It’s Never Too Late would inspire me greatly but it’s really a catch-all to inspire me to write a blahg as much as it is to inspire my readers to read this.\u00a0 Hey readers, how you doing?\u00a0 I always ask the question if I have readers and I never take the time to assume I do have readers and should just acknowledge them and ask how it’s going with them.\u00a0 Again I ask, hey readers, how you doing?\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now that the pleasantries are out of the way, I want to tell another one my based on my own life stories.\u00a0 I know how you all love those.\u00a0 Way back in 1979 I was, and still am, a fan of the Micronauts.\u00a0 At first it was the comics even though I had a vague awareness that there was a toy line on which the comics were based.\u00a0 I didn’t own any but when the 1979 Sears Christmas catalogue came out, I became fascinated with an item in the catalogue.\u00a0 \"Micronauts<\/a>The item was the Micronauts Rocket Tubes.\u00a0 Here’s the details of that add:\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The transportation system of the future.\u00a0 Micronauts are propelled on a smooth, silent cushion of air.\u00a0 Includes 15′ of microtube which makes several fantastic layouts such as a 10 1\/2″ vertical shaft or a 6′ x 20″ continuous oval loops.\u00a0 With 2 cargo vehicles and 2 special Microanuts.\u00a0 Wall power pack.<\/em><\/h4>\n

The price was only $59.99 but it might as well have been a million dollars because I was 17 and had no job and no savings.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If you think that wanting something and not having the money for it deterred me then you’d be wrong.\u00a0 It was, after all, a Christmas catalogue, so I thought maybe I could ask for it for Christmas.\u00a0 My Mother said no.\u00a0 I offered to pay half toward the cost even though I didn’t have the half.\u00a0 My Mother said no.\u00a0 That was the end of my dream until 37 years later.\u00a0 Now that I’m working again and have some disposable cash, I thought it was time to revisit that dream.\u00a0 Before I tell you about that version of my narrative, check out this original video for the Micronauts Rocket Tubes:\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong>
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