Memorial Day

Do you remember when the Memorial Day Parade was cool? You were probably like six or seven years old. You thought fire trucks were cool, and old men with fake rifles were awesome. You got excited about the senior citizens on goofy cars with funny fez hats and thought they were entertaining. You thought beating up 3 and 4 year olds for candy thrown on the ground was a healthy passtime. At this time of year so much is said about remembering the soldiers (and now its trendy to remember policemen and firemen) who gave their lives in service to our country. So i, in my true blog form, will completely ignore that and try to remember something else. Remember Pirate's Cove? It was an awesome pic-a-path text game for the commodore 64. You had put the cartridge in and then type a ton of text lines to ever get the graphics or sound to work. Then it would ask you questions and you had to answer them. You had to PICK YOUR PATH. Man, that was awesome. You would wait 2 or three minutes for each question to load after it gave you several lines of story to read. You would read and read and read. After reading, you had to PICK YOUR PATH. That was awesome. So on this Memorial Day, try not to only think of dead servicemen. Remember pic-a-path text games too. Because they were cool.