GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY THREAD WELCOME.TO JANUARY 1ST THROUGH JANUARY 31ST 2026

[TootsieFootsie]

One New Years Eve was the fastest I've ever moved in my life.

Spent with friends who gave me a lift home.

It was only a few minutes drive. I really could have walked it but my friends insisted.

My heart sank when I saw the only seat left in the car, next to the only person in the group who I would have avoided if I could.

I was sitting there saying my goodbye to my friends, we'd just pulled up outside my house when out of the corner of my eye I could see these horrible lips aiming for my cheek,

I jumped out like the devil himself was after me. So those awful lips never made contact

There was fallout from what I did.
This person had loaned my friends money which he demanded back the very next day.

Also they told me he complained that I "let him shout me drinks all night"
Which was not true, he shouted everyone alcoholic drinks, well really just filled the jugs up.

I bought my own soft drinks in a bottle.

Another friend suggested I put some money in an envelope to give to him.
I gave it to my friends who dropped it in his letterbox. I had no idea where he lived.

On the note I wrote "this is payment for the drinks"

All these years later I'm glad I I took my friends advice re the money, it wasn't for the creep, it was for me and it made me feel like I'd done all I could. It put an end to the incident in my mind.

All other New Years were just the usual.

 

[Mo Thuairim]

Wrong thread again. Sorry! Happy new year

 

[waitin'4thewrld2chg]

2001. NYE Singles Dance. Middle of frigid winter. Low on fuel, tall boots, short skirt, cardigan not made for warmth.

Got lost which should have been my sign to just go the hell home.

But I persisted.

Found the venue, found the dance floor.

Counting me there were eight singles total. And none touching my decade.

I didn't have the heart to kill the robust party by 1/8 so I stayed. To be polite, I suppose. Or to put off the 60 miles drive home, on an 1/8 of a tank, the fraction of the night.

Found a gas station in the middle of frozen nowhere, had to enlist a stranger for help, because that's safe, and continued on my way, only to be stopped by LE on the inskirts of my hometown, not by one squad car but three. Boxed in. LEO approaches, "Ma'am, have you been drinking tonight?" No, Sir, but considering my night, I probably should have been.

I guess someone called me in for crossing the fog lines. Which I was doing on purpose, to stay awake! Rumble strips.

No worries, Officers, I'm WIDE AWAKE now.

But i think we were all agreed -- I should have stayed home.

I always love your writing, @Megnut.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

My Mum's confirmation

Need to click on the small image

 

[LetsSolvIt]

My Mum's confirmation

Need to click on the small image

This is so sweet!

 

[tricia]

WOW. I didn't announce Friday, January 2nd, so I guess it never happened. YIKES. My apologies.

GIVE US THIS DAY, OUR DAILY THREAD SATURDAY, JANUARY 3RD 2026​

Today in history:
1959 – Alaska officially becomes the 49th U.S. state.
Yes, it’s huge. Yes, it’s cold. Yes, people still forget it exists.


1983 – Apple introduces the Lisa, one of the first personal computers with a graphical user interface.
It was revolutionary… and wildly expensive. (Basically the luxury tech flop before luxury tech was cool.)


1777 – George Washington wins the Battle of Princeton, a major morale boost during the American Revolutionary War.
History reminder: the Revolution was not neat, quick, or tidy.


1904 – The New York City subway officially opens.
Finally, New Yorkers could be late underground instead of just on the street.


Weird but true – On this day in 1961, the U.S. severed diplomatic relations with Cuba.
Politics, grudges, and frozen tensions — a very January kind of move.

I remember the "Lisa." We may have bought one.
Do you remember your first computer?

 

[TootsieFootsie]

I do remember my first computer.
I was so excited to get it.

It was Windows 3.1.

I could see a world of information opening up for me,

Before that we had an Amstrad games computer which we loved.

An elderly man I knew said that I had "more money than sense" for buying it.

Another said that my brain would stop working because the computer would "do all the thinking for you"

 

[iamshadow21]

WOW. I didn't announce Friday, January 2nd, so I guess it never happened. YIKES. My apologies.

GIVE US THIS DAY, OUR DAILY THREAD SATURDAY, JANUARY 3RD 2026​

Today in history:
1959 – Alaska officially becomes the 49th U.S. state.
Yes, it’s huge. Yes, it’s cold. Yes, people still forget it exists.


1983 – Apple introduces the Lisa, one of the first personal computers with a graphical user interface.
It was revolutionary… and wildly expensive. (Basically the luxury tech flop before luxury tech was cool.)


1777 – George Washington wins the Battle of Princeton, a major morale boost during the American Revolutionary War.
History reminder: the Revolution was not neat, quick, or tidy.


1904 – The New York City subway officially opens.
Finally, New Yorkers could be late underground instead of just on the street.


Weird but true – On this day in 1961, the U.S. severed diplomatic relations with Cuba.
Politics, grudges, and frozen tensions — a very January kind of move.

I remember the "Lisa." We may have bought one.
Do you remember your first computer?

Mine was a Sorcerer!

Exidy Sorcerer - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[TootsieFootsie]

We got our Amstrad in 1980.

 

[Megnut]

I hope no one will fail to give Pong proper credit.

