I am all over the map here tonight.  So if you want to bail… Do it now.

First. I will try not to drone about my Geekhood…. But here it is.

Today, I found a couple of old hard drives.  I was cleaning some things out of my office for a charity garage sale, and happened upon them.  Now…  not only am I a Geek, but I am slightly obsessive compulsive in certain areas of my life.

I like things to be put away.  In their place.  Neat and tidy.  On top of this, I am compelled to label boxes and such… which store the things… which are put away…  .. so ever neat and tidy.

Back to the hard drives.  On the outside of the box, I marked:  “Hard Drives, Dell Dimension / Windows, 2006.”  And then in parentheses… “Huge Hard Drives!”

They were 8 GB capacity.  Now this is funny to a geek.  You see… earlier in the day… I was on my way somewhere and needed to grab a thumb drive.  So I popped into a pharmacy and bought a 64 GB USB drive for a little bit of nothing.

The hard drives I found in my office were as big as four-slice-toasters.   And I bet I paid a small fortune for an eighth of the  capacity.  Are you rolling on the floor laughing right now… Like I WAS?  Okay… So you probably don’t wear pocket protectors either.

At any rate… I was getting ready to take the Drives out to the garage and put the sledge hammer to them.  But then I decided to try to hook one up to my Mac… and see what I could see.   Much to my surprise, I found some photos.  Well.. Lots of photos.

I haven’t looked at all of them.  Not even close.  But I randomly shuffled through.  This I will tell you.  It was like finding a sunken ship filled with gold doubloons.   Since then, I have been exploring them and …..  remembering and …. traveling back in time.

But THEN.. It HIT me.  Oh no!  It is Thursday.  I don’t want to do this …. on what the world had deemed “Throwback Thursdays.”

(OK.  Now I will digress.  I don’t like Throwback Thursdays because I don’t understand the terminology.  The only Throwback I know… Is when someone is fishing and they throwback the fish.  It has nothing to do with going back in time… That I can figure, at least.)

I think they should be called Travel-Back Tuesdays.  Or… What the Heck Wednesdays…. Or Memory-Maze Monday.  But not “Put Your Fish Back in the Lake” Thursday.

Anyway… I have had fun revisiting these times…  through these images.  It reminds me of all the years… with those who are….. always…. always… like treasures in my heart.

And I can assure you.  I will never… throw them back.

“There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart…pursue those.” – Michael Nolan

“Cherish the ones you love.”  – Yep