So, me and video games, we go back a ways. Two things were under every tree that following Christmas of '77, Star Wars toys and and a brand new Atari game system. In 1977, at the perfect age of 9 we got Star Wars in May and then in September, we got the release of the Atari 2600. I never really considered myself a video game collector until that 'Holy Cow' moment when i walked down the stairs and saw just how many games we have in the house. I keep my collections either out on shelves or neatly stored away and intact. Thankfully, I'm far away from being featured on an episode of Hoarders. Me? As many of you readers know, I'm a collector, an accumulator. When I sent the photo to my daughter, her reply was, 'That's crazy! You have so many…get rid of them! You can't possibly play all of them anymore.' That's the practical side of the family speaking for sure. The games stayed that way for several weeks as my sons and I tried to play through some of them that have been left alone for quite some time. One of my sons decided to take out every single video game we had from all of our systems acquired over the years and lay them out on the floor.

I couldn't get all of the games in one shot. This is only a portion of my basement floor. For instance, one day I walked down the stairs to the basement rec room and found this: Still, we found plenty of interesting things to keep us busy. But you can't bake bread without yeast and, as some of you may have experienced, there was no yeast to be found back then. When I send an email out at work to my friends and colleagues that I've brought in some of Diane's baked treats a line forms out my door. We never dove into the whole baking bread thing in this house for example.

For most of us, the early months at home brought with them some interesting developments. It goes without saying that all sorts of strange things have been happening over the last 6 months of this pandemic. As always, I hope you are all safe and healthy out there.

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