All the history you cutie ever want and more https://www.britannica.com/topic/electronic-game

I'm a little bummed I never knew about Hunt the Wumpus.

 

[mickey2942]

I've spent many nights sleeping in the gutters of Pasadena, waiting for the parade.

Haha, we went one year, 1982, it was so cold we went back to our camper and watched it on the tiny screen.

2000, I was in Las Vegas. We had SO much fun. And had to get to the airport by 530 to catch our flight. I was dead. Slept thru the entire flight.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

My first computer was a Compaq, bought in 1992.
I paid $1400 for it, which was a lot at the time.

 

[killarney rose]

I remember my friend shopping for a computer in Walmart in the mid 1990s. She bought the components separately and paid $1600 for the desktop. Later I got my first computer in the early 2000s. It was a Black Friday special from Walmart that DH got me for Christmas. I think it had windows XP on it. I spent lots of time on Napster then audio galaxy downloading music and still have the mp3 cds I made from those downloads.

 

[nhmemorymaker]

WOW. I didn't announce Friday, January 2nd, so I guess it never happened. YIKES. My apologies.

GIVE US THIS DAY, OUR DAILY THREAD SATURDAY, JANUARY 3RD 2026​

Today in history:
1959 – Alaska officially becomes the 49th U.S. state.
Yes, it’s huge. Yes, it’s cold. Yes, people still forget it exists.


1983 – Apple introduces the Lisa, one of the first personal computers with a graphical user interface.
It was revolutionary… and wildly expensive. (Basically the luxury tech flop before luxury tech was cool.)


1777 – George Washington wins the Battle of Princeton, a major morale boost during the American Revolutionary War.
History reminder: the Revolution was not neat, quick, or tidy.


1904 – The New York City subway officially opens.
Finally, New Yorkers could be late underground instead of just on the street.


Weird but true – On this day in 1961, the U.S. severed diplomatic relations with Cuba.
Politics, grudges, and frozen tensions — a very January kind of move.

I remember the "Lisa." We may have bought one.
Do you remember your first computer?

The Lisa was only a FIRST--given its graphical user interface....

There were plenty of successful earlier FIRSTS...
The "Trinity" of 1977 (Mass-Market Success):

• Apple II: User-friendly with color graphics, became a household staple.
• Commodore PET (Personal Electronic Transactor): Integrated monitor, keyboard, and cassette drive.
• Tandy TRS-80 (Model I): Popularized home computing through Radio Shack stores.

I worked in high tech all through the mid-70s--2010...
So I now feel like I really was a part of that huge wheel turning!! Though just a cog, being with top industry leaders was really such a fun ride.
I worked for Digital Equipment--#2 only behind IBM back then. The president of Digital was a very famous man..cover of Time Magazine etc etc.... and one of his most famous quotes was "Who needs a personal computer on their desk". He was making the point--that everyone should just use the 'cloud" (back then, no cloud perse, but having a dumb terminal on your desk was linked to these powerful mainframes)---and yet that is now what we do have--the big cloud).
Digital was eventually bought out by compaq and then Hewlett Packard....so that "personal computer" quote probably had something to do with the slow death we all had to experience. But we were also 'one of the top 10 companies to work for in the 70s and 80s and into the 90s..... so soooo many of us still feel the bond we all had while working there. We are reverently referred to as Deckies.

whew that was a long and windy post!
See how much nostalgia this new daily thread brings us???

 

[Onlyguessing23]

Mine was a Gateway. Probably ‘93. It arrived in those spotted cow boxes.

 

[Megnut]

It pains me that the young among us have never had to save anything on a floppy disk.

 

[Megnut]

Or that a printer with ink costs about $40.

When I went to college, the whole college had five printers. In the printer lab. Bring your floppy disk, wait to print. Tear off the perforation thread.

Crazy to think my own life arced from the Atari 2600 to the 286 to a desktop PC, and now our phones hold more data than all of them.

Still, I pity the young fools who don't have to stake their knowledge on an incomplete set of outdated Encyclopedia Britannicas.

We lost our "I" so please don't ask me what know about Ireland, Italy, or Iceland.

 

[Gemmie]

Or that a printer with ink costs about $40.

When I went to college, the whole college had five printers. In the printer lab. Bring your floppy disk, wait to print. Tear off the perforation thread.

Crazy to think my own life arced from the Atari 2600 to the 286 to a desktop PC, and now our phones hold more data than all of them.

Still, I pity the young fools who don't have to stake their knowledge on an incomplete set of outdated Encyclopedia Britannicas.

We lost our "I" so please don't ask me what know about Ireland, Italy, or Iceland.

Printer ink costs double that as I just bought a cartridge for $80. I was reimbursed for it arriving late but that's a whole nuther story.

 

[mickey2942]

My first computer was a Compaq, bought in 1992.
I paid $1400 for it, which was a lot at the time.

I remember doing programs on computers with punch cards, 1980. We had a machine to make the punch cards, and you made the program, and put the punch cards in the computer. LOL.

 

[charminglane]

I remember doing programs on computers with punch cards, 1980. We had a machine to make the punch cards, and you made the program, and put the punch cards in the computer. LOL.

My parents have a case of the cards from ARCO.
They use them as mailing labels with tape